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Singapore Gives Up Goal of Covid-Zero Despite High Vaccination Rate
Singapore has decided to give up on the dream of covid-zero and will instead learn to “live with the virus,” according to the country’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday. The decision comes despite the fact that Singapore has one of the highest covid-19 vaccination rates in the world, with 80% of the adult…
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Hawaii Asks Tourists to Delay Holidays Until November as Covid-19 Cases Soar
Hawaii Gov. David Ige is asking tourists to stay home and delay any holiday plans in the region until at least November as the state’s covid-19 case numbers soar. Hawaii is averaging about 650 new cases a day, a troubling uptick from a month ago when the state was averaging just 138 cases per day.
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Hospitalisations Rare Among Vaccinated and More Survivable When They Happen, Study Finds
Recent preliminary research from India may offer some more good news for people who have gotten covid-19 vaccines, even in the face of the more virulent Delta variant. The study found that fully vaccinated people who ended up hospitalised — itself a rare risk among the vaccinated — still had a lower chance of becoming…
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If You’re Immunocompromised, You May Need a Covid-19 Vaccine Booster, Fauci Says
President Joe Biden’s chief medical advisor Anthony Fauci now says that vaccinated Americans with compromised immune systems may end up needing a covid-19 vaccine booster shot after all. The news comes as the country’s number of covid-19 cases continues to rise, fuelled by plateauing vaccination rates and the emergence of the ultra-transmissible Delta variant.