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A 17-year-old girl training with her twin sister for the Pennsylvania Army National Guard died after collapsing during an exercise, according to local news outlets. The 1st Battalion 34th Infantry Regiment confirmed the death of PFC Alyssa Cahoon in a Facebook statement, saying she died Thursday "with her family by her bedside." The regiment did not provide further details about her death. According to local station WLTX, Cahoon collapsed on Aug. 20 during a physical training exercise at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. She was taken to the hospital where she died five days later. Fort Jackson did not immediately...

White House pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has returned to public duties following his own bout with COVID-19, and is warning that the country could face a new viral surge due to 'waning immunity.' On Tuesday, two weeks after his last public appearance in late June, Fauci appeared on MSNBC and joined a White House press briefing by videoconference to warn about the spread of the BA.5 variant, a subvariant of the Omicron strain. He called on Americans to get vaccine booster shots, and said health officials are now 'recommending' people return to wearing masks in indoor group settings. Fauci,...

Dr. SarahBeth Hartlage pushed Covid Vaccines aggressively. She died mysteriously this weekend. VIDEOS AT LINK.................... Media is not asking questions about her death… https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/2022/03/18/dr-sarahbeth-hartlage-who-led-louisvilles-covid-vaccine-effort-dies/7090533001/

Former President Barack Obama announced Sunday he tested positive for COVID-19. "I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise. This story is breaking and will be updated.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) disclosed Tuesday that he tested positive for COVID-19, becoming the latest member of Congress to contract the virus despite being vaccinated. Hoyer, the second-ranking House Democrat, said in a statement that he is experiencing mild symptoms. He added that he will work and cast votes remotely while the House is in session this week.

Democratic New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Lujan was hospitalized on Thursday, Jan. 27 due to a stroke, a top aide announced.

First signs of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, surfaced in Wuhan, Dec. 12, 2019. By December 2020, COVID-19 had reached every continent on the planet after the first cases were detected on Antarctica. Through entire COVID-19 endemic and pandemic, the remote island nation of Kiribati had managed to not have a single case of COVID-19 until Jan. 19, 2022. Kiribati is an isolated island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean with a population of roughly 122,000. Kiribati closed its borders 10 months ago, then reopened the country this month. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints chartered a...

Many people who are vaccinated, boosted and had COVID before are getting it again — and they are furious. They no longer believe the doctors or the president. Several of my patients have come to me (via televisit) feeling I let them down by pushing them to get the vaccine and then the booster only to find themselves sick with Omicron. What can I tell them?

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, announced Tuesday that she has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.

Savannah Guthrie has tested positive for a breakthrough case of COVID-19 — more than a week after her 50th birthday party. -snip- Guthrie’s diagnosis comes after her husband, Michael Feldman, threw her a belated birthday bash on New Years’ Eve — despite the rise of coronavirus cases in New York. A source close to Guthrie, who turned 50 on Dec. 27, and Feldman, 53, exclusively told Page Six at the time that the two were planning on going “above and beyond” to follow COVID-19 protocols. We’re told only 60 people were invited, including family members, close friends and some colleagues...

Multiple sources connected to the iconic comedian and actor -- most famous for his starring role as Danny Tanner in 'Full House' -- tell us he passed away Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando. The Sheriff's Department and the fire department responded to the hotel around 4 PM ET ... after hotel security had found Bob in his room. We're told he was pronounced dead on the scene, but the circumstances of his death are still unclear.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he would not recommend the fully vaccinated go to restaurants during the Omicron surge of COVID. Anchor Dana Bash asked, “How should vaccinated and boosted people behave? Can they go into a restaurant, eat safely indoors right now?” Fauci said, “You know, when you’re having such a — I call it a tsunami of infections, Dana, we are seeing people who are vaccinated and boosted who are getting breakthrough infections. So when you’re in a situation where you have so...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Amid the spread of omicron and increased holiday gatherings and travel, the number of new COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County jumped to nearly 10,000 on Friday - the highest number in 11 months. The 9,988 new cases represents the first time since the vaccine has been publicly available that the number of daily new infections has neared the 10,000 mark. The last time it was that high was in January 2021. It represents a 20-fold increase in one month, since the number of new cases dipped below 500 in late November according to county data.

Over 100 flights that were scheduled for Christmas Eve have been canceled by United Airlines as the company grapples with the spread of the omicron variant, the airline confirmed on Thursday. A spokesperson for United said that "we’re seeing about 120 cancellations planned for Friday."

CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday he’s tested positive for Covid and isolating at home with a mild case. “I have Covid. I came down with Covid on Thursday night,” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” He added he’s been triple vaccinated: two shots of Moderna and a Moderna booster. “I know exactly how I got it,” he said. “I was at an event where you had to have PCR [tests].” “I got it that night from someone who was tested that day,” he said. “The problem is it works so fast. You can’t stop it. Cramer said his wife...

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday, becoming the latest high-ranking individual in the political world to come down with a breakthrough infection amid a nationwide surge in cases. Hogan wrote on Twitter Monday morning that he received a positive rapid test for COVID-19 during his “regular testing routine.” He said he is vaccinated and received a booster shot and is “feeling fine at the moment.” The governor also encouraged individuals to get vaccinated or receive the booster shot “as soon as possible” as the omicron strain “becomes more dominant.”

NEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey Senator Cory Booker has tested positive for COVID, he said on Sunday.In a statement, Booker said he first started feeling symptoms on Saturday, and his symptoms are relatively mild.

I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case,' Warren wrote. 'Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms & am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.' In April 2020 Warren announced that her brother, Don Reed Herring, had died of the virus.

CNN is closing its offices to employees who do not need to work in person. In an internal memo to employees on Saturday and obtained by The Hill, President Jeff Zucker said the move was being made "out of an abundance of caution," and is tied to a new wave of coronavirus infections sweeping the nation. The decision to scale back in-person work "will also protect those who will be in the office by minimizing the number of people who are there," the network said.

Instead of lining up to see Santa or waiting to buy Christmas gifts, New Yorkers stood for hours Saturday to get COVID-19 tests as cases continued to surge. Residents fumed as they waited for the nasal swabs in order to travel or because they thought they might have the virus. At a city-run testing and vaccination center in Times Square on Saturday afternoon, the wait was about three hours. “I’m cold and frustrated. We are in such a big city, there should be more options available,” said Alessandra Abate, 29, a graduate student from Dumbo who had been in line...