Younger people seem to be contracting more transmissible variants, causing another COVID-19 surge in Michigan

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• As vaccine frustrations continue, providers boost efforts to help residents book appointments Jadhira Sanchez, Senior Manager of Community Health with ENLACE Chicago, said finding vaccinations is harder for those outside the Protect Chicago Plus program. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-TimesAfter wide-scale concerns about the signup process, Illinois vaccination providers and community groups say they are helping residents overcome language, technology and other barriers.  As residents across the state describe a nightmare scenario of searching to get vaccine appointments online, several providers and local groups say they are taking steps to help the most vulnerable…
• 2,839 new COVID-19 cases in Illinois as Cook County enters ‘the beginning of another surge’ Dr. Rachel Rubin, co-lead and senior medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health, has warned that the Chicago area is already facing another COVID-19 surge. | Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-TimesThe state is vaccinating more and more people each day, but coronavirus cases have trended sharply upward over the past month, especially among young people. A troubling rise in COVID-19 cases across the Chicago area and the rest of Illinois means another coronavirus “clamp-down” could be in store for…
• L.A. County hospitalizations dip below 600 for first time since early days of pandemic Offering increasing evidence that the pandemic is loosening its grip on the region, Los Angeles County dipped below 600 coronavirus-related hospitalizations for the first time since March 2020, state public health officials announced Friday, April 2. According to the California COVID-19 dashboard, which generally updates a day earlier than the county’s metrics, 596 people with COVID-19 were hospitalized as of Thursday, 159 of them in intensive care. Meanwhile, county officials said they would respond with their own timelines after the…
• Europe ramps up vaccinations as virus haunts Easter holidays The main stadium in the French city of Lyon opened as a mass vaccination center during Easter weekend, and thousands of people spent the holiday lining up for injections elsewhere in France as the government tried to speed up shots amid a new rush of coronavirus cases. But as Europe faced its second Easter in a row under the cloud of the pandemic, some French cities pushed back against President Emmanuel Macron’s insistence that “there are no weekends or days…
• THE RISE OF GENETIC TESTING IN HEALTHCARE: How leading genetic testing companies like Ancestry and 23andMe are carving into healthcare with the promise to fuel more personalized care Summary List Placement Insider Intelligence publishes thousands of research reports, charts, and forecasts on the Digital Health industry. You can learn more about becoming a client here. The following is a preview of one Digital Health report, The Genetic Testing in Healthcare Report. You can purchase this report here. Since the first human genome was sequenced in 2003, the genetic testing market has evolved rapidly alongside consumers' interest in how their genetic makeup affects their health. The human genome was sequenced…
• Justin Bieber’s mom on his latest tattoo: ‘don’t you have enough yet?’ View this post on Instagram A post shared by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) Justin Bieber has a new album out called Justice. The album dropped to some mixed reactions for using quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr., but Justin ultimately earned The King’s Center stamp of approval. Which is more than Justin got from his own mom on his latest art. On Sunday, Justin posted the IG above to his Instagram, of him receiving his latest tattoo, a peach, on his…
• The Latest: Virus cases rise in southwestern Chinese city By The Associated Press BEIJING — COVID-19 cases in the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili bordering on Myanmar have now topped 100. That comes as authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city, whose outbreak is something of an anomaly in a country that has all-but eliminated local transmission of the virus. The National Health Commission reported an additional 20 cases on Monday, five of them in which the persons showed no symptoms. The…
• The Latest: Virus cases rise in southwestern Chinese city By The Associated Press BEIJING — COVID-19 cases in the southwestern Chinese city of Ruili bordering on Myanmar have now topped 100. That comes as authorities have launched an aggressive campaign to vaccinate all 300,000 residents of the city, whose outbreak is something of an anomaly in a country that has all-but eliminated local transmission of the virus. The National Health Commission reported an additional 20 cases on Monday, five of them in which the persons showed no symptoms. The…
• The Latest: Bangladesh enforces weeklong virus lockdown DHAKA, Bangladesh — Bangladesh began enforcing a weeklong nationwide lockdown Monday, shutting shopping malls and transportation as authorities try to stop a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths. The decision came after health authorities said that they were facing overwhelming pressure in intensive care units in recent weeks because of severe infections. This is the second time the South Asian nation has enforced a virus lockdown after the first last March. On Monday, authorities suspended operations of all domestic flights,…