Weekly cases of COVID-19 continue to decline, as new cases and hospitalizations decline, according to CDC tracking. One of the longest-standing orders in the United States has now been removed, from the Navajo Nation. President Biden is said to have chosen the man who ran his administration to fill the top role of White House chief of staff.
President Biden is expected to name Jeff Zients, who led the response to the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of Biden’s term, as his next chief of staff, the Associated Press and other sources are reporting, citing anonymous sources. Biden’s top aide, Ron Klain, is stepping down in the coming weeks. Since taking over as the coordinator of the COVID-19 response, Zients has returned to the White House on a low profile to work on the administration for the rest of Biden’s term.
FDA’s advisory board meets on future treatments for the COVID-19 vaccine
The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee will meet this week to discuss future vaccines against COVID-19. A public meeting will be held on Thursday at 8:30 a.m. The committee will consider “if and how the structure of the COVID-19 vaccine should be changed and how the structure and schedule of additional doses should be changed. It will be changed moving forward.” Along with the independent experts of the advisory committee, representatives from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health will also participate in the meeting.
Berkeley salvage yard not only survives but thrives on plague
Urban Ore’s salvage yard in Berkeley, which has lines of vintage clothing, antiques and well-loved wooden furniture, looked early on in the pandemic as if it might struggle to survive as its sales began. But something unexpected happened, the store was able to break sales records for the next few years. Read more about how the unusual space became afloat and developed.
Navajo Nation can now be free
The Navajo Nation has repealed the mask law that has been in effect since the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, fulfilling a promise that the tribe’s new President Buu Nygren made while running for office. The authority was one of the longest in the world in the US and was widely used for businesses, government offices and tourist attractions in the area, which extends into New Mexico, Utah and Arizona. The tribe once had the highest risk of coronavirus in the country and the most stringent measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Nygren and Navajo Nation Council Delegate Otto Tso, who oversees the tribe’s legislative branch, jointly announced the mask’s removal on television Friday evening. He cited statistics from health officials that show there is a low risk of infection, based on a seven-day rate of 51 cases per 100,000 people.
Japan to ease the burden of COVID-19, which is helping to ease restrictions
Japan is downgrading the form of COVID-19 in the next three months to a Class 5 disease, which is similar to seasonal flu, according to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. The government will also review measures to prevent epidemics such as wearing a mask, Voice of America reports. Speaking to reporters on Friday, Kishida said he told officials to review the requirements for re-establishing the COVID-19 team, as well as review restrictions that have been in place for nearly three years. Japan currently classifies COVID-19 as a Class 2 infectious disease, like tuberculosis and acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS.
This situation allows the government to take measures to prevent the spread, such as restricting the movement of infected people and their contacts. Declassification would play a major role in the establishment of social and economic services in Japan, and would allow visitors to enter Japan without a PCR test or self-quarantine.
The US is seeing relief as cases, hospitalizations and deaths fall
The seven-day average of new cases of COVID-19 in the US fell by 23.9% compared to last week’s average, down to 47,459 from 62,397, according to figures updated on Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Average daily hospitalizations also fell by 16.4% to 5,014 from the previous week’s average of 5,997. After counting the number of people who have died from COVID-19 since the end of August last week, confirming that the death of COVID-19 also shows signs of decrease with a daily number of 565 which shows an improvement of 6.1% over the previous average of 601. Still good , health. The agency’s weekly report shows the spread of the most common fall viruses — the flu, the syncytial virus and COVID — is dropping rapidly, with emergency room visits following suit.
