The sector has seen thousands of deaths since the pandemic began and the arrival of the highly contagious Omicron variant late last year raised fears of further devastation.
Health officials say there are 49 people in hospital today receiving specialized care in a designated COVID-19 unit, a drop of four patients from Tuesday.
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For centuries, people have feared being judged for stuttering, a condition often misunderstood as a psychological problem caused by things like bad parenting or emotional trauma. But research presented at a science conference on Saturday explores its biological underpinnings: genetics and brain differences.
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Omicron spreads so quickly that it is no longer feasible to use individual testing to track how many people are infected in a population. And that means we no longer have the basic information we need to inform public health mitigation policies. New strategies for keeping tabs on the virus are needed.
Partners in Health confirmed Farmer's death Monday. The Boston-based organization said Farmer "unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda,'' where he had been teaching.
