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With coronavirus cases rising in parts of Europe and Asia, scientists worry that an extra-contagious version of the omicron variant may soon push cases up in the United States too.
 

The new omicron sub-variant, BA.2 is causing cases to go up in several European countries, and many are wondering if the United States will see another surge in the coming weeks.
 

Conspiracy theories around COVID-19 and an ever-widening political divide led to a terrifying uptick in harassment against America's public health workers, new research finds.
A study by BSPH researchers is cited. 

Scarcely two months after the Omicron variant drove coronavirus case numbers to frightening heights in the United States, scientists and health officials are bracing for another swell in the pandemic and, with it, the first major test of the country’s strategy of living with the virus while limiting its impact.
Jennifer Nuzzo and David Dowdy are quoted. 

While protection against mild illness waned over time, the mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech provided a robust shield against the worst outcomes.
 

Local health officials handling the day-to-day response to the coronavirus crisis have faced hostility like never before in their communities.

Differences between the U.S. and European nations in variant levels, previous infections, and pandemic policy could keep our case rates on a different track.
 

COVID-19 vaccination rates were lower in Ukraine than in many other countries before the war began, putting many people at risk for contracting and transmitting the virus.
 

Young children in the United States were hospitalized at much higher rates this winter as omicron became the dominant variant than they were during the delta surge, according to a new report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

Covid cases are dropping in the U.S. and mask mandates are being repealed all over. Yet over a third of the wastewater sample sites across the U.S. showed rising Covid-19 levels in the first 10 days of March. So is Covid going away or not?
 

The situation in Europe has the attention of public health officials for two reasons: First, the UK offers a preview of what may play out in the United States, and second, something unusual seems to be happening.
 

As a medical anthropologist working in health security for decades, I can tell you it has a name, “panic and neglect.” Decision-makers wake up during a catastrophic outbreak to the value of a strong public health sector only to return to slumber after the crisis, until another epidemic startles them anew.
Monica Schoch-Spana wrote the piece. [Opinion]