Health officials say the delta variant of the coronavirus continues to surge and accounts for an estimated 83% of U.S. COVID-19 cases.
That’s a dramatic increase from the week of July 3, when the variant accounted for about 50% of genetically sequenced coronavirus cases.
“The best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 variants is to prevent the spread of disease, and vaccination is the most powerful tool we have,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a U.S. Senate hearing Tuesday.
The delta variant is a mutated coronavirus that spreads more easily than other versions. It was first detected in India but now has been identified around the world.
A U.S. citizen who recently returned from a trip to central China has been diagnosed with the new virus.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, January 21, 2020.
Microsoft on Thursday announced a “moonshot” plan to not only zero-out its heat-trapping carbon emissions but to remove more greenhouse gas than it generates by 2030.
Here are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Friday, January 17, 2020.
A Capitol Hill hearing on cannabis legislation Wednesday underscored the regulatory straitjacket that restricts research and scheduling of cannabis in the United States.
These are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Thursday, January 16, 2020.
Weeks after the White House unexpectedly derailed a bipartisan tax deal for electric vehicles, offshore wind energy, and other major green priorities, dozens of emissaries from the nation’s renewable energy industries and environmental advocacy groups are gathering in the nation’s capital to begin charting their green-energy push for 2020 — and to dissect what went wrong in the final hours of its 2019 influence campaign.
Here are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Wednesday, January 15, 2020.
The head of the world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, announced Tuesday that the company will begin accounting for climate change in its investment decisions.
Here are the headlines you Need 2 Know for Tuesday, January 14, 2020.
