Covid-19 Live Updates: Covid Deaths in Delta Surge Hit Younger Unvaccinated People - The Wall Street Journal
Six Los Angeles Police Department employees are suing the city over its requirement that they get vaccinated against Covid-19.
The LAPD said recently that about half of its 12,000 employees are vaccinated.Some people are trying to get Covid-19 booster shots.A surge in Covid-19 deaths caused by the highly contagious Delta variant is hitting working-age people hard while highlighting the risks for people who remain unvaccinated.Federal data show Covid-19 deaths among people under 55 have roughly matched highs near 1,800 a week set during last winter’s surge.These data show weekly tallies for overall Covid-19 deaths, meanwhile, remain well under half of the pandemic peak near 26,000 reached in January.
The Delta-driven Covid-19 surge is the first major case surge to spread through a partially vaccinated U.S.High vaccination rates among the elderly, who are more vulnerable to severe Covid-19 outcomes, are restraining the overall increase in deaths, some researchers say.
The change is shifting a larger share of deaths to younger populations with lower vaccination rates, underscoring the need to get more people inoculated to curb the pandemic, they say.
In-person school is precarious, Covid-19 cases remain elevated, and the question of where we work remains in limbo.
are slowing their dining rooms’ reopenings, given the Delta-driven surge in Covid-19 infections.
More than 20 months after the pandemic began, people around the world are having to change the way they think about a disease that public-health authorities once believed they could conquer.Instead, many expect Covid-19 will become a routine disease like a common cold or the flu, rather than a cause of mass hospitalizations and deaths.
It also would become one more disease that people might have to get regularly immunized against