Daily News | On the eve of Thanksgiving, here’s the state of COVID in the Philly region
continuing their decline in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as health experts express confidence that this winter would be the first since the pandemic began without a significant seasonal viral surge.
“We are in a very different place and we will remain in a different place,” said Ashish Jha, the White House COVID coordinator, at a conference last week hosted by theAbout three years after COVID first emerged, 90% of Americans have gotten at least one COVID vaccine shot and, he said, many have caught and recovered from the virus.
Local indicators are giving experts hope that the region won’t experience another COVID surge driven by holiday gatherings. “Maybe COVID will be manageable... I should say, probably,” said Stephen Gluckman, medical director at Penn Global Medicine and professor of infectious diseases at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in a recent
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