COVID Cases Jumped 139% Following Coachella Music Festival in Riverside, California

Photo: Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty COVID-19 caseshave jumped up 139% in the last two weeks in Riverside County, California, after hosting the2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festivalfor two weekends. Coachella attracted an estimated 750,000 people to the California desert for the festival, which took place over two weekends; April 15 to 17 and April 22 to 24. This was the first year back after the 2020 and 2021 festivals were canceled due to the pandemic.

COVID Cases Rising Quickly in Washington D.C. and New York City Again

Photo: Getty COVID-19cases are rising once again in some major cities. Although much of the country has seen a plateau in positive cases after the omicron variant surged through the U.S. late last year, cities like New York City and Washington D.C. have been seeing an alarming uptick in cases over the last few weeks – likely because of thehighly contagious BA.2 subvarianthitting the Northeast. According to data fromtheNew York TimesCOVID tracker last updated on April 8, positive cases have increased 51 percent over the last two weeks in New York City, with an average of 1,572 cases reported per day.

COVID Has Been 'Devastating' to Americans with Diabetes, Who Account for Up to 40% of Virus Deaths

Diabetes monitoring.Photo: Getty Multiple studies,including data from the Centers for Disease Control, have pointed toa high number of COVID-19 deathsoccurring in Americans with diabetes, likely between 30 to 40% of all deaths. Prior studies have also found that people with diabetes aremore likely to have severe illness, spendmore time in the ICU and are more likely to be put on a ventilator. And for those with diabetes who go to the hospital, one study found that 20% died within a month.

COVID Hospitalizations Are the Lowest Since the Start of the Pandemic

Photo: GettyAccording to data from theDepartment of Health and Human Services, COVID hospitalizations have reached a new low.HHS began recording hospitalization data in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The highest peak was in January of this year during the rise of the omicron variant with 159,000 hospitalizations in a single day. The new number is a seven-day average of 16,760 in hospital beds.A child getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose.

COVID in the Classroom: Legal Experts Answer Parents' Questions About Keeping Kids Safe at School

Photo: Getty After struggling with remote school, hybrid school, socially distanced classrooms, parent-led learning and every other educational adaptation that came to be once COVID-19 turned the world upside down in March 2020, parents were finally feeling hopeful about kids returning to school this fall. Vaccinations were rising. Infections were dropping. The kids seemed alright. Then came Delta, tempering all back-to-school optimism. Since the new variant emerged, we’ve seen a surge in COVID cases, even among children — pediatric COVID patients are beinghospitalized at a higher ratethan ever before — as well as a deepening of political and moral divisions.