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[TRENDING NEWS] Friends who went to an anime convention with a man who tested positive for Omicron also got sick, he says.

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Author: BY JULIE BOSMAN, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, RONI CARYN RABIN, PATRICK MCGEEHAN AND KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 01:00AM

[TRENDING NEWS] Friends who went to an anime convention with a man who tested positive for Omicron also got sick, he says.

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Author: BY JULIE BOSMAN, JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN, RONI CARYN RABIN, PATRICK MCGEEHAN AND KIMIKO DE FREYTAS-TAMURA - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 01:00AM

[TRENDING NEWS] 233 staff members at 2 San Francisco hospitals have tested positive, most in breakthrough Delta infections.

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Author: BY EDUARDO MEDINA - Publish Date: August 1, 2021 at 04:13AM Vaccinations warded off severe Covid for most of the workers, who tested positive this month; two required hospitalization.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘It’s Nowhere Near Over’: A Beach Town’s Gust of Freedom, Then a U-turn

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Author: BY ELLEN BARRY AND BETH TREFFEISEN - Publish Date: August 1, 2021 at 02:28AM Provincetown, Mass., the quirky community at the tip of Cape Cod, thought it was safe to return to prepandemic partying. It wasn’t.

[TRENDING NEWS] Baseball Devises New Pandemic-Related Rules for 2021

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Author: BY JAMES WAGNER - Publish Date: February 10, 2021 at 06:39AM The new set of regulations builds on lessons learned by M.L.B. in 2020 along with the experience of other leagues. With its new manual, baseball appears set for an on-time start to the season.

[TRENDING NEWS] Car Rides. Meals. On-Court Play? Tracing the Virus in the N.B.A.

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Author: BY SOPAN DEB - Publish Date: January 21, 2021 at 06:59AM A surge in coronavirus cases and game postponements has led to tighter rules about player interactions, on and off the court. But it’s not always clear where the outbreaks began.

[TRENDING NEWS] Stanford Study Seeks to Quantify Infections Stemming From Trump Rallies

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Author: BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG - Publish Date: November 1, 2020 at 06:52AM The researchers used a statistical model to extrapolate infections tied to 18 rallies, and the study’s figures were not based on individual cases traced directly to particular campaign events.

[TRENDING NEWS] ‘Diamond Sweet 16’ Party Leaves 37 Infected and 270 in Quarantine

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Author: BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK AND MICHAEL GOLD - Publish Date: October 15, 2020 at 08:11AM More than 80 people attended the birthday event, officials said. The Long Island venue was fined $12,000.

[TRENDING NEWS] The U.S. Open Descends Into Pandemic Precaution Chaos

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Author: BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN AND BEN ROTHENBERG - Publish Date: September 6, 2020 at 06:44AM Yet another change in rules for players who were exposed to a player who tested positive for coronavirus caused the top women’s doubles team to be defaulted.

[TRENDING NEWS] Looking to Reopen, Colleges Become Labs for Coronavirus Tests and Tracking Apps

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Author: BY MATT RICHTEL - Publish Date: August 30, 2020 at 02:00PM Universities are pioneering technology that could help society combat the pandemic.

[TRENDING NEWS] On Native American Land, Contact Tracing Is Saving Lives

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Author: BY GINA KOLATA AND TOMÁS KARMELO AMAYA - Publish Date: August 13, 2020 at 02:00PM As the coronavirus spread on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona, medical teams sought out residents who might have been exposed. The effort paid off in unexpected ways.

[TRENDING NEWS] This Contact Tracer Is Fighting Two Contagions: The Virus and Fear

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Author: BY JO BECKER - Publish Date: August 9, 2020 at 04:00PM Convincing infected people to open up means helping them confront deeply held concerns about deportation or job loss.

[TRENDING NEWS] Notes From a Virus Tracker’s Log

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Author: BY JO BECKER - Publish Date: August 9, 2020 at 04:00PM With over 200,000 cases in Los Angeles County alone, contact tracers like Radhika Kumar have their work cut out for them.

[TRENDING NEWS] Is the Subway Risky? It May Be Safer Than You Think

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Author: BY CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM - Publish Date: August 2, 2020 at 02:00PM New studies in Europe and Asia suggest that riding public transportation is not a major source of transmission for the coronavirus.