A growing number of public school districts across the U.S. are reinstating face-mask mandates, or considering doing so, as they seek to protect students from the wave of COVID cases being driven by the BA.5 omicron subvariant. “Globally the number of new infections dropped only 3.6% between 2020 and 2021, the smallest annual decline in new HIV infections since 2016,” the authors wrote. In Asia and the Pacific, HIV infections are rising, when they had been falling. About 1.5 million new HIV infections occurred last year, or a million more than targets. The U.S. leads the world with 90.9 million cases and 1,028,888 fatalities.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2022 18:50 UTC