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Nicole Nicome, M.D., has joined the Holy Cross Medical Group, a multi-specialty physician employed group of more than 160 physicians providing services throughout Broward and Palm Beach counties, as an internal medicine specialist. 

The daily average number of new cases in the US has risen to 120,000. Cases are rising steeply in mid-western and northeastern states where colder weather has driven people to spend more time indoors.

     Health officials in the United Kingdom reported that infection rates due to the Omicron variant had doubled every two to three days. Reportedly, the variant accounts for 40 percent of all COVID cases in London.

     In an early analysis, a second ongoing study that was designed to test whether the pill, called Paxlovid, relieved covid-19 symptoms faster in people who are not considered high risk found no benefit for symptom relief. But the pill regimen did cause the amount of virus in patients’ bodies to plummet and reduced the already low risk of hospitalization and death, though the result was at the edge of statistical significance, a sign that it could be due to chance.

New coronavirus cases are again rising in Florida. The daily average is now 1,500 cases, far below the summer peak, but higher than the last week’s average.