Beijing threatens response to 'unacceptable' virus measures
Australia and Canada this week joined a growing list of countries requiring travelers from China to take a COVID-19 test prior to boarding their flight.
View ArticleNo, the COVID-19 vaccines can’t cause or create new variants
COVID-19 vaccines will slow the spread of the virus and do not cause or create the variants.
View ArticleGyms that survived pandemic steadily get back in shape
Gyms and fitness studios were among the hardest hit businesses during the pandemic, hammered by lockdowns and then limits.
View ArticleUS proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans
The FDA will present data this week suggesting most Americans have enough protection against coronavirus to move to a once-a-year shots.
View ArticlePresident Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11
The government will treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies' normal authorities.
View ArticleCoronavirus lab leak theory finds growing support
While some scientists are open to the lab-leak theory, others still believe the virus came from animals, mutated, and jumped into people.
View ArticleChina says it's been 'open and transparent' on COVID origins
The comments came amid renewed questions about how the virus that has killed more than 6.8 million people worldwide first emerged.
View ArticleChina dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory
U.S. agencies are not in agreement on the origin of the virus, and it may be years before we know where the virus originated — if ever.
View ArticleCOVID-19 conspiracies soar after latest report on origins
Within hours of the news of the Energy Department report exploring the "lab leak" theory, online mentions of conspiracy theories involving COVID-19 began to rise.
View ArticleHouse votes 419-0 to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
U.S. intelligence agencies are divided over whether a lab leak or a spillover from animals is the likely source of the deadly virus.
View ArticleUS ends COVID test requirement for travelers from China
The restrictions took effect in January amid a surge in infections in China after the nation sharply eased pandemic restrictions.
View ArticleChina to reopen to tourists, resume all visas Wednesday
In recent months, China has relaxed its COVID-19 restrictions after keeping the nation on strict lockdown for the majority of the pandemic
View ArticleUS pregnancy deaths are down to pre-COVID levels
“From the worst to the near worst? I wouldn’t exactly call that an accomplishment,” said one New Yorker whose partner died after childbirth in 2019.
View ArticleNew COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market
Efforts to determine COVID's origin have been complicated by factors including the massive surge of human infections and bitter international political disputes.
View ArticleCOVID widened racial gap for fatal strokes in US
Black Americans have long had a higher stroke death rate than their white counterparts, a gap that was fairly steady for decades. But COVID widened the racial gap.
View ArticleUS to lift most federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates next week
The move marks the latest display of how President Joe Biden’s administration is moving to treat COVID-19 as a routine, endemic illness.
View ArticleWHO downgrades COVID pandemic, says it's no longer emergency
The U.N. health agency said that the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t come to an end despite the emergency phase being over.
View ArticleCDC head Rochelle Walensky resigning, citing pandemic transition
Walensky was brought in to raise morale at the CDC, to rebuild public trust in the agency and to improve its sometimes-bumbling response to the COVID pandemic.
View ArticleFDA: More than 500K COVID tests should be thrown out due to bacteria risk
Around 500,000 of the recalled COVID tests were distributed to CVS Health and around 16,000 were sent to Amazon for sale.
View ArticleUS study finds 1 in 10 get long COVID after omicron, starts identifying key...
The study was an attempt to understand why some people suffer side effects from COVID-19 for months or years after getting it.
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