It may be time to get your COVID-19 vaccine again. There’s a new booster that’s coming out to guard against the virus. The Centers for Disease Control and…
Read more 5 things to know about the new COVID-19 vaccineA new variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has put epidemiologists around the world on alert, and the World Health Organization is asking countries to sustain early warning, surveillance…
Read more New coronavirus variant has experts on alert and WHO is urging countries to step up COVID surveillanceA new variant of COVID-19 dubbed EG.5 has become dominant in the U.S., according to projections made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although a shortage…
Read more New ‘Eris’ COVID variant is dominant in the U.S., but a shortage of data is making it hard to trackThe COVID-19 pandemic is definitively over, according to two recent reports focused on the same metric. That metric is excess deaths, a measure of the difference between the…
Read more COVID pandemic is officially over in the U.S., excess-deaths data showThe World Health Organization on Friday declared an end to the COVID-19 global health emergency. Speaking at a press conference at the agency’s headquarters in Geneva, WHO Director-General…
Read more World Health Organization declares end to COVID global health emergencyThe World Health Organization said nearly 20 million new COVID cases were recorded in the 28 days through Jan. 29, down 78% from the previous 28 days. The…
Read more WHO counted nearly 20 million new COVID cases in latest month as it shifts from weekly reporting scheduleChina stopped issuing visas for visitors from Japan and South Korea on Tuesday in apparent retaliation for COVID-testing measures imposed on travelers from China, the Associated Press reported. China…
Read more China stops issuing visas to Japanese and South Korean visitors as spat over test mandates for Chinese tourists widensChina on Tuesday suspended visas for South Koreans to enter the country for tourism or business in apparent retaliation for South Korea’s COVID-19 testing requirements for Chinese travelers, the…
Read more China takes first steps to punish countries that imposed testing mandates for Chinese travelersChina’s closely watched reopening is now causing concern as the number of new COVID-19 cases grows and the country reports the first deaths in several weeks. Much of…
Read more China predicts COVID ‘normalcy’ within months, but experts forecast more than 1 million deathsOutgoing Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is considering a presidential run, took a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s call to investigate the COVID-19 vaccines, arguing that “we…
Read more Arkansas governor says he supports the science behind COVID-19 vaccines, as daily U.S. cases hold above 65,000A bill to rescind the COVID vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military and to provide nearly $858 billion for national defense passed the Senate on Thursday…
Read more Senate votes to scrap COVID vaccine mandate for militaryThe White House has unveiled a fresh push to increase COVID preparedness heading into the holidays and will again make free tests available to Americans, after a three-month…
Read more White House preps fresh push to urge COVID preparedness ahead of holidays, including free tests for all householdsA growing chorus of voices is questioning why there is no concerted effort to persuade Americans to wear face masks in public settings again as COVID cases, hospitalizations,…
Read more With COVID cases rising fast, critics question why there’s no push for face masks in indoor settingsOmicron subvariants continued to account for more new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. in the latest week than did BA.5, according to the latest data from the…
Read more Omicron subvariants are now dominant in the U.S. as COVID cases tick up and New York City becomes a hot spotCOVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the U.S. are rising and intensive-care-unit beds are being filled again, in a trend that may spell an end to the stable period…
Read more U.S. COVID cases are climbing again as new omicron variants spreadThe head of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday joined the chorus of people urging China to adopt a more targeted approach to the coronavirus pandemic as the…
Read more IMF head joins chorus calling on China to adapt COVID strategy as officials pledge to boost vaccinations among elderlyWidespread protests across China over the government’s zero-COVID policy dominated pandemic headlines Monday, with Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, weighing in with the view that…
Read more China’s zero-COVID strategy makes no sense and its homegrown vaccines are not ‘particularly effective,’ says FauciThe U.S. is unlikely to suffer the same surge of COVID-19 infections this winter as it did last year, when the omicron variant first emerged and swept across…
Read more U.S. unlikely to see another late-year omicron wave, but Fauci urges people to get new COVID boosterAs we head into the third winter of the pandemic, only about 13% of American adults — less than 11% of Americans overall — have received the bivalent…
Read more Confused about COVID boosters? Here’s what the science and the experts say about the new generation of shots.A fresh analysis of data on the immune response generated by the bivalent COVID-19 booster showed strong results against the newer omicron sublineages, Pfizer and German partner BioNTech…
Read more Pfizer and BioNTech updated booster shows strong results against new omicron sublineages in fresh analysis of data
