Most patients are unlikely to develop severe disease or die if they get the current variants of COVID-19 as immunity levels have climbed given higher levels of vaccination.…
Read more WHO’s new COVID guidelines see fewer patients requiring hospitalizationSTOCKHOLM (AP) — Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The award was…
Read more Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to two scientists whose work enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19It 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 vaccineThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended updated COVID-19 vaccines for people 6 months of age and older. Director Mandy Cohen late Tuesday backed the…
Read more CDC recommends updated COVID shots for people 6 months of age and olderA 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 surveillanceThe World Health Organization has upgraded COVID-19 variant EG.5 to a variant of interest, or VOI, from a variant under monitoring, or VUM, as it continues to become…
Read more WHO names Eris a COVID variant of interest. Here’s what you need to know.A 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 slide in the U.S. dollar in the last eight months could mean that mean all of its gains in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic will soon…
Read more U.S. dollar could soon wipe out all of its post-pandemic gains, Soc Gen strategist warnsThe 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 pandemic opened the floodgates to telehealth. Now, many patients and doctors are curbing their enthusiasm for virtual care. Four out of five primary-care doctors who had video…
Read more The doctor won’t Zoom with you now: The telehealth frenzy is over.Loneliness is more than a bad feeling. It’s as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day and is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease,…
Read more Loneliness is an ‘epidemic’ that costs billions and leads to bad health outcomes and even deathIt’s been a busy few months for China — and sobering ones for the United States. Days later, Beijing announced it had brokered a deal that will see…
Read more China is not only asserting itself geopolitically but openly questioning the U.S.’s central role on the world stageA leading infectious-disease expert said this week that data is showing the coronavirus has moved to the endemic phase, meaning that COVID-19 is still with us but no…
Read more Leading infectious-disease expert says COVID-19 is now endemic, but Americans are divided on whether pandemic is overAlibaba reported better-than-expected earnings in the final three months of 2022, giving Wall Street exactly what it wanted as analysts remain positive on the Chinese tech giant. But…
Read more Alibaba Stock Jumps After Earnings Beat. Chinese Lockdowns Still Weighed.The omicron subvariant that became dominant in the U.S. several weeks ago continued to extend its lead over other variants in the latest week, according to Centers for…
Read more Omicron subvariant that’s dominant in U.S. extends lead over other variants in latest week, CDC data showsThe 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 schedulePresident Joe Biden will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world gets closer to normalcy nearly three years after…
Read more Biden to end U.S. COVID emergencies on May 11, but more than 500 people are still dying every dayThe coronavirus pandemic is still a global health emergency, according to the World Health Organization, but an advisory panel has determined that it may be nearing an inflection…
Read more Pandemic is still a global health emergency but it may be reaching a point where higher immunity levels mean fewer deathsA Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously Thursday for Americans to get a once-a-year booster against COVID-19, with the strain to be decided midyear for a…
Read more FDA panel backs plan for annual COVID-19 booster, as new omicron subvariant continues to dominate in new cases
