Ending China’s extreme COVID policy could cause a health disaster
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Nearly three years into a pandemic that has killed more than 6.6 million people worldwide, the official death...
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Waterbury man charged with identity theft, stealing COVID-19 unemployment benefits
A Waterbury man is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing unemployment benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.Olajuwon “OJ” Harrington, 30, was...
Life-insurance payouts hit record $100 billion in 2021 | Mint
U.S. life insurers paid a record $100 billion in 2021 in death benefits, fueled by another year of Covid-19 deaths,...
Twitter’s policy on misleading COVID-19 information is ‘no longer in effect’
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US warns Beijing it can’t control Covid-19 without western jabs
Beijing will be unable to control the spread of Covid-19 unless it imports foreign-made vaccines that are more effective than...
China’s Covid tsar says fight against virus entering ‘new stage’
China’s top zero-Covid enforcer says the fight against the virus has entered a “new stage” while state media have downplayed...
How rampant abuse by fintech fueled covid relief fraud
“The faster the better,” the workers were told at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the little-known financial technology...
New Ultrasound Study Shows Increased Liver Stiffness 10 Months After COVID-19 Infection
New research with ultrasound shear wave elastography (SWE) suggests that liver stiffness, a marker of fibrosis, increases in patients with...
COVID in California: BQ and XBB subvariants have ‘alarming antibody evasion’
As signs grow of the expected winter COVID-19 surge, health experts in the Bay Area offer new advice on how...
Are medical masks non-inferior to N95 respirators to prevent COVID-19 in health care workers providing routine care?
In a recent article published in ACP Journals, researchers determined whether medical (surgical) masks were non-inferior to N95 respirators in...