The US is on a Covid plateau, and no one’s sure what will happen next
It's a dramatic improvement from this winter -- there were four times as many hospitalizations and nearly six times as...
Social Impact
COVID Made the Housing Crisis an Everywhere Problem
On an otherwise sleepy Saturday morning, cars were parked bumper to bumper along a suburban street. Couples formed a line...
Can you be ‘super-immune’ to COVID-19? Here’s what doctors say.
PORTSMOUTH — COVID-19 has been pervasive for more than two years. It has been almost impossible to evade. Yet there are...
Prudential hit by China’s zero-Covid policy
Prudential reported that its Hong Kong division suffered a steep fall in new business profits in the first half of...
COVID antiviral, carbon-dating troubles and Chile’s science bet
A temporary hospital for people with COVID-19 in Shanghai. The country has approved the first antiviral for the disease made...
Cathay Pacific losses narrow as COVID-19 restrictions ease
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific Airways said Wednesday that losses in the first half of the...
Omicron subvariants gain more ground, including BA.4.6 in the Midwest
Though the 7-day average for new daily COVID-19 cases is slowly declining, the more transmissible and immune-evasive Omicron subvariants became...
In Seattle, Fauci talks COVID politics, monkeypox and life in the public eye
In a packed auditorium at Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Dr. Anthony Fauci led a conversation Tuesday afternoon about the...
Michigan adds 16,137 cases, 137 deaths from COVID-19 over last week
Michigan experienced its first case decline in five weeks as the state added 16,137 cases and 137 deaths from COVID-19...
China’s youth face bleak job market as COVID slows economy
BEIJING -- Liu Qian, job-hunting with a new master's degree, said two employers interviewed her and then said the positions...