New COVID-19 Variants BA.4 and BA.5 May Spur Surge
Olga SiletskayaGetty Images Omicron has been the dominant COVID-19 variant in the U.S. for months, but it’s spawned several subvariants...
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People Living In Pro-Trump Counties More Likely To Die From Covid, Study Finds
ToplinePeople living in counties that voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election were more likely to die from Covid-19 than...
How long covid could change the way we think about disability
Mallory Stanislawczyk was hesitant to make the call. She hadn’t spoken to her friend for years. But the friend, who...
The U.S. has wasted over 82 million Covid vaccine doses
Pharmacies, states, U.S. territories and federal agencies discarded 82.1 million Covid vaccine doses from December 2020 through mid-May — just over...
Severe Covid cases more likely in places with high air pollution, study finds
Long-term exposure to pollution is linked to a greater risk of severe Covid-19, according to new research that calls for...
The Missing Part of America’s Pandemic Response
Many parts of the U.S. government, including its leading scientific agencies, are being blamed for the country’s chaotic and disorganized...
Illinois coronavirus: Regular briefings not part of Pritzker’s current COVID-19 Rx
SPRINGFIELD — Regular COVID-19 briefings were once a staple of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s plan to educate Illinoisans about the crisis...
Shanghai outbreak exposes Chinese health system’s fragility
The fact that Shanghai – the most developed city in mainland China, and with top medical resources – still needed...
Successful Phase 3 Trial of Novel COVID-19 Vaccine from Chinese Company
A novel vaccine against COVID-19, ZF2001 (Zifivax), from the China-based developer, Zhifei, that builds its protein subunit platform with a...
East European countries ask EU to reopen vaccine contracts
A group of ten Eastern European countries have petitioned the European Commission to renegotiate coronavirus vaccine contracts, in a letter...