US flu activity soars; hospital cases nearly double
The early brisk flu season in the United States intensified last week, with hospitalizations almost doubling and most states in...
Seniors
60% of nursing home residents in Michigan are not boosted against COVID
About 4 in 10 seniors living in Michigan nursing homes are up-to-date on their coronavirus vaccines, which could leave many...
Xi’s ‘Trap’: Why China Can’t Just End Its Zero-COVID Policy
Protesters in China have demanded an end to the country’s draconian zero-COVID policy—a pandemic prevention strategy that President Xi Jinping...
L.A. County COVID surge raises prospect of indoor mask order
Coronavirus case and hospitalization rates have risen dramatically in Los Angeles County, which on Thursday reentered the medium COVID-19 community...
FDA pulls Covid antibody treatment because it’s not effective against dominant omicron variants
An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5,...
Fauci says China has done a bad job of vaccinating the elderly and their shots are not very effective against Covid
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, testifies at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on...
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...
More than 90% of COVID deaths occurring among elderly adults: CDC
Older people have always been known to be one of the groups at highest risk of death from COVID-19, but...
Babies’ COVID hospitalizations as high as seniors’ amid Omicron
Infants younger than 6 months had the same rate of hospitalization as seniors age 65 to 74 during this summer’s...
China clamps down on ‘zero covid’ protests, loosens some pandemic measures
Chinese health officials Tuesday showed small signs of potential compromise on the state’s hardline “zero covid” policy, pledging a new...