GENEVA (AP) — After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. Years later, countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global outbreak. A […]
AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine from worldwide circulation and marketing authorizations. The British-Swedish company recently acknowledged side effects such as blood clots and low platelet counts in court papers, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday. But AstraZeneca said in a statement that the slipping COVID-19 market has become saturated with newer vaccines, hurting Vaxzevria‘s sales. […]
BEIJING (AP) — The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China said he was allowed back into his lab after he spent days locked outside, sitting in protest. Zhang Yongzhen wrote in an online post on Wednesday, just past midnight, that the medical center that hosts his lab had “tentatively […]
LOS ANGELES — On a recent afternoon, Grant Oh zigzagged across the University of Southern California campus as if he was conquering an obstacle course, coming up against police blockade after police blockade on his way to his apartment while officers arrested demonstrators protesting the Israel-Hamas war. In many ways, the chaotic moment was the […]
X’s crowdsourced approach to correcting what it calls fake news about COVID-19 vaccines offers an “effective misinformation countermeasure,” according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022. That December, it implemented “community notes,” a fact-checking system that […]
Babies and toddlers up to 5 years old experienced “modest” developmental delays during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, according to a federally funded study. Led by Johns Hopkins Children’s Center researchers, the study analyzed data on 52,205 children for links between pandemic disruptions to everyday life and changes in development. Parents completed digital surveys through more than […]
BEIJING — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that killed millions and paralyzed the world for months. The Chinese government froze meaningful domestic and international efforts to trace the […]
A group of military clergy is asking the Supreme Court to uphold their First Amendment rights, which allow them to reject taking the COVID-19 vaccine despite orders from the Department of Defense. They also say they have faced retaliation such as not being promoted for their religious exemption requests. More than three dozen chaplains asked […]
A county in Northern Virginia has declined to hand over almost $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief to a liberal immigration activist group that calls itself a “national powerhouse.” The Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted Feb. 20 to deny the proposed reimbursement of about $1 million in federal funds to the organization, […]
When those charged with nurturing and saving lives end up harming and ending lives, do good intentions count? Some of the women on “The View” seem to think so. Even though it became clear early in the pandemic that children were the least vulnerable group from the COVID-19 virus and that keeping them out of […]
Welcome, Login to your account.
Welcome, Create your new account
A password will be e-mailed to you.