Experts Try to Debunk Myths About COVID
People the world over have questions about the COVID-19 vaccines. Most have heard rumors about their safety. Even some health ...
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COVID-19 Shaves 1 Year off US Life Expectancy
The COVID-19 pandemic has erased more than a decade of improvements in life expectancy in the United States and widened racial ...
Perseverance Probe Successfully Lands on Mars
NASA’s Perseverance probe landed safely and on time on Mars, at 3:55 p.m. EST, Thursday, marking another success for the U.S. ...
NASA Rover’s Mission and Tricky Landing
NASA and the United States have successfully landed the Perseverance on Mars after the rover left the company of spacecrafts from ...
Anxiety Lurks Behind Coronavirus Pandemic for Many Under 30
Pushed to the back of Gen Z anxieties by the COVID-19 pandemic, a looming stressor for many people younger than 30 remains ...
Malawi Ends COVID-19 School Restrictions After Infections Drop
Malawi will reopen schools on Monday (Feb 22), five weeks after President Lazarus Chakwera suspended classes due to a surge in ...
Perseverance Probe Set for Thursday Landing on Mars
The latest NASA probe to Mars is set to land Thursday after a journey that began last July.Perseverance’s entry into the ...
First Federally Supported Mass Vaccination Sites Open in US Cities
President Joe Biden’s administration has pledged to improve the delivery of COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. This week, the first ...
German Health Minister: British COVID-19 Variant Spreading Rapidly
German Health Minister Jens Spahn said Wednesday the so-called British variant of COVID-19 is spreading quickly in his country, ...
UN Chief Calls on Rich Nations to Implement Global Vaccine Task Force
The U.N. secretary-general called on the world’s largest economies Wednesday to create a task force to plan and coordinate a ...
Hotel Quarantine Under Scrutiny as Australian State Races to Contain COVID-19 Outbreak
As the Australian state of Victoria enters its third day of a snap COVID-19 lockdown, the national medical association is calling ...
Britain Begins Quarantine for Travelers from ‘Red List’ Countries
Britain on Monday launched its quarantine program for travelers arriving from 33 “red list” countries determined to be a high ...
I Got Vaccinated Against COVID: What’s Next?
What happens after you received both doses of the COVID vaccine? Lesia Bakalets looked into how much life changes, if at all. ...
NASA Rover Faces ‘7 Minutes of Terror’ Before Landing on Mars
When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of ...
Post-COVID Symptoms Will Have Profound Impact on Global Health
The World Health Organization says debilitating post-COVID-19 symptoms in patients will have an impact on global health because ...
Report: British Scientists Developing Universal COVID Vaccine
There are 108.5 million global COVID-19 infections, Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center reported early Sunday. The U.S. has ...
Doctors, Selfie Points Help Fight Vaccine Hesitancy in New Delhi
Azhoni Marina had witnessed the havoc wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic up close as she nursed patients in a COVID ward for seven ...
More Than 50 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccines Administered in US, CDC says
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it had administered more than 50 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in ...
Guinea Sees First Ebola Deaths Since 2016
Four people have died of Ebola in Guinea in the first resurgence of the disease in five years, the country’s health ...
Australia Leading Race to Save Endangered ‘Hedge-Trimmer’ Fish
New research has shown that Australia is the “last stronghold on Earth” for four out of five threatened species of sawfish. ...
CDC: Evidence Is Strong That Schools Can Reopen Doors Safely
The top public health agency in the U.S. said Friday that in-person schooling could resume safely with masks, social distancing ...
Malawi Health Workers Face Harassment over COVID-19 Deaths
In Malawi, health care workers have come under attack several times recently while trying to bury victims of COVID-19 without ...
ICRC Calls for Africa to Get Fair Share of COVID-19 vaccines
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is calling on the world community to make sure Africa gets a fair share of ...
Australian Open Begins Under COVID Lockdown
The Australian Open in Melbourne is underway, but without any spectators. Instead of enjoying the tournament, tennis fans ...