California Reports Coronavirus Variant Case
Health officials in the U.S. state of California said a patient there has been infected with a coronavirus variant first detected ...
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Alarm in Australia as COVID-19 Infections Grow
Tough New Year’s Eve restrictions are being put in place as Australia’s biggest city struggles to contain growing coronavirus ...
Scientists Trying to Understand New Virus Variant
Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won’t work? Questions are multiplying as ...
California Has Nation’s 2nd Confirmed Case of Virus Variant
California on Wednesday announced the nation’s second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of ...
Britain Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine, Offering Hope Amid COVID Surge
Britain approved another vaccine for the coronavirus Wednesday, this one developed by Oxford University and the pharmaceutical ...
Britain Approves AstraZeneca Vaccine, Offering Hope Amid Surge in COVID-19 Infections
Britain became the first country to approve the coronavirus vaccine developed jointly by Oxford University and AstraZeneca ...
New US Dietary Guidelines: No Candy, Cake for Kids Under 2
Parents now have an extra reason to say no to candy, cake and ice cream for young children. The first U.S. government dietary ...
Argentina’s Senate Poised to Vote on Legalizing Abortion
Argentina was on the cusp of legalizing abortion Tuesday over the objections of its influential Roman Catholic Church, with the ...
California Expected to Extend Stay-at-Home Orders as Health Care System Overwhelmed
The western U.S. state of California is expected to extend strict stay-at-home orders Tuesday for residents in two major areas ...
Study: Britain Must Vaccinate 2 Million a Week to Prevent Third COVID-19 Wave
Britain must vaccinate 2 million people a week to avoid a third wave of the coronavirus outbreak, a study by the London School of ...
UN Chief Issues Message of Hope, Healing for New Year
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has issued a message of hope and healing for the new year to the hundreds of millions of ...
Aid Groups Aim to Bring Health Care to Migrants on Way to US
Aurora Leticia Cruz has tried to keep up with her blood pressure medication since fleeing Guatemala more than a year ago, but the ...
Fauci: US Facing ‘Critical Time’ in Fight Against Coronavirus
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said Sunday that the country is “really at a critical time” in ...
WHO Urges Nations to Prepare for Future Pandemics
The World Health Organization is urging nations to prepare for inevitable future pandemics, as it marks the first International ...
Where Are We in COVID-19 Vaccine Race?
European Union gave approval on Dec. 21 for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, the latest regulatory ...
EU Countries Begin Vaccinations Against Coronavirus
Several European Union countries began vaccinating against COVID-19 Sunday.In Italy, a nurse, a university professor and a doctor ...
Nurse, 29, First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine in Italy
Italians began to receive COVID-19 vaccines Sunday after the first batch of nearly 10,000 doses arrived. Italians hope that the ...
WHO: Learn from COVID Pandemic, It Won’t be the Last
The pandemic caused by the coronavirus “will not be the last pandemic, and epidemics are a fact of life,” World Health ...
France, Romania Receive First Doses of Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
France on Saturday received its first batches of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which were delivered to the Paris ...
France Records First Case of New Coronavirus Variant
French health officials say the country has recorded its first case of the new COVID-19 variant that has led to new lockdowns in ...
Additional 100 Million Doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Vaccine to be Distributed in US
Pfizer-BioNTech said Wednesday they will supply the United States with an additional 100 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine ...
Vaccine Apathy Fuels Yellow Fever Outbreak in Nigeria
More than 170 people have died from yellow fever outbreaks in Nigeria this year, despite vaccines being available since 2004. A ...
Vaccine Apathy in Nigeria Fuels Yellow Fever Outbreak
More than 170 people have died from yellow fever outbreaks in Nigeria this year, despite vaccines being available since ...
In Lawsuit, DOJ Accuses Walmart of Fueling Opioid Crisis
Retail giant Walmart Inc. is facing a civil lawsuit from the Department of Justice alleging the company “unlawfully ...