COVID-19 updates. View latest news.WASHINGTON — “I believe we are at an inflection point,” White House pandemic response team coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha said at his first briefing, his remark inauspiciously punctuated by a reporter’s cough. COVID-19 is still...
What the heck is happening with COVID right now?Amid the chaos and controversy that followed a federal judge’s decision to strike down the U.S. mask mandate for travel earlier this week — a decision the Department of Justice is...
A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that nearly a quarter-million COVID-19 deaths in the United States could have been prevented through vaccination.“We find that approximately 234,000 deaths since June 2021 could have been prevented with...
U.S. COVID cases are rising once again — and, as ever, Americans are arguing about masks.It’s a pattern as enduring as the pandemic itself. Infections go up. So do the masks. And the same reflexive Twitter wars — do...
WASHINGTON — For months, the White House has argued that with coronavirus vaccines, high-quality face masks and COVID-19 treatments available nationwide, it is time to move beyond two years of pandemic emergency living. In March, it published a 97-page...
Is America about to dodge the BA.2 bullet?For weeks now, BA.2 — an even more transmissible subvariant of BA.1, the original, hypercontagious Omicron strain — has been wreaking havoc across Europe, triggering steep and sudden resurgences of infection just...
More than two years into the pandemic, those living with "long COVID," medically known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2, remain sick and forced to grapple with a "new normal." Even people who had a “mild” version of COVID-19 and...
WASHINGTON — President Biden received his second coronavirus booster shot on Wednesday, sitting for the jab after delivering remarks from the White House about the need for additional congressional pandemic-related funding before the new BA.2 subvariant triggers another wave...
Associated PressEnergy agency: 'Radical action' needed to hit climate goalsThe world must take “radical action” to shift away from fossil fuels, including investing $5.7 trillion annually in solar, wind and other forms of clean power this decade to ensure...
Is BA.2 about to surge in America the way it’s surging in Europe?There are already some clues that it might not — and the coming days could provide even more reason for cautious optimism.Across the pond, the BA.2 subvariant...
