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Is China giving a complete picture of the toll of Covid? By the numbers, Shanghai has been held up as a shining star of how to save lives in a pandemic. There were more than 400,000 […]

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The United States will no longer enforce a mask mandate on public transportation, including airplanes and trains.  A federal judge in Florida ruled that the directive was “unlawful,” and overturned an effort to reduce the […]

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The second Global COVID-19 Summit has been scheduled for May 12 and will be held virtually next month for countries to discuss efforts to end the ongoing pandemic and prepare for future health threats.  A […]

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You may soon be able to tell if you have Covid by simply breathing into a Breathalyzer.  The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for what it says is the first device […]

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There are two versions of the BA.2 Omicron Covid variant driving up new cases in New York, once again making the region a Covid hotspot.  The two variants, BA.2.12 and BA.12.1, may be the fastest-spreading […]

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Covid cases are on the rise in Philadelphia and have passed the threshold set by the city guidelines that require masks indoors.  It makes Philadelphia the first major American city to reinstate an indoor mask […]

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Shanghai’s 25 million people are still locked down as China continues its efforts to stamp out the largest ever Covid outbreak in the country.  China has come under fire for its intense lockdown measures in […]

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has decided on Thursday to only cover Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm for patients enrolled in randomized clinical trials. As the decision goes into effect immediately, patients who […]

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The Chinese government has extended a lockdown in Shanghai today to cover all of the city’s 26 million people after testing showed some spread of Covid, but despite the fact that the latest results revealed […]

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According to US health experts, a broad pandemic-related deportation policy that has essentially shut down the US asylum system at the border with Mexico will be ended, stating that it is no longer necessary to […]

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The BA.2 sub-variant of the Covid omicron variant is now expected to represent more than half of Covid cases in the United States.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 54.9 percent of […]

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The Food and Drug Administration is likely to soon approve an extra Covid booster shot for everyone aged 50 and older.  The FDA could approve the extra dose of the vaccination as soon as today, […]

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China is battling the biggest Covid outbreak in the country since the original Wuhan outbreak. Shanghai said it will lock down half of the city in different turns in order to begin testing the population […]

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A study conducted at Washington University shows that almost one-third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the first year of the pandemic suffered from peripheral neuropathy. Peripheral neuropathy, which can be either short-term […]

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Hong Kong announced today that it will be lifting its ban on flights from nine countries beginning April 1, as part of a few other restrictions that will be relaxed.  Experts and government officials said […]

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The United States should expect an increase in Covid cases due to the new BA.2 variant, warned Dr. Anthony Fauci. Fauci said though that while there will be a rise in cases, it may not lead […]

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There could soon be a new malaria treatment for kids. The single-dose medication could be a new weapon in defeating the deadly illness.  Australian regulators approved the simple drug combination to treat malaria in children aged […]

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Covid is on the rise in China as the Omicron variant drives the worst outbreak in the country since Wuhan at the beginning of the pandemic.  Thousands of new local cases were reported on Sunday […]

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The first person to receive a heart transplant from a pig has died two months after the groundbreaking experiment.  The Maryland hospital that performed the surgery announced that David Bennett, 57, died at the University […]

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With the Covid-19’s death toll eclipsing 6 million Monday, it is more than obvious that the COVID pandemic, which is now in its third year, is far from finished as people around the globe are […]

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The NFL and its players’ union have agreed to suspend all Covid protocols.  The NFL and the union National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) sent a memo to all 32 of the NFL teams saying […]

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be ending forced self-isolation for people who test positive for Covid beginning next week, despite concerns from health experts and scientists that the move is extremely premature.  Downing Street […]

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A million and a half doses of a new protein-based Covid vaccine will arrive in Germany this week in hopes to sway a minority of the population that remains skeptical of the common vaccines.  The […]

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Concerns over possible staffing issues made New York state officials to announce on Friday that they would not enforce the state’s COVID-19 vaccine booster mandate for health care workers. The mandate, which was set to […]

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