COVID-19

An Air Canada jet at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Toronto.

Canada will no longer require vaccines for domestic travelers and government workers

6:46am June 15, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Canada has had about 2.4 million cases of COVID-19 since December 2020. About 85% of the population has gotten at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, while about 82% has gotten two doses.

Health-care staff in remote clinics in Ecuador have struggled to provide pandemic resources for their patients.

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Young doctors spend a year caring for rural folks in Ecuador. Here's what they find

12:19pm June 13, 2022

by Kata Karáth

For millions in remote areas, health-care is barebones. The health-care team may be a long canoe ride away. Supplies are meager. Electricity comes and goes. And the pandemic made things worse.

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Forsyth County labeled high risk for COVID spread, indoor masking advised

3:48pm June 10, 2022

by Keri Brown

The Department of Justice building in Washington on February 9, 2022.

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A Florida man is accused of $2.5 million COVID-19 relief fraud

5:00am June 09, 2022

by Shauneen Miranda

A 34-year-old man was charged with one count of wire fraud after being accused of filing a fraudulent loan application in 2020.

Dr. Stephaun Wallace, who leads the global external relations strategies for the COVID-19 Prevention Network at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, receives his second injection from Dr. Tia Babu during the Novavax vaccine phase 3 clini

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Advisers to the FDA back Novavax COVID vaccine

5:21pm June 07, 2022

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted to recommend that it authorize Novavax's two-dose vaccine against COVID-19.

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Mask use encouraged as Forsyth County returns to high COVID level

10:32pm June 05, 2022

by Paul Garber

A rise in new COVID cases has led the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to elevate Forsyth County's community level to “High.”

Syringes filled with the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine were prepared for use at a vaccination center in Berlin, Germany, in February. Soon the vaccine could become available in the U.S.

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Novavax's COVID vaccine nears the finish line

1:27pm June 03, 2022

by Rob Stein

The Novavax vaccine appears to be about 90% effective at preventing mild, moderate and severe COVID-19, Food and Drug Administration scientists say in an analysis of the company's data.

Delivery men sort out their parcels outside a community on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, in Beijing.

Shanghai eases into gradually reopening from its COVID-19 lockdown

3:06am May 31, 2022

by The Associated Press

China's largest city and global financial hub plans to restore mass transit and gradually reopen schools

Spallanzani infectious disease hospital Director Francesco Vaia talks to reporters at the end of a news conference Friday in Rome.

Monkeypox isn't like COVID-19 — and that's a good thing

4:42pm May 24, 2022

Although monkeypox's recent spread has caused concern, its similarities to smallpox have given the public health world a head start on combating it.

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un covers the coffin of Hyon Chol Hae, marshal of the Korean People's Army, with earth at a cemetery in Pyongyang, North Korea Sunday, May 22, 2022. The content of this im

Kim and other N. Koreans attend large funeral amid COVID worry

1:05am May 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

The isolated East Asian country has only stated how many people have fevers daily, and has only identified a few of the cases as COVID-19 since admitting to an outbreak of the omicron variant.