Anthony Fauci, the president’s chief Covid-19 adviser, offered Americans one final warning as he prepares to leave government, ending a tumultuous turn in the national spotlight that earned him enduring affection from some and unrelenting hostility from others. “Please, for your own safety, for that of your family, get your updated Covid-19 shot as soon […]
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Last week, “Pandemic over” This week, “Global Health emergency”
During an appearance at the White House on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that COVID-19 is still a “global health emergency” despite his previous insistence that the “pandemic is over.” Biden appeared alongside doctors who are leading his administration’s efforts to stop the spread of the virus, the AP reported. The President is urging Americans […]
Lucrative stock trades made by US officials in preparation for Covid-19
Dozens of federal officials made lucrative stock and mutual fund trades in early 2020 as the government was preparing for the onslaught of Covid-19, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation. In January of that year, while the public was broadly unaware of the scale and severity of the threat posed by the virus, US […]
NIH looking into Boston University’s COVID-19 ‘Gain of function’ research
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking into COVID-19 research that was conducted at Boston University to determine whether the experiment should have been subject to agency guidelines. Earlier this month, researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine published findings from a preprint study in which they combined the ancestral COVID-19 virus with […]
Top Companies Push Post-Labor Day Return to Office
During the more than two years that the COVID-19 pandemic blanketed the U.S. economic landscape, millions of workers were able to work in remote or hybrid arrangements. But now, as the COVID pall has lifted, some Fortune 100 companies — including Disney, Apple, and Tesla — are expecting their employees to work more days in […]
The US is on a Covid plateau, what’s next?
The United States seems to have hit a Covid-19 plateau, with more than 40,000 people hospitalized and more than 400 deaths a day consistently over the past month or so. It’s a dramatic improvement from this winter — there were four times as many hospitalizations and nearly six times as many deaths at the peak […]
Biden’s COVID a ‘teachable moment’ for the White House
For more than a year, President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to defy the odds. When he finally did test positive, the White House was ready. It set out to turn the diagnosis into a “teachable moment” and dispel any notion of a crisis. “The president does what every other person in […]
Trump Supporters Rejoice, Fauci a no-go in 2024
Anumber of Donald Trump supporters have rejoiced after Dr. Anthony Fauci said he would leave his role as the White House chief medical adviser if the former president wins the 2024 election. Fauci laughed off the suggestion that he would remain in his White House role if Trump returned as president or that he would […]
Kamala Harris is vaxxed and boosted. Why is she taking Pfizer’s Paxlovid?
The vice president has a problem—she’s tested positive for COVID-19. And this amidst her other pressing cares, including handling the obscene border crisis and trying to defuse the first major European war since World War II. Yesterday, VP Kamala Harris tweeted: “Today I tested positive for COVID-19. I have no symptoms, and I will continue […]
Americans unhappy with Biden admin’s push to reinstate mask mandate
Tourists visiting the Big Apple told Fox News it should be a personal choice whether anyone wears masks on public transportation. “It’s not what the people want,” Mark, who was visiting from California, told Fox News. “The majority of people I believe are against that decision to appeal” and reinstate the mask mandate. A federal […]
How well is our vaccine immunity holding up against COVID-19?
Now that most U.S. cities and states have dropped masking requirements and other precautions against COVID-19, you may be wondering about your chances of getting infected or, worse, being hospitalized or dying if you happen to get sick. Researchers have been digging into that question, and in general, what they’ve found is that for people […]
Israeli study finds fourth Covid booster protection, dissipates quickly
A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. The study, published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at the health records of more than 1.25 million […]