The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that Michigan should "close things down" to help address the country's worst coronavirus outbreak, days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer instead urged ...
Apr 13, 2021
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Few are happy with how the COVID-19 pandemic was handled in the United States in its first year: staggering infection rates, hospitals running out of beds, a death toll that topped 500,000 (as of March 1, 2021). Restaurants ...
Apr 12, 2021
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A "cluster" of patients experiencing hallucinations and memory loss has doctors in northeast Canada concerned that they're seeing a new kind of brain disease.
Apr 1, 2021
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Rural America is running short on physicians. This worries health experts who have linked limited access to primary care providers to major gaps in health outcomes for rural communities.
Mar 23, 2021
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Brazil's vast size and deficient infrastructure make getting coronavirus vaccines to far-flung communities of Indigenous peoples and descendants of slaves a particularly daunting endeavor.
Mar 19, 2021
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One year ago, California State Epidemiologist Erica Pan recalled, she was discussing the worrying spread of COVID-19 with Bay Area health officers in advance of the region's decision to issue one of the nation's first stay-at-home ...
Mar 17, 2021
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Portugal has followed the lead of other EU countries and stopped rolling out AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine after reports of "serious but rare" side effects, health chief Graca Freitas said on Monday.
Mar 15, 2021
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"B.1.1.7." "B.1.351." Before the COVID-19 pandemic, these were just a series of arbitrary letters and numbers. Now, we understand these as 'variants of concern,' versions of the SARS-CoV-2 virus with unique genetic codes.
Mar 15, 2021
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Each night it's the same. Story after story on the TV news is about the COVID vaccination effort, and they are all illustrated with footage of needles sinking into exposed upper arms.
Mar 11, 2021
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When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020, even some of the most informed people knew little about coronaviruses—and far less about SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus that was upending the world as we knew it.
Mar 10, 2021
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