LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday a new national lockdown for England until at least mid-February to combat a fast-spreading new variant of the coronavirus, even as Britain ramped up its vaccination program by becoming the first nation to start using the shot developed by Oxford University and drugmaker AstraZeneca.
Johnson said people must stay at home again, as they were ordered to do so in the first wave of the...
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday pushed back on President Donald Trump's claims that the U.S. coronavirus death toll is "exaggerated."
During an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Fauci said:
"The numbers are real. We have well over 300,000 deaths. We are averaging two- to three thousand deaths per day."
He told host Chuck Todd:
"All you need to do, Chuck, is to go into the trenches, go into the hospitals, go into the intensive care...
Incoming Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and another new Republican House member were involved in a dispute over coronavirus masks as the 117th Congress met for the first time on Sunday.
Pope Francis has condemned people who traveled abroad for a vacation and avoid Covid-19 lockdowns, adding that holidaymakers were not considering the effect of their actions on others.
Rome (CNN) — Pope Francis has condemned people who traveled abroad for a vacation and avoid Covid-19 lockdowns, adding that holidaymakers were not considering the effect of their actions on others.
Broward County senior citizens 65 years old and older who were lucky enough to score an appointment will be lining up starting Sunday to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as two drive-thru locations open.
Adult film star Cherie DeVille writes about why those in the adult industry and beyond are worried about what anti-sex work VP-elect Harris will bring to the White House.
President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that "things will get worse before they get better" when it comes to the pandemic.
Significant numbers of coronavirus patients experience long-term symptoms that send them back to the hospital, taxing an already overburdened health system.
An Ohio death row inmate who survived an attempt to execute him by lethal injection in 2009 died Monday of possible complications of Covid-19, the state prisons system said.
Kaiser Health News – In late summer, as researchers accelerated the first clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines for humans, a group of scientists in Colorado worked to inoculate a far more fragile species.
About 120 black-footed ferrets, among the most endangered mammals in North America, were injected with an experimental COVID vaccine aimed at protecting the small, weasel-like creatures rescued from the brink of extinction four decades ago.
The effort came months before U.S. Department of...
NPR – Dr. James Phillips, the Walter Reed physician who criticized President Trump's decision to greet supporters outside the facility where he was being treated for COVID-19, has worked his last shift at the hospital.
"I stand by my words, and I regret nothing," Phillips wrote on Twitter.
The doctor's pending removal from the work schedule at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center was reported in early December – two months after Phillips slammed the president's...
WUSF Public Media – Hillsborough residents interested in filling out the county's survey about coronavirus vaccines only have a few days left to do so.
The county began asking residents for input earlier this month and the survey is available until Dec. 30.
Terri Cordova-Hewitt, Hillsborough’s Division Director of Digital Media, said:
“We really wanted to get information from our residents about their concerns and barriers about the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The survey asks questions about whether residents feel...