(Reuters) – Data was withheld from World Health Organization investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the coronavirus epidemic, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday. He made the comments to the agency’s member states as a WHO-led team that spent four weeks in and around Wuhan, China, in January and […]
Senator Lindsey Graham took to Twitter on Thursday to show off a video of himself firing an AR-15, and not surprisingly, it’s drawing immediate backlash and condemnation — most notably from Parkland dad Fred Guttenberg, whose daughter Jaime was killed by the same model gun in the 2018 mass shooting that took place at Marjory […]
On Monday, NPR reported that South Dakota Republican Governor Kristi Noem signed two executive orders that would prohibit anyone from participating in an all-women’s sport team unless they were assigned female at birth. Related story Mississippi's Anti-Trans Legislation Won't Protect Anyone, But It Will Unfairly Impact Black Trans Kids The executive orders were created in […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden signs the American Rescue Plan in the Oval Office. Acknowledging that chronic underfunding of public health contributed significantly to the nation’s fragmented response to the coronavirus pandemic, Democrats included more than $100 billion in the recently enacted relief […]
GENEVA/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – The World Health Organization appealed to countries on Monday not to pause vaccination campaigns after two more European nations and one in Asia joined a handful which have suspended use of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine over safety fears. Thailand announced plans on Monday to go ahead with the Anglo-Swedish firm’s shot but Indonesia […]
Texas' attorney general is suing the city of Austin for keeping its COVID-19 mask rules in place, saying that they violate the governor's order to end the statewide mask mandate. Officials from the city of Austin and the surrounding Travis County said that they would continue requiring citizens to wear masks due to the continuing […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The next 3 months in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic are “pivotal,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, said during a news briefing Wednesday. While the rollout of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose shot as the […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. A mask required sign is displayed on the entrance to a business in Dallas. AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas is lifting its mask mandate, Gov. Greg Abbott said Tuesday, making it the largest state to end an order intended to prevent […]
Pharmaceutical competitors Merk & Co and Johnson & Johnson are teaming up in the fight against COVID-19. According to reports, President Joe Biden is scheduled to announce on Tuesday that Merk will be helping Johnson & Johnson manufacture its COVID-19 vaccine after failing to develop its own, both The Washington Post and The New York […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. NEW YORK (AP) — As states lift mask rules and ease restrictions on restaurants and other businesses because of falling case numbers, public health officials say authorities are overlooking potentially more dangerous COVID-19 variants that are quietly spreading through the U.S. […]
