May 18 coronavirus news

Human nature may make those who are not vaccinated against Covid-19 reluctant to follow the new mask guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control ... From CNN's Clare Foran and Manu Raju ... Read More

CDC ends recommendations for social distancing and quarantine for Covid-19 control, no longer recommends test-to-stay in schools

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation should move away from restrictive measures such as quarantines and social distancing and focus on reducing severe disease from ... Read More

Factbox: Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held a ceremony to thank and praise military medics for spearheading the country's fight against the ... Read More

The US is on a Covid plateau, and no one's sure what will happen 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. Read More

COVID-19 pandemic dents medical tourism revenue

The pandemic’s travel restrictions eliminated more than $1.9 billion of medical tourism revenue in 2020 and 2021, new research shows. Read More

COVID coordinator warns pandemic could get worse if US does nothing

The White House COVID coordinator is warning that the pandemic could get really bad again if we don’t take action. Read More

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The rapidly spreading BA.5 subvariant is now causing about 80% of new COVID-19 infections in the U.S., according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For the first time ... Read More

UK economy shrank in second quarter according to poll of economists – business live

Rolling live coverage of business, economics and financial markets as analysts weigh risk of recessions across the world ... Read More

WHO: COVID-19 deaths fall overall by 9%, infections stable

LONDON (AP) — The number of coronavirus deaths fell by 9% in the last week while new cases remained relatively stable, according to the latest weekly pandemic report released by the World Health ... Read More

2 reasons why China is still in lockdowns, more than 2 years after the pandemic started — and what it'll take for life to go back to normal

More than two years into the pandemic, parts of China are still in and out of COVID-19 lockdowns. The prolonged restrictions ... and Yanzhong Huang for the Center for Strategic and International ... Read More

UK economy shrank in second quarter according to poll of economists – as it happened

The US jobs numbers last week “blew away the fears of recession which had been sparked by the news that GDP had ... suggest the recovery from coronavirus pandemic lockdowns could be short ... Read More

Coronavirus pandemic in the US

It’s going to cost lives ... The US Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency-use authorization on Friday for remdesivir in hospitalized patients with severe Covid-19. Read More

The latest on the coronavirus pandemic

There’s been a lot of news about the race to develop a coronavirus ... pandemic.” Speaking to CNN in Beijing on Friday, Terry Branstad, a former longtime Iowa governor, agreed with US ... Read More

Coronavirus updates: Starting Thursday, all critical workers in L.A. can get tested for coronavirus

The International ... said at a news conference Wednesday that the global COVID-19 pandemic was still in its early phases in many parts of the world. “This virus will be with us for a long ... Read More

CDC ends recommendations for social distancing and quarantine for Covid-19 control, no longer recommends test-to-stay in schools

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the nation should move away from restrictive measures such as quarantines and social distancing and focus on reducing severe disease from ... Read More

Coronavirus updates: Naming names, threatening people who report lockdown violations

The COVID-19 pandemic — and ... wear masks, save lives.” Maybe for the first time in decades we should begin worrying about what others are saying about us. Jeremy K.B. Kinsman, a veteran ... Read More

Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)

During this pandemic and well before, some people suffer more than others simply because of the color of their skin, what they earn, and where they live ... calls on us to make health equity part of ... Read More

The curious case of the Covid-19 rebound

Wasn't too surprising': Doctor reacts to Biden's positive Covid test This is the weekly edition of ... coronavirus rebound. The condition grabbed international attention last week when US ... Read More

More than half of Canadians say the pandemic negatively impacted their children: report

A new report has found that more than half of Canadian parents report 'negative impacts' on their children after two years of living through the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

Updates on COVID-19 Coronavirus

The program is led by Executive Director Dr. Christian Walzer. Protect Wildlife. Protect Us. The commercial wildlife trade for human consumption is leaving us exposed to the threat of deadly, zoonotic ... Read More

Why is ArriveCan still mandatory, and what is Ottawa's plan for the app?

Is the app only about COVID-19? Recent government updates to do ... been mandatory at many international borders, and online forms are increasingly being used for non-pandemic reasons. Read More

With a sniff or a swallow, new vaccines aim to put the brakes on Covid-19 spread

Injected vaccines against the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 have been hugely successful, saving nearly 20 million lives globally in their first year of use and slashing the pandemic's death ... Read More

Democrats reach deal to pass major climate bill after Sinema says yes – US politics live

Arizona senator says she will support key Biden package – follow all the latest politics news ... Read More