Opinion: The next pandemic threat demands action now

With two human cases of bird flu identified, health officials need to get ahead of a threat that some scientists fear could become next pandemic, writes Jaime M. Yassif. Read More

COVID-19 pandemic alters view that doctors are obligated to provide care: Study

The unique circumstances arising from the COVID-19 pandemic altered a long-held convention that doctors provide care regardless of personal risk. Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investiga ... Read More

COVID-19 pandemic led to ‘modest’ developmental delays in children

The COVID-19 pandemic led to only "modest" developmental delays among infants and children up to five years old. Read More

World News

By Lara Jakes Horses Run Loose Through Central London in Surreal Spectacle Having a team in the world’s richest sports ... s commonplace practices. Her latest film focuses on an elementary ... Read More

Stocks end the day higher even as blowout jobs report pushes some Fed officials to consider another rate hike

The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic quickly ... Secretary Julie Su told CNN Friday that the March jobs report shows that the US is the “strongest economy in the world.” ... Read More

Covid-19

The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the coronavirus SARS ... highest transmissibility amongst all COVID variants so far. The new Omicron variant is expected to infect 60 per cent of people in China ... Read More

Global COVID-19 Memorial Will Honor Pandemic Frontline & Essential Workers

Sally Metzler, Ph.D., the Chair of the Commission, emphasized the epic nature of the impact of the pandemic, “No other event in recent history has touched every place, citizen, & nation on Earth as ... Read More

COVID-19: Coverage of the pandemic from MPR News

Tim Walz announced the state’s first COVID-19 school closings. Students who entered high school in 2020 saw their entire experience shaped by the pandemic. Those graduating this spring say their ... Read More

china News

China refutes US accusations of aiding Russia in Ukraine, emphasizing neutrality. US criticizes China's trade with Russia, accusing indirect support to Russia's military actions in Ukraine. China ... Read More

Opinion: The next pandemic threat demands action now

But with growing evidence of potential mammal-to-mammal spread just weeks after the new ... world need to take H5N1 seriously and demonstrate that we’ve learned the lessons of the Covid-19 ... Read More