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 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

Experts call for global genetic warning system to combat the next pandemic and antimicrobial resistance

The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world upside down. In fighting it, one of our most important weapons was genomic surveillance, based on whole genome sequencing, which collects all the genetic data of ... 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

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

US airlines ask Biden administration to block additional flights to China

The US aviation industry has asked the Biden administration to pause approval of additional flights to and from China, saying Beijing’s “existing harmful anti-competitive policies” hurt American ... Read More

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

BEIJING (AP) — The hunt for the origins of COVID-19 has gone dark in China, the victim of political infighting after a series of stalled and thwarted attempts to find the source of the virus that ... 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

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

World News

Her latest film focuses on an elementary school. Hank Silver, a timber framer based in Massachusetts, is one of a handful of foreigners who are helping to rebuild the Paris cathedral after the ... Read More