luza studios | E+ | Getty Images Private health insurers are rolling their procedures for people to get their at-home Covid tests at little to no charge. The Biden administration announced the policy ...
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Sarah Palin’s Trial Against New York Times Delayed After She Tests Positive For Covid
Topline Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin—who recently said she would only get vaccinated “over my dead body”—tested positive for Covid-19 on Monday, the judge in her defamation case against the New York...
‘Dangerous’ To Assume Omicron Is Covid Pandemic’s Final Stage, World Health Organization Warns
Topline It’s dangerous to assume the omicron variant will mark the end of the pandemic’s most severe stage, World Health Organization boss Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned Monday. World Health Organi...
Unvaccinated Sarah Palin positive for Covid before NY Times defamation trial
Former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks while campaigning for U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at the Historic Union Station Train Shed in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., September 21, 2...
Covid pandemic at a ‘critical juncture,’ WHO’s Tedros says
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic is a...
China Risks Going To Economic Hero To ‘Zero’ In 2022
Staff members line up at attention as they prepare to spray disinfectant at Wuhan Railway Station in … [+] Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on March 24, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Imag...
China Ends Month-Long Covid Lockdown In Xi’an, New Restrictions In Beijing As Cases Rise
Topline Chinese authorities on Monday lifted a month-long pandemic lockdown in the city of Xi’an and its 13 million residents as Covid-19 cases in the region abated, ending the most stringent pandemic...
When Will Boris Go?
LONDON, ENGLAND – NOVEMBER 05: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson answers questions during a briefing … [+] on the current coronavirus pandemic, in Downing Street on November 5, 2020 in Londo...
Bitcoin’s RSI is Now at the Most Oversold Level Since the March 2020 COVID Crash
The cryptocurrency market lost over $400 billion worth of its capitalization in the past few days alone. The total market cap currently sits below $1.7 trillion. This came as most of the coins are dow...
Why Moderna, Pfizer and the NIH debate who owns the Covid vaccine
It’s been well over a year since a landmark proposal brought the issue of patent waiver for the mRNA Covid vaccine to the spotlight. But many observers don’t see that waiving the intellect...
Two years since Covid was first confirmed in U.S., the pandemic is worse than anyone imagined
People wait in line to be tested for COVID-19 at Union Station on January 7, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images A 35-year-old man returned to the U.S. from Wuhan, China on Jan....
Losses Top $130 Billion After Scientists Find Covid Boosters Aren’t Halting Omicron Infections
Topline Battered by a steep broad-market selloff this week, Moderna shares fell for a sixth-straight day Friday as experts questioned whether Covid-19 vaccine sales alone will help justify the firm...
Kids under 5 can’t get Covid vaccines. Doctors explain how to protect them during omicron
Students in the 5 day pre-K class at Immanuel Unite Church of Christ line up to go outside after helping to sort donated food items. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Covid hospitalizations a...
5 things you should know about ‘free’ at-home covid tests — Quartz
Americans keep hearing that it is important to test frequently for covid-19 at home. But just try to find an “at-home” rapid covid test in a store and at a price that makes frequent tests affordable. ...
Adele Postpones Las Vegas Residency Due To Staff Covid Infections
Topline One day before Adele’s months-long residency in Las Vegas was set to begin Friday, the singer postponed the concert series — for which tickets have been resold at upwards of $1,000 — due to co...
How Serious Is The COVID Hangover?
Netflix stocks fell 20% after the company said it missed a subscriber estimate in its earnings … [+] report. Future Publishing via Getty Images During Thursday’s Netflix NFLX earnings call, list...
GOP and Democratic governors reinstate Covid emergency orders to fight omicron surge
Ambulances outside University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Maryland, on Jan. 7, 2022. Karl Merton | Tribune News Service | Getty Images As Covid-19 cases surge across the nation, R...
Meet the ‘Covid expats’ who moved overseas during the pandemic
Jasmina007 | E+ | Getty Images LONDON — Moving overseas might not seem like the most obvious thing to do during a pandemic, but for many people, Covid-19 provided the nudge they needed to take the plu...
Students allowed despite Covid policies
Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Wednesday announced Australia will refund visa fees for vaccinated backpackers who arrive within the next three months. The country — whose tight, pandemic border poli...
Prior Covid Infection Offered More Protection Against Delta Than Vaccines — But Both Together Did Best
Topline When the coronavirus’ delta variant surged last year, vaccinated people with prior infections were less likely to catch the virus than those who only had immunity from either an earlier case o...
Federal Covid Relief Must Help People
Just before Thanksgiving, we learned that Alabama sought to spend $400M of COVID relief on new prisons—five times as much as it plans to spend on hospitals. And now as we kick off a new year, it’...
England looks to ease Covid rules while Europe is engulfed by omicron
Senior doctor Thomas Marx puts on his personal protective gear before he enters the room of a patient with Covid-19 in an intensive care unit at a hospital in Freising, southern Germany. LENNART PREIS...
Error Leaves Some People Unable To Order Covid Tests From White House’s New Website
Topline The Tuesday soft launch of COVIDtests.gov, which offers one free set of four Covid-19 tests by mail per household, was hampered by a bug that prevented some residents of apartment buildings fr...
Breast Milk Contains Covid Genetic Material But Infected Mothers Won’t Transmit Virus Through Breastfeeding, Study Finds
Topline Breastfeeding women infected with Covid-19 cannot transmit the virus through breast milk, according to a peer reviewed study published in Pediatric Research Tuesday, validating a small number ...
Some Americans blocked from ordering Biden’s free Covid tests in early website launch
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are seen in this illustration taken January 11, 2...