How to get free at-home Covid tests with your health insurance

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 ...

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...

Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit pandemic high, worrying doctors and parents

A respiratory therapist checks on Adrian James, 2, who tested positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and is on a ventilator, at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in St. Lo...

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. ...

Singapore will extend Covid booster program to teens aged 12 to 17

Students in protective masks engage in extracurricular activity in school on Jan. 6, 2022 in Singapore. Suhaimi Abdullah | NurPhoto | Getty Images Separately, Singapore shortened the isolation period ...

Covid has strained couples, families

A couple wearing face masks cry for a Covid-19 victim in Argentina. SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic has taken an immense emotional toll on humankind, with people around ...

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...

Pfizer Covid Vaccine For Kids Under 5 Could Be Authorized In The Next Month, Fauci Says

Topline Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine will hopefully be approved  for children under 5 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration “within the next month or so,” White House chief medical adviso...

Fauci says FDA could authorize Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for kids under 5 in the next month

Dr. Anthony Fauci speaks about the Omicron coronavirus variant during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, December 1, 2021. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters White House chief medical advisor Dr...

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 ...

We have a chance to end Covid emergency in 2022, WHO official says

Executive Director of the WHO Emergencies Program Mike Ryan speaks at a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland on Feb. 6, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters Covid-19 will never be eradicated, but society...

Pfizer Says Its Covid Antiviral Pill Is Effective Against Omicron Variant

Topline Pfizer released three separate laboratory studies Tuesday showing its antiviral drug Paxlovid is effective at treating the omicron variant of the coronavirus, amid uncertainty over whether som...

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...