Health officials in Washington state said Monday that four more people have died of the newcoronavirus, bringing the state's death toll, and the nation's, to six. Georgia reported its first two cases Monday, bringing the number of states with confirmed cases to 15. The disease that e...
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the U.S. political system. A December poll last year by Schoen Cooperman Research found that a majority of Americans now believe democracy in the United State is in danger of disappearing, with those aged 18 to 29 expressing the most concern....
As of Monday, new cases were growing by 5% or more, based on a weekly average to smooth out the reporting, in 29 states and Washington D.C., according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. Nationwide, daily coronavirus cases have grown nearly 20% compared with ...
The report famously asserted, “If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might have viewed it as an act of war.” It also insists that “…academic excellence [is] the primary goal of schooling [and it] seems...
United States’ COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and related policies have contained missed opportunities, errors, run counter to evidence-based medicine, and revealed limitations in the judgment of public policymakers. How can a single intervention simultaneously represent one of our greatest pandemic succ...
"Today, March 22, the first two deaths were recorded in the territory of Romania of patients infected with the new type of coronavirus," said the Strategic Communication Group, the government agency authorized to publish information on COVID-19....
FILE PHOTO: People walk next to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing sites in New York City, New York, U.S., December 12, 2022. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Thursday it will close all COVID-1...
FDA panel votes on J&J's vaccine today Vials of Johnson & Johnson's Janssen coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine candidate are seen during the Phase 3 ENSEMBLE trial in an undated photograph. Johnson & Johnson | via Reuters A key FDA advisory panel is voting Friday on whether to recommen...
population was one-third of the size it is today, so the 675,000 who died were a much bigger portion of the population, the AP reported. By Tuesday, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States had passed 676,000, according to data from Johns Hopkins Universi...
In Africa, refusal of COVID-19 and other vaccines is widespread for different reasons, including disbelief in the existence of the virus itself and faith in traditional remedies. In sub-Saharan countries, refusal is often made worse by opposition to vaccines by the religious establishments. This ...