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As Covid Deaths Climb, Even Seniors Skip the Latest Booster

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. — Bonnie Ronk is something of a public health matriarch at the Mt. Diablo Center for seniors in this liberal Northern...

Homicides of Children Soared in the Pandemic’s First Year, CDC Reports

As the pandemic spread across the United States in 2020, the number of children who were killed rose precipitously, as did the number injured...

U.S. Will Offer Free At-Home Covid Tests as Part of Winter Plan

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration announced on Thursday that it would restart a program that provided free coronavirus tests to American households through the...

Long Covid Has Played Role in More Than 3,500 Deaths in US, CDC Says

The study found that some of the long Covid patterns related to age, sex, race and ethnicity differed from those seen in deaths caused...

Two Decades After 9/11 Inquiry, a Similar Plan for Covid Stalls in Congress

Any investigation of the pandemic would necessarily be vast and complex, encompassing topics such as better detection of new pathogens, improvements to the public...

China’s Youths, Stung by Years of Covid Rules, Fear Grim Job Future

Mandy Liu, a 21-year-old university student in Beijing, believes that anyone who has lived in China during the pandemic can see that the country’s...

China’s Looming ‘Tsunami’ of Covid Cases Will Test Its Hospitals

Until recently, China, the world’s most populous nation, was also the world’s last Covid holdout. But in a matter of weeks it will be...

Key Partner in Covax Will Stop Giving Free Vaccines to Middle-Income Nations

A key partner in Covax, the organization that has led the effort to bring Covid vaccines to poor and middle-income countries, will stop supplying...

The Covid Pandemic’s Hidden Casualties: Pregnant Women

Of all the groups still threatened by Covid-19 — including the elderly and the immunocompromised — it is pregnant women who seem the most...

House Passes $858 Billion Defense Bill Repealing Vaccine Mandate for Troops

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday overwhelmingly passed an $858 billion defense policy bill that would rescind the Pentagon’s mandate that troops receive the...

How Will China Turn Its Economy Back On? The World Is About to Find Out.

For months, investors and C.E.O.s waited anxiously for China to ease up on its Covid restrictions, which burdened the economy and were out of...

Why Protesters in China Are Using Blank Sheets of White Paper

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance.In Beijing,...

Deadly Fire in China Fuels Protests Over Xi’s Covid Policies

“We do not consider this a credible explanation,” the BBC said.Crowds also congregated in Chengdu, a city in southwest China, video from Sunday showed,...

Happy Birthday, Omicron

A single subvariant is not gaining all of the new mutations, however. Ben Murrell, a computational biologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and...

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