Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from CDC

Extending the Mask Mandate for Air Travel 'Absolutely on the Table' Says White House COVID-19 Czar

"I know the CDC is working to develop a scientific framework," says Ashish K. Jha

Reason

CDC eases COVID travel assessment for Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Haiti

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday eased its COVID-19 travel ratings for Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Haiti.

Reuters

Biden official: Mask mandate for airplanes could be extended

Ashish Jha, the White House's new COVID-19 response coordinator, said an extension is "absolutely on the table."

Axios

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Shanghai to ease lockdown despite surge in Covid cases

China’s most populous city to allow ‘appropriate activity’ in areas where there have been no cases for at least two weeks

The Guardian - UK

Why Black and Hispanic seniors are left with a less powerful flu vaccine

At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard flu vaccine, it seems to do a better job at protecting those with weakened immune systems — a major focus…

Tribune News Service

Your urgent international travel questions answered by Simon Calder

Flight connections, baggage stress, tropical islands and cut-price dollars

The Independent UK

Psaki accuses Republicans of holding Covid funding ‘hostage’ over immigration demand

‘We need this Covid funding, and it’s really a huge disappointment to us that the Congress has left for two weeks without passing this into law’

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

COVID could be surging in the US right now and we might not even know it

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might…

Tribune News Service

Millions of bird deaths as US hit by avian flu outbreak

US officials believe nearly 24m poultry birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died of flu since virus strain identified in February

The Guardian - US

Decade after hepatitis outbreak, medical registry might end

A decade after New Hampshire stopped a traveling medical technician who had been stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, the Legislature might eliminate a registration system aimed at preventing similar misconduct

The Independent UK

Twenty-one states sue Biden administration over public transport mask mandate

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by…

Ballotpedia

Overconfidence kills: The CDC and WHO still haven’t learned how to effectively communicate uncertainty

Public health organizations took too long to acknowledge that Covid-19 was airborne — and it cost many lives.

Inverse

Pelosi’s infection brings COVID-19 closer than ever to Biden

President Joe Biden spent an hour with Nancy Pelosi in the two days before she tested positive for COVID-19, including an embrace and a kiss on the cheek — yet the White House insisted Thursday he doesn’t qualify as a “close contact” of the House speaker.

Tribune News Service

Michael Hiltzik: The anti-vaxxers' campaign against public health advocates gets scarier and more rabid

Last December, we reported on the threatening behavior of a group of anti-vaccine activists toward Kristina Lawson, the president of the Medical Board of California.

Los Angeles Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

ABC News

Nancy Pelosi tests positive for COVID after White House events with US President Joe Biden

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is currently asymptomatic, according to her spokesman, despite testing positive for COVID-19 a day after appearing unmasked at a White House event with President Joe Biden.

ABC News

Key takeaways from Senate COVID-19 committee final report

From lockdowns, to the international border closure and the vaccine rollout, a Senate committee has been scrutinising the government's response to COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. Here are some of the main points from its final report.

Tribune News Service

‘Stomach flu’ on the rise again in US. 5 things to know about noroviruses

While COVID-19 cases continue to drop in the U.S., outbreaks of another virus — the stomach flu — are ramping up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Al Jazeera

As Title 42 winds down, aid groups prepare for shift at US border

Migrant advocates and lawyers expect more people to arrive at US-Mexico border ahead of restrictive policy’s end in May.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Benzinga

Why Did FDA Pull Authorization For GSK-Vir's COVID-19 Therapy? Read Here

The U.S. health regulator said GlaxoSmithKline Plc (NYSE:GSK) and Vir Biotechnology Inc's (NASDAQ:VIR) antibody therapy was no longer authorized as a COVID-19 treatment. The decision was made as the CDC now estimates that the proportion of Covid-19 cases caused by BA.2 is above 50% nationwide. "Sotrovimab is no longer authorized to treat COVID-19 in any…

Salon

GOP holds COVID aid hostage over border

Democrats called out Republicans for holding much-need pandemic funds "hostage for an extraneous issue"

Reason

The D.C. Public Charter Schools Where Masks Are Still Mandatory

"People's irrational fears are taking over these policy decisions," says one parent.

Liverpool Echo

Warning issued over 'serious' covid symptom missing from official NHS list

A number of symptoms have been listed since the virus broke out in late 2019

Inverse

Everything you need to know about the current bird flu outbreak in the U.S.

The U.S. currently has an outbreak of bird flu, according to the CDC. But it poses little risk to humans.

Nottingham Post

The Covid symptom missing from new NHS list that WHO includes

The NHS updated its Covid symptoms list

Daily Record

The Covid symptom missing from NHS list that WHO warns is a 'serious' sign

One coronavirus symptom is listed as 'serious' by major health authorities such as the World Health Organisation and the Centre for Disease Control.

1 … 165 166 167 168

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.