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STOCKHOLM -- Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against covid-19 that were critic…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports October 3, 2023When it became clear in early 2020 that the Sars-CoV-2 virus posed a pandemic threat, researchers who'd been exploring using messenger RNA to develop vaccines …
by Robert Langreth Bloomberg October 3, 2023The Arkansas House of Representatives on Wednesday handily approved a bill intended to reinstate a ban on covid-19 vaccine mandates for public entities.
by Will Langhorne September 14, 2023When presenting his bill to the House, Rep. Howard Beaty, R-Crossett, said the legalization is needed to "send a message to the employees of this state that we…
by Will Langhorne September 13, 2023A bill intended to extend a ban on covid-19 vaccine mandates for public entities ranging from schools to state agencies sailed through the Arkansas Senate on T…
by Will Langhorne September 13, 2023A bill intended to extend a ban on covid-19 vaccine mandates for public entities sailed through the Arkansas Senate on Tuesday.
by Will Langhorne September 12, 2023An Arkansas Senate panel approved a bill Monday that would extend a ban on covid-19 vaccine mandates for public entities.
by Will Langhorne September 12, 2023The U.S. approved updated covid-19 vaccines Monday, hoping to rev up protection against the latest coronavirus strains and blunt any surge this fall and winter.
by Associated Press September 11, 2023Covid-19 cases have been on the rise in Arkansas, likely driven by students' return to school last month.
by Caitlan Butler September 2, 2023With coronavirus cases increasingly on the upswing across the nation, an updated covid-19 vaccine is likely to come out even earlier than expected.
by COMPILED BY DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS August 27, 2023Covid-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers.
by CARLA K. JOHNSON The Associated Press August 9, 2023Habitual nose picking is associated with an increased risk of contracting the coronavirus, researchers in the Netherlands found.
by Lindsey Bever The Washington Post August 6, 2023FAYETTEVILLE -- The Washington County jail has seen a recent spike in the number of detainees testing positive for covid-19.
by Tom Sissom August 2, 2023The House panel investigating the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic heard testimony Tuesday from influential virologists who concluded in 2020 …
by Dan Diamond The Washington Post July 12, 2023U.S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected some points raised by those who argue that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, instead reit…
by NOMAAN MERCHANT The Associated Press June 25, 2023The Food and Drug Administration's scientific advisers said Thursday that the next round of shots in the U.S. should only include protection against the newest…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports June 16, 2023WASHINGTON -- In the greatest grift in U.S. history, thieves plundered billions of dollars in federal covid-19 relief aid intended to combat the worst pandemic…
by RICHARD LARDNER, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and AARON KESSLER The Associated Press June 13, 2023Today, three years and 100 days after the Trump administration declared the coronavirus a public health emergency, the Biden administration will allow the emer…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports May 11, 2023The World Health Organization announced Friday that it was ending the emergency it declared for covid-19 more than three years ago, a milestone in the fitful e…
by Democrat-Gazette staff and wire reports May 6, 2023Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States last year, dropping from its place as the third leading cause in 2020 and 2021, when virus …
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports May 5, 2023