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Today, 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, 2023Mexican officials celebrated Wednesday the announcement that the country finally developed its own covid-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations fro…
by The Associated Press May 4, 2023Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative tes…
by The Associated Press April 29, 2023Millions of Americans gathered maskless in homes and houses of worship this month for Passover, Easter and Ramadan -- the latest evidence that coronavirus has …
by Dan Diamond The Washington Post April 17, 2023Fayetteville's Board of Health on Wednesday discussed the disproportionate impact the end of the federal covid-19 public health emergency may have on low-incom…
by Stacy Ryburn April 13, 2023WASHINGTON -- When the covid-19 public health emergency ends in the U.S. next month, there will still be access to a multitude of tests but with one big differ…
by MATTHEW PERRONE The Associated Press April 12, 2023TAMPA, Fla. -- An analysis that was the basis of a recommendation from Florida's surgeon general cautioning young men against getting the covid-19 vaccine omit…
by The Associated Press April 9, 2023Covid-19 isn't "just a flu," with a study of hospital patients finding that the virus was still 60% deadlier than influenza last winter.
by JASON GALE Bloomberg News (WPNS) April 8, 2023The United States has the dubious distinction of suffering the highest covid-19 mortality rate among the world's high-income countries. But that national avera…
by Melissa Healy Los Angeles Times (TNS) April 2, 2023The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 data -- two months after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive directing the …
by Teresa Moss March 23, 2023The Arkansas Department of Health has stopped daily updates on covid-19 cases and deaths and has shifted to a new data hub with weekly updates. The data hub al…
by Teresa Moss March 22, 2023Pfizer’s covid-19 pill Paxlovid won another vote of confidence from U.S. health advisers Thursday, clearing the way for its full regulatory approval by the Foo…
by MATTHEW PERRONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS March 17, 2023It's been nearly three years since the U.S. began to implement shutdowns on March 15, 2020, in order to prevent the spread of covid-19.
by Courtney Edwards March 12, 2023The House voted unanimously Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of covid-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support as today ma…
by Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Staff and Wire Reports March 11, 2023Long covid may be behind the recent surge in women with a disability, who surpassed their male counterparts in the workforce during the pandemic, reversing his…
by ALEX TANZI and MACKENZIE HAWKINS Bloomberg News (WPNS) March 11, 2023A requirement that travelers to the U.S. from China present a negative covid-19 test before boarding their flights expired Friday after more than two months as…
by ZEKE MILLER and AAMER MADHANI The Associated Press March 11, 2023Citing declining demand, a drive-thru clinic in Central Arkansas that once saw hundreds of people a day recently became the latest covid-19 testing site to shu…
by Teresa Moss March 9, 2023Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have sued the company, claiming it failed to take appropriate precautions at its meat-pa…
by The Associated Press March 7, 2023