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As China resumes issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years -- setting up a po…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports December 29, 2022Persistent loss of smell, or anosmia, as experts call it, is one of long covid's strangest symptoms -- and researchers may be one step closer to figuring it ou…
by KELSEY ABLES The Washington Post December 25, 2022As China grapples with its first-ever national covid-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.
by DAKE KANG The Associated Press December 25, 2022Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 43 miles southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-la…
by The Associated Press December 24, 2022Nearly 37 million people in China may have been infected with covid-19 on a single day this week, according to estimates from the government's top health autho…
by Bloomberg News (WPNS) December 24, 2022U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the covid-19 vaccine after the mandate was lifted under an $858 billion defense spendin…
by The Associated Press December 23, 2022India tests airport arrivals for covid-19
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports December 23, 2022The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is "very concerned" about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country…
by The Associated Press December 22, 2022BEIJING -- Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of covid-19 to go to work this week, as its rollback of virus-containment measu…
by DAKE KANG and KEN MORITSUGU The Associated Press December 21, 2022Adults who received the updated covid-19 booster shots are better protected against severe disease than those who haven't, cutting their risk of having to visi…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 17, 2022The Biden administration on Thursday restarted a program that provides free coronavirus tests to U.S. households through the Postal Service, part of a new push…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 16, 2022A study released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics found that more than 3,500 Americans died of long-covid-related illness in the first 2½…
by COMPILED BY DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS December 15, 2022MIAMI -- Former Florida Department of Health data analyst turned whistleblower Rebekah Jones reached an agreement with state prosecutors to dismiss the crimina…
by Camellia Burris The Miami Herald (TNS) December 13, 2022HELENA, Mont. -- A person's choice to decline vaccinations does not outweigh public health and safety requirements in medical settings, a federal judge ruled i…
by AMY BETH HANSON The Associated Press December 13, 2022Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing…
by The Associated Press December 12, 2022BEIJING -- Facing a surge in covid-19 cases, China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as it rolls back antivirus c…
by JOE McDONALD The Associated Press December 12, 2022Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing…
by The Associated Press December 11, 2022A rash of covid-19 cases in schools and businesses were reported Friday in areas across China after the ruling Communist Party loosened anti-virus rules as it …
by JOE McDONALD The Associated Press December 10, 2022U.S. regulators on Thursday cleared doses of the updated covid-19 vaccines for children younger than 5. Also, medical experts are renewing their plea to anothe…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 9, 2022The coronavirus pandemic interrupted efforts to control malaria, resulting in 63,000 additional deaths and 13 million more infections globally over two years, …
by MARIA CHENG The Associated Press December 9, 2022