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China reported a sharp drop in new covid-related deaths during the Lunar New Year holiday, even as a spike in travel increased the likelihood of more infection…
by PHOEBE SEDGMAN Bloomberg News (TNS) January 29, 2023The Food and Drug Administration is proposing switching to a once-a-year coronavirus shot that targets the strain expected to pose the greatest threat during t…
by Laurie McGinley The Washington Post January 24, 2023Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday her official support for the constitutionality of a state ban on mask mandates, reversing a stance held by her …
by Will Langhorne January 19, 2023WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court turned away a Missouri appeal that sought to ensure states can cut taxes even as they receive $195 billion in federal pand…
by GREG STOHR Bloomberg News (TNS) January 18, 2023BEIJING -- China reported Saturday nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had covid-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data, an…
by JOE McDONALD The Associated Press January 15, 2023Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five government covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous…
by Neal Earley January 14, 2023Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergartners dropped again last year and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up.
by MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press January 14, 2023A vaccine safety monitoring system in late November picked up a signal that the updated Pfizer coronavirus vaccine booster was possibly linked to an increased …
by LAURIE MCGINLEY and LENA H. SUN The Washington Post January 14, 2023WASHINGTON -- David Kessler, who helped steer President Joe Biden's covid-19 policy, will leave the administration -- as the government's response continues to…
by JOSH WINGROVE and JEANNIE BAUMANN Bloomberg News (TNS) January 14, 2023Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday she has disbanded five covid-19 pandemic groups and committees that were established under the previous administra…
by Neal Earley January 13, 2023Japan and South Korea defended public health restrictions on travelers from China on Wednesday, a day after China stopped issuing new visas in both countries i…
by The Associated Press January 11, 2023After years of separation from his wife in mainland China, Hong Kong resident Cheung Seng-bun made sure to be among the first in line after the reopening Sunda…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports January 9, 2023The European Union on Wednesday "strongly encouraged" its member states to impose pre-departure covid-19 testing of passengers from China, in a move that is li…
by RAF CASERT The Associated Press January 5, 2023BEIJING -- The Chinese government sharply criticized covid-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China and threatened countermeasures against coun…
by KEN MORITSUGU The Associated Press January 4, 2023No novel covid-19 variants have emerged in China, according to a global consortium that's tracking coronavirus mutations, potentially easing concerns that the …
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 31, 2022After two recent flights from China brought almost 100 coronavirus-infected passengers to Milan, Italy on Wednesday announced that all arrivals from China woul…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports December 30, 2022China is planning to calculate, then release, excess mortality data as a record wave of infections engulfs the country and doubts grow about the accuracy of it…
by Bloomberg News December 30, 2022As 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, 2022