covid19

The UK decided to delay lifting its coronavirus restrictions by another four weeks as the delta variant continues to spread.

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Developments

The new variant doubles the risk of hospitalization.

UK Delays Reopening Over Alarming Spread of Delta COVID Variant

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.

All for One

Rx/Medicines

Unfortunately… low-income countries continue to be at back of the line or at the mercy of high-income countries."

International Vaccine Program Still Struggling After Rich Countries Hoard Shots

Revising History

Studies

The more we learn, the more we rewrite the original timeline of the pandemic.

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

Please?

"Don't nitpick about the ideas. See the big picture here."

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

Shot Number Four

Novavax doesn't use the mRNA technology found in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

Royal Caribbean's first cruise after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns already has a coronavirus outbreak after two passengers tested positive.

History Rhymes

Not again!

The First Cruise Ship Since the Pandemic Already Has a COVID Outbreak

Guangzhou, the the capital capital of China's most populous province Guandong, is experiencing a flare up of coronavirus cases.

More Covid

The highly transmissible Delta variant is on the rise across the globe.

There’s a Large New Coronavirus Outbreak in China

Author and conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf has been suspended indefinitely from Twitter after spreading anti-vaccine misinformation on the platform. 

Peace

Another one bites the dust.

Twitter Bans Prominent Anti-Vaxxer and Conspiracy Theorist

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including chlamydia and gonorrhea could soon spike as the COVID-19 pandemic winds down.

Hot Vax Summer

Are we in for a rude awakening?

Doctors Fear Huge Spike in STIs After Pandemic

Anthony Fauci doesn't endorse the lab leak hypothesis, but he does want to know why workers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were hospitalized.

Lab Leak

He wants China to release new info on the origins of the pandemic.

Fauci Wants To Know Why Three Virus Researchers in Wuhan Got Sick

Infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci still isn't ruling out the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 may have leaked from a lab.

Lab Leak Update

Fauci still believes that "the most likely origin is from an animal species to a human."

Fauci Says It’s Unlikely But Possible That COVID Virus Leaked From Lab

Chinese officials are frustrated by the growing number of US researchers and officials calling for another investigation into how the pandemic began.

Global Bickering

Calls for investigations into how the pandemic began are irritating Chinese officials.

China Is Furious That Americans Are Considering the Lab Leak Hypothesis