coronavirus

An employee cleans the grounds behind the closed gates of Disneyland Park on the first day of the Disneyland and Disney California Adventure theme parks closure in Anaheim, California on March 14, 2020.DAVID MCNEW | AFP | Getty…

Instagram on Wednesday deleted the report by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the political scion and prominent anti-vaccine activist, for providing false information related to the coronavirus."We removed this account because we repeatedly shared…

Ron Votral will receive a vaccine against coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on February 9, 2021 at a drive-through vaccination center in Robstown, Texas.Go Nakamura | ReutersLONDON - A variant of the coronavirus, which first appeared in the…

Chancellor Angela Merkel wears a protective face mask when leaving the country after speaking to the media at her annual summer press conference in Berlin on August 28, 2020 during the coronavirus pandemic.Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency |…

The mutant strain of coronavirus, first identified in the UK, remains at low levels in the US, but doubles its range roughly every 10 days, according to a study published by researchers on Sunday.The study helped model the Centers for…

The United States is at great risk of repeating a key mistake: responding to the coronavirus rather than being one step ahead of it.One of the biggest mistakes in dealing with the Covid-19 health crisis has been moving too slowly, reacting…

In the past few weeks, scientists have been raising the alarm about new variants of the coronavirus that carry a handful of tiny mutations, some of which appear to make vaccines less effective.But it's not just these small genetic changes…

The Covid-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University protected people from a new, more contagious variant of coronavirus on a similar level as protection against other lineages of the virus, Oxford researchers said in an…

Thousands of healthcare workers have already paid the highest price for their daily dedication. Since March, more than 3,300 nurses, doctors, social workers and physiotherapists have died of Covid-19, according to a balance sheet by Kaiser…

The scattered reports from across the country can seem like a cruel irony: someone tests positive for the coronavirus despite having already received one or both doses of a Covid-19 vaccine.Notable examplesIt recently happened to at least…