Covid

A medical worker will receive the Covid-19 vaccine on April 7, 2021 at Sun Yat-sen University's First Affiliated Hospital in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China.Southern image | Visual China Group | Getty ImagesA federal judge ruled…

A United Airlines passenger plane arrives over the apartment buildings to land at Heathrow Airport in west London, UK on March 13, 2020.Matthew Childs | ReutersThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the State Department said…

Two people embrace in the middle of the dance floor at Egg London nightclub in the early hours of July 19, 2021 in London, England. Starting Monday July 19 at 12:01 p.m., England will lift most of its remaining social restrictions from…

Selective focus. Concept photo.Oleksandr Siedov | iStock editorial team | Getty ImagesLONDON - More than 500,000 people in the UK were asked to self-isolate last week by the government-backed Covid-19 Test and Trace app, with similar…

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to attend Prime Ministers Questions at the Houses of Parliament on July 7, 2021 in London, England.Chris J Ratcliffe | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesLONDON — Global scientists have…

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, founding director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at Boston University, told CNBC that from a medical standpoint, she agrees with President Joe Biden's claim that platforms like Facebook are killing…

Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday that he believes the US is significantly under counting Covid Delta infections, making it difficult to know if the highly communicable strain is causing unexpectedly high hospital admissions and death…

"HIV knocks out all the brakes on the immune system, and as a consequence you get this inflammatory response that is robust and persistent - and now you still have Covid," said Dr. Steven Deeks, an HIV expert at the University of…

The number of deaths from drug overdose in the United States hit a dismal record as the nation battled the Covid-19 pandemic at the same time. In 2020, a total of 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses, an increase of nearly 30% year…

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday that they are developing a Covid-19 booster vaccine that will target the Delta variant amid concerns about the highly communicable strain that is already the predominant form of the disease in the…