Los Angeles County eclipsed the sad milestone of 15,000 coronavirus deaths on Saturday, Jan. 23, as another 269 fatalities pushed the county’s death toll to 15,162 since the pandemic began. As the current surge continued to rage, the county has
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The Vaccinated Class
The coronavirus vaccine wasn’t supposed to be a golden ticket. A tiered and efficient rollout was meant to inoculate frontline workers and the most vulnerable before the rest of society. But scattershot and delayed distribution of the still-limited supply now
Long Lines as Beijing Starts Mass Coronavirus Testing
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Reserve guard Tomas Satoransky returns as Bulls bench strengthens
No one on the roster has had as much coronavirus bad luck as Satoransky, and while he will be on a minutes watch the next few games, he’s at least back and making an impact with the second unit. As
C.D.C. Eases Coronavirus Vaccine Rules for ‘Exceptional Circumstances’
WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has quietly changed its recommendations for coronavirus immunizations to give doctors the flexibility to handle “exceptional circumstances,” a spokeswoman said, even though the changes have not been studied in large clinical
Biden Calls Coronavirus Aid an ‘Economic Imperative’
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NY State Will Temporarily Run Out of Vaccine Doses by End of Day
New York State expects to run out of its supply of coronavirus vaccines before the end of Friday, but more doses will begin to arrive in the coming days, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced at a news conference. “We will
It’s a secret: California keeps key virus data from public
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has from the start said his coronavirus policy decisions would be driven by data shared with the public to provide maximum transparency. But with the state starting to emerge from its worst surge, his administration won’t
Allison Janney’s Costar Demanded She Sterilize Lips Before Kiss | Daily Pop | E! News
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Coronavirus Variant May Have Higher Death Rate, Johnson Says
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A Report Card for U.S. Schools
This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. For the past few months, my colleagues have
USC to play Cal as scheduled after false-positive coronavirus test
After a positive coronavirus test just before tipoff Thursday threatened another prolonged pause for USC’s men’s basketball program, further testing has given the Trojans clearance to continue. The suspected case of coronavirus which caused USC to postpone its game with
The Coronavirus Kills Mink. They May Get a Vaccine.
At least two American companies, as well as Russian researchers, are working on coronavirus vaccines for mink. The animals have grown sick and died in large numbers from the virus, which they have also passed back to people in mutated
One-shot COVID-19 vaccine may give Johnson & Johnson an edge
Less may be more when it comes to rolling out a coronavirus vaccine. Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose vaccine could have an edge over Pfizer and Moderna’s shots– even though it’s still several weeks away from approval in the US, Wall
A glimmer of hope in the U.K.: Nearly 5 million have received vaccine shots.
For weeks, Britain has reported eye-watering coronavirus death numbers, hospitals have continued to fill up, and fears are high that it will take months to control the spread of a highly transmissible variant first detected in the Kent region of
United Airlines stock tumbles after massive COVID-fueled losses
United Airlines’ stock price plunged Thursday after the coronavirus pandemic drove the carrier to its fourth consecutive quarterly loss. United shares dropped as much as 6.1 percent to $42.41 following the company’s brutal Wednesday earnings report, which showed adjusted net
Biden to sign virus measures, requires mask use to travel
Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new mutations, President Joe Biden will kick off his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a
Despite Virus Surge, I.O.C. Pledges Summer Olympics in Tokyo Will Happen
With the coronavirus surging in much of the world, including a spike in Japan, the president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday sought to quell doubts about the Summer Games in Tokyo proceeding in July while not ruling out
Biden restores ties with the World Health Organization cut by Trump.
Seeking to unify the global response to the coronavirus, President Biden on his first day in office retracted a decision by the Trump administration to withdraw from the World Health Organization. The Biden administration announced that Dr. Anthony S. Fauci,
Photos From an Inauguration Day Like No Other
The threat of the coronavirus pandemic and fears of a recurrence of the violence that rocked the Capitol two weeks ago combined to give President Biden’s swearing-in on Wednesday a look and feel like no previous inauguration. Instead of throngs
Emerging Coronavirus Variants May Pose Challenges to Vaccines
The steady drumbeat of reports about new variants of the coronavirus — first in Britain, then in South Africa, Brazil and the United States — have brought a new worry: Will vaccines protect against these altered versions of the virus?
Car Rides. Meals. On-Court Play? Tracing the Virus in the N.B.A.
Last Tuesday, the N.B.A. and its players’ union tightened their coronavirus protocols — mandating that players spend at least the next two weeks almost exclusively at home or at their hotels on the road when not playing basketball. Three days
Virtual ‘Parade Across America’ to feature dancing, drumlines and dogs.
With the coronavirus pandemic curtailing the traditional presidential parade from the Capitol to the White House, the inauguration of President Biden replaced it with a made-for-screens montage of performers from all 56 states, territories and Washington, D.C. Mr. Biden and
States report vaccine shortages and cancel appointments
The push to inoculate Americans against the coronavirus is hitting a roadblock: A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine, and tens of thousands of people who managed to get appointments for a first dose are
Big Changes to the SAT
This is the Coronavirus Schools Briefing, a guide to the seismic changes in U.S. education that are taking place during the pandemic. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. The coronavirus pandemic is hastening sweeping changes to
As virus surges, states reporting shortages of vaccine
The push to inoculate Americans against the coronavirus is hitting a roadblock: A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine, and tens of thousands of people who managed to get appointments for a first dose are
New CDC director takes over beleaguered agency amid crisis
As the coronavirus swept across the globe last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sank into the shadows, undermined by some of its own mistakes and stifled by an administration bent on downplaying the nation’s suffering. Now a
US marks a year since first coronavirus case was reported
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 400,000, and Wednesday marks exactly one year since the first COVID-19 case was reported in the country. The milestone came almost exactly a year after health officials diagnosed the nation’s first
Kohl’s, Bed Bath & Beyond dropping MyPillow brand
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, in 2020. | AP MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who has pushed claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, says several
N.Y.C. will run out of its current vaccine supply on Thursday, the mayor says. It’s not scheduled to get more until next week.
New York City expects to exhaust its supply of coronavirus vaccine on Thursday, and will then have to cancel inoculation appointments at many city inoculation sites, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio. “We will literally have nothing left to give