by owner | May 15, 2022 | News, North Korea
For almost two-and-a-half years, North Korea has stuck to its claim it has seen no cases of Covid-19. Not any more. This week, the country confirmed its first infections. The highly reclusive nation had responded to the pandemic by closing its borders, although...
by owner | May 13, 2022 | Testing
One tragic fact about the nearly 1 million people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. is that a huge share of them didn’t have to. In Tennessee, 11,047 of the people who died could have survived if everyone in the state had gotten vaccinated. In Ohio, that number...
by owner | May 13, 2022 | Medicine
(Bloomberg) — As a stealth wave of Covid makes its way across the U.S., those who have so far evaded the virus are now falling ill — while others are catching Covid for a second, third or even fourth time.Several factors have conspired to make the state of the...
by owner | May 12, 2022 | News, U.S.
President Biden issued a statement on Thursday preemptively marking a milestone that once seemed unimaginable: 1 million COVID-19 deaths in the United States. “Today, we mark a tragic milestone: 1 million American lives lost to COVID-19. One million empty chairs...
by owner | May 10, 2022 | Medicine, U.S.
The majority of Moderna’s (MNRA) revenue comes from governments abroad — which are bracing are for an ongoing need for COVID-19 vaccines this year. While the U.S. waits on funding and for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to decide on which virus...
by owner | May 9, 2022 | D.C., Medicine
When her partner tested positive for the coronavirus two days before Christmas, Michelle Green worried she, too, would become ill. She was two months pregnant with their second child. He was a bartender at the time, and some of his co-workers were infected with the...
