MEDICAL
COVID cases rising in Europe as BA.2 variant spreads
Dr. Ashish Jha joins "CBS Mornings" to discuss the rise of coronavirus cases in China and Europe and the CDC warning that the new BA.2 variant is already on the U.S. East Coast. Each weekday morning,...
How Hong Kong went from ‘zero-COVID’ to the world’s highest death rate
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s worst outbreak of the pandemic didn’t come until 2022, but the scenes are right out of 2020. Hospitals and morgues are overflowing, with bodies left unattended in hallways and in rooms with living patients. Health care workers report burnout...
Fully vaccinated will need fourth dose later this year, and new variant dubbed ‘deltacron’ detected in Europe
Fully vaccinated people will need a fourth shot later in 2022, according to the head of Pfizer Inc., who said that COVID-19 is not going to just go away in the coming years. Albert Bourla told CBS News anchor Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that people are going...
WHO laments ‘tragic’ 500,000 COVID death toll since Omicron
The World Health Organization lamented Tuesday that half a million COVID-19 deaths had been recorded since the Omicron variant was discovered, calling the toll “beyond tragic”. The WHO’s incident manager Abdi Mahamud said that 130 million cases and 500,000 deaths had...