New York City’s neighborhoods have been thriving in the pandemic. Should we redefine ‘comeback’?

For several weeks now, Mayor Eric Adams has been obsessively pushing a recovery agenda hinged on the return of tens of thousands of workers to offices in Midtown and Lower Manhattan. But the weekly average of new cases in New York has more than tripled over the last month, confirming the sense that every time we decide that the pandemic is behind us, it reasserts its power to obstruct...

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China's Xian imposes temporary, partial lockdown to fight Omicron flare-up

FDA authorizes first Covid-19 breath test

California delays coronavirus vaccine mandate for schools

Guatemala: As COVID misinformation spreads, vaccine doses expire

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The lack of coordination of a Guatemalan government-led campaign to overcome vaccine hesitancy has resulted in the expiration of millions of doses across the country this year, critics have said, as more than half of the population remains unvaccinated...

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Pfizer says booster in children 5-11 raises antibodies against omicron

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The additional shot, given six months after the two-dose primary series, led to a sixfold increase in antibodies against the original strain of the coronavirus...

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CDC extends travel mask requirement to May 3 as COVID rises

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“In order to assess the potential impact the rise of cases has on severe disease, including hospitalizations and deaths, and health care system capacity, the CDC order will remain in place at this time,” the agency said in a statement...

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WHO: COVID cases, deaths in Africa drop to lowest levels yet

Administration extends public health emergency for 90 days

Coronavirus pandemic pushed 77M into ‘extreme poverty’: UN

Covid-19 'superspreading' can still happen, but now we have the tools to slow it

COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever

Doctors say the pandemic is far from over amid BA.2’s emergence: ‘We are probably only in the 4th inning’

Covid Updates: U.S. Watching Uptick in Cases Closely

This invisible Covid-19 mitigation measure is finally getting the attention it deserves

"The challenge for organizations that improve air quality is that it's invisible," said Joseph Allen, director of the Healthy Buildings Program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health...

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