Tag: Epidemics
Arizona third-grader holds food drives to help in pandemic
CHANDLER, Ariz. — Neighbors walked by during their morning stroll, passing families waved from their bikes and drivers slowed down long enough to read...
India’s capital to lock down as nation’s virus cases top 15M
NEW DELHI — New Delhi was being put under a weeklong lockdown Monday night as an explosive surge in coronavirus cases pushed the India's...
UK’s Johnson cancels India trip as its virus cases surge
LONDON — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called off a trip to India amid surging coronavirus cases in the country.
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Public health seeks steady funding, not feast or famine
Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paying for masks,...
Public health seeks steady funding, not feast or famine
Congress has poured tens of billions of dollars into state and local public health departments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, paying for masks,...
Germany expects vaccine deliveries to ramp up in 2nd quarter
BERLIN — Germany's health minister on Monday welcomed the announcement by two pharmaeutical companies that they will deliver more coronavirus vaccines during the second...
Germany expects vaccine deliveries to ramp up in 2nd quarter
BERLIN — Germany's health minister on Monday welcomed the announcement by two pharmaeutical companies that they will deliver more coronavirus vaccines during the second...
Swedish teen Thunberg joins fight against vaccine inequity
GENEVA — Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged governments, vaccine developers and the world to “step up their game” to fight vaccine inequity...
Remote Alaska villages boast high vaccination rates
JUNEAU, Alaska — John Waghiyi remembers rushing his cousin to the clinic in the Bering Sea city of Savoonga in December, worried he was...
Bitter experience helps French ICUs crest latest virus wave
ROUEN, France — Slowly suffocating in a French intensive care ward, Patrick Aricique feared he would die from his diseased lungs that felt “completely...
