Tag: Health statistics
Russia lags behind others in its COVID-19 vaccination drive
MOSCOW — While at the Park House shopping mall in northern Moscow, Vladimir Makarov saw it was offering the coronavirus vaccine to customers, so...
GOP seeks to convince vaccine skeptics within its own ranks
WASHINGTON — When a group of Republican doctors in Congress released a video selling the safety of the coronavirus vaccine, their message wasn't explicitly...
Booms in Idaho, Utah buck the curve of slowing US growth
SALT LAKE CITY — Two Western states known for their rugged landscapes and wide-open spaces are bucking the trend of sluggish U.S. population growth,...
North Macedonia looks to Chinese vaccine to revive program
SKOPJE, North Macedonia — North Macedonia received a shipment Friday of 200,000 doses of the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine following major delays in the country’s...
Greek PM: Vaccine hesitancy driving high death rate
ATHENS, Greece — Greece’s prime minister has issued an appeal for elderly Greeks to get vaccinated, blaming hesitancy for persistently high rates of death...
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...
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...
EXPLAINER: The law and science behind the CDC’s eviction ban
When the U.S. government enacted a ban on evictions, it did so through an unlikely agency: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Struggling Bosnia sees infection surge in migrants, refugees
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia is seeing a rise in coronavirus infections among migrants and refugees living in its camps, as it struggles to cope...
EU life expectancy drops across bloc amid virus pandemic
BRUSSELS — Life expectancy across much of the European Union has dropped last year, as the 27-nation bloc struggled with the impact of the...
