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What the end of a COVID vaccine access program means for uninsured Americans
As new, highly contagious mutations are making this summer's COVID surge significantly bigger than expected, the FDA approved updated COVID vaccines on Friday. But funding runs out…
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7 min
What to know about this summer's major surge in COVID infections
As summer winds down, much of the U.S. is seeing the biggest COVID wave in at least two years, and hundreds of people are still being killed by the virus every week. According to a…
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2 min
News Wrap: Thousands in northern Ukraine lose power after Russian drone attack
In our news wrap Saturday, Iran has a new president-elect after a runoff vote, Russian drone attacks hit a vital energy facility in northern Ukraine, Hamas dropped a key demand in…
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5 min
As COVID precautions vanish, people with disabilities struggle with safety and isolation
The pace of COVID fatalities in the U.S. has slowed significantly, with the nation's death toll standing at more than 1 million people. With precautions like mandatory masking no l…
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7 min
What to know about new COVID variants and the spread of bird flu and measles
Hospitalizations for COVID are at an all-time low four years after the start of the pandemic, but new variants are in circulation. Meanwhile, bird flu has been found in 36 dairy he…
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7 min
COVID is surging again. Here's what to know and why experts encourage caution
The U.S. is experiencing another uptick in COVID infections after the holidays, with hospitalizations rising for the eighth week in a row. A new dominant variant, JN.1, has quickly…
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Your questions answered about staying safe from COVID, RSV and flu this winter
As we head into the winter holidays, John Yang speaks with epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina about the current state of affairs with COVID, RSV and flu infections, lagging vaccinatio…
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7 min
What to know about the COVID pandemic as public health emergencies end
This week, the World Health Organization ended the global public health emergency it declared three years ago as COVID-19 spread around the world. Meanwhile, the U.S. public health…
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7 min
Why the CDC is loosening some of its COVID-19 guidelines
As students and teachers across the U.S. prepare to head back to school, the CDC is relaxing its COVID-19 guidelines. It marks a significant shift in how the nation approaches the…
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8 min
An epidemiologist answers viewers' questions about COVID-19
More than two years into the pandemic, most Americans have returned to a sense of some normalcy. But the virus is still disrupting daily life in the U.S. with more than 130,000 per…
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7 min
Compelling new evidence tracks COVID's origin to Wuhan market
From the start of the pandemic, scientists have tried to determine exactly where and how the novel coronavirus spread to humans. New studies conclude the virus first emerged from a…
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7 min
New COVID variant BA.5 prompts higher infections and reinfections
A new coronavirus variant called BA.5 is fueling yet another wave of COVID infections across the globe. This week, the CDC said BA.5 is now the dominant strain in the U.S. accounti…
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8 min
White House COVID coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha on the rise in new variants
With vaccinations, boosters and drugs, COVID has become a far less deadly risk for most Americans than earlier in the pandemic. But COVID still presents numerous problems, particul…
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10 min
Students worldwide suffer education setbacks from pandemic school closures
One of the major consequences of the coronavirus is that children around the world have been unable to attend schools to learn and are too poor to have computers and thus can't lea…
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8 min
Chinatowns across the U.S. are struggling to recover from the pandemic
The pandemic threatened business districts across the country, but misguided fears and rhetoric about Asian Americans made things particularly hard for Chinatown neighborhoods. Joh…
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6 min
North Korea scrambles to contain coronavirus outbreak while trying to flex its power
China and Russia on Thursday blocked a U.S. attempt in the United Nations Security Council to punish North Korea for testing missiles that are banned by previous resolutions by the…
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White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha discusses the growing virus surge
A new COVID wave is accelerating across the U.S. with cases rising in almost every state. New daily cases are up by more than 50 percent from just two weeks ago, while COVID-relate…
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Dr. Fauci on the state of the pandemic as the U.S. marks 1 million COVID-19 deaths
President Biden on Thursday marked the U.S. nearing one million lives lost due to the pandemic and called on Congress to pass funding for more COVID relief. The pandemic has claime…
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7 min
Can the 'vaccine for the world' help end the global pandemic?
It's a tiny vial with big ambitions to help bring an end to the pandemic everywhere on earth. The developers of the so-called "vaccine for the world" hope what's inside can ease th…
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Dr. Fauci on why the U.S. is 'out of the pandemic phase'
As COVID cases begin to pick up across the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday said that three out of every four children have been infected by COVID. Th…