President Biden says the variant is a 'cause for concern, not a cause for panic' By Edmund DeMarche Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new...
Covid has been a revelation and an accelerant BY PAUL KINGSNORTH with commentary by Mark Bricca, ND I agree with this author's suppositions, and I think that, globally, we're on a slippery slope. Transformation towards unity is absolutely still possible, although at...
Japan, which has been very cautious throughout the pandemic, is again barring all nonresident foreigners. There is an economic and human cost. By Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida With the emergence of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus late last week, countries...
Cases of the Omicron variant have now been detected in 13 nations — Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Canada and South Africa By Arpan Rai Canada has confirmed the detection of two cases...
By: Mitch Lagge People lined a portion of King Avenue West in Billings on Sunday to rally in opposition of a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers and employees of any company with more than 100 workers. “We’re opposed to the mandate. Everybody...
By Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is...
Anthony Fauci said claims he lied about certain research funding in the Wuhan lab smacked of contempt for science. By Allie Bice Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday said Sen. Ted Cruz’s call to prosecute...
China could face more than 630,000 COVID-19 infections a day if it dropped its zero-tolerance policies by lifting travel curbs, according to a study by Peking University mathematicians. In the report published in China CDC Weekly by the Chinese Centre for Disease...
By Victoria Bekiempis Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said on Sunday the US has “the potential to go into a fifth wave” of coronavirus infections amid rising cases and stagnating vaccination rates. He also warned that the newly discovered...
Here’s everything we do. By Katherine J. Wu As fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern, dubbed Omicron by the World Health...
By Patrick Reilly The South African doctor who first sounded the alarm on the Omicron variant of the coronavirus said that its symptoms are “unusual but mild” in healthy patients — but she’s worried the strain could cause complications in the elderly and...
South Africa has complained it is being punished - instead of applauded - for discovering Omicron, a concerning new variant of Covid-19. The foreign ministry made the statement as countries around the world restricted travel from southern Africa as details of the...
Here's what you need to know about the potentially more contagious variant By Marc Fortier and Alison King The world is on high alert as new cases of the potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continue to get reported in Britain and across...
By Aina J. Khan and Isabella Grullón Paz As the world scrambled to prevent the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant that was first detected in southern Africa, Britain’s Health Security Agency confirmed on Saturday that two cases of the variant had been...
The WHO has classified a new variant first detected in Botswana as being "of concern" and has given it the code name "Omicron"Early evidence suggests it is more transmissible and carries a higher risk of re-infection than other variantsThe head of the lab that first...