Southern Africa Covid Cases Jump 32% As Sublineages Spread – Bloomberg

More than two years into the pandemic, chances are you or someone you know has had COVID-19, and perhaps not just once but multiple times.Some early data from researchers, including Dr. Juliet Pulliam at Stellenbosch University in South Africa shows that people are getting re-infected at a higher rate with...

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it’s up to every country to decide what policy to pursue.At a press briefing on Tuesday, WHO Director-General...

The head of the World Health Organization says China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant, but that it’s up to every country to decide what policy to pursueByThe Associated PressMay 17, 2022, 3:12 PM• 3 min readGENEVA --...

Placeholder while article actions loadFederal regulators authorized a coronavirus booster shot Tuesday for school-age children, making a third shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine available to 5-to-11-year-olds as cases rise nationally.The Food and Drug Administration cleared the booster for use at least five months after children are fully vaccinated with the...

For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta.But now experts say something is changing. Since the start of 2022, the initial version of Omicron, known as BA.1,...

You can order up to eight free at-home COVID tests — an increase from the first two rounds when the limit was four.Americans are now eligible to order a third set of at-home COVID-19 tests online for free as part of the Biden administration’s push to increase testing for the...