Coronavirus Pandemic

A new poll shows that most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots.

The eruption of COVID-19  across the United States last year caused the proportion of people working from home to nearly double, with the shift most pronounced among college graduates and workers in such fields as finance and professional services

The IOC has estimated around 85% of residents of the Olympic Village are vaccinated; that’s based that on what each country’s Olympic committee reports but is not an independently verified number.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

A senior Chinese health official says China cannot accept the World Health Organization’s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19

President Joe Biden is expressing pointed frustration over the slowing COVID-19 vaccination rate in the U.S. In a TV town hall in Cincinnati, Biden pleaded that it’s “gigantically important” for Americans to step up and get inoculated against the virus as it surges once again.

College football coaches around the country are spending much of the offseason urging their players to get vaccinated against the coronavirus

Fauci said that people who want to go the extra mile of safety could wear a mask indoors.

Lagging vaccination rates among nursing home staff are being linked to a national increase in COVID-19 infections and deaths at senior facilities, and are at the center of a federal investigation in a hard-hit Colorado location where disease detectives found many workers were not inoculated

U.S. life expectancy fell by a year and a half in 2020, the largest one-year decline since World War II

Three Republican U.S. House members have lost appeals challenging fines for not wearing face coverings on the House floor earlier this year.

The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its homegrown vaccines — the only locally developed shots widely used in Latin America

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is imploring unvaccinated Americans to take the COVID-19 shot