Coronavirus Pandemic

A man who mocked COVID-19 vaccinations has died at a Los Angeles-area hospital after contracting the virus. Stephen Harmon was 34.

The number of NFL players who are in the COVID-19 vaccination process has reached 80%, with nine teams having 90% or more of their players in that category

As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics kicked off on Friday, Japan unveiled an opening ceremony unlike any games before. From a moment of silence for the victims of the coronavirus pandemic to unique callouts to Japanese culture, here are the top 10 moments from the Olympics opening ceremony.

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

Boxer Arisa Tsubata may not have qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, but she still had her moment during the Opening Ceremony on Friday: The middleweight boxer is also a nurse who cared for COVID-19 patients during the pandemic, and was showcased during the ceremony’s opening sequence.

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.

About 83% of Team USA Olympians have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, leaving approximately 100 U.S. athletes who remain unvaccinated.

The NFL has informed teams they could potentially forfeit a game due to a COVID-19 outbreak among non-vaccinated players and players on both teams wouldn’t get paid that week.

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

December 2020 marked one year since Wuhan, China, reported the world’s first cases of COVID-19. Now, life in the city is largely back to normal.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

At least two fully vaccinated Olympians on Team USA’s roster have tested positive for COVID-19 and neither of the two female athletes reported feeling any symptoms. Health experts say these breakthrough cases are rare and expected.

Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19

The U.S. surgeon general says he’s worried about what lies ahead with cases of COVID-19 increasing in every state, millions still unvaccinated and a highly contagious virus variant spreading rapidly.

The first resident of the Olympic Village at the Tokyo Summer Games has tested positive for COVID-19