Tag: World Health Organization
Biden administration will end monkeypox public health emergency
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, [...]
Weekly Covid deaths have dropped to lowest since March 2020, WHO says
The World Health Organization on Tuesday said weekly new Covid deaths have fallen to the lowest level since March 2020, but warned a global decline in [...]
European countries scrap Covid rules despite warnings it’s too soon
A pedestrian zone in Oslo on Feb. 2, 2022, after Norway scrapped most of its Covid restrictions.Terje Pedersen | NTB | AFP | Getty ImagesLONDON — Seve [...]
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty ImagesCovid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecu [...]
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner's small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska.Courtesy: Mark ShrinerMark Shriner needed help. It wa [...]
Covid vaccine skepticism fueling wider anti-vax sentiment, doctors say
Protestors demonstrate against Covid vaccine mandates outside the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York, on January 5, 2022.Mike Segar | ReutersS [...]
Covid pandemic at a ‘critical juncture,’ WHO’s Tedros says
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in GenevaFabrice Coffrin [...]
Antibiotic-resistant infections are killing millions, scientists say in Lancet study
MRSA bacteriaDTKUTOO | Getty ImagesDrug-resistant bacteria killed almost 1.3 million people in 2019, scientists have estimated — more than either HIV [...]
WHO warns vaccine-resistant Covid variants could emerge amid pandemic
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus talks during a daily press briefing on COVID-19 virus at the WHO headqu [...]
WHO strongly advises against convalescent plasma for treating Covid patients
Blood collection specialist Kathryn Severson holds a bag of convalescent plasma from a recovered coronavirus patient at the Central Seattle Donor C [...]
WHO says omicron strain is variant of concern
A nurse prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for children for distribution in Montreal, Quebec on November 24, 2021.ANDREJ IVANOV | AFP | [...]
Global Covid cases and deaths rise for the first time in 2 months, WHO says
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a ceremony to launch a multiyear partnership with Qatar on maki [...]
U.S. officials keep close watch on the ‘delta plus’ mutation as it spreads in the U.K.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]
WHO says unvaccinated people are ‘dying unnecessarily’ from Covid
Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization's emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, speaks during a press conference following an emer [...]
FDA staff declines to take stance, citing unverified data
A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a mobile inoculation site in the Bronx, New York [...]