COVID-19

The North Carolina House advanced a bill that would ban universities from requiring students to prove COVID vaccinations. The bill also prohibits schools from requiring booster shots.

When China suddenly scrapped onerous zero-COVID measures in December, the country wasn’t ready for a massive onslaught of cases. Many older people weren’t vaccinated, pharmacies lacked antivirals, and hospitals didn’t have adequate supplies or staff — leading to as many as hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been avoided, according to academic modeling, more than 20 interviews with current and former China Center for Disease Control and Prevention employees, experts and government advisors, and internal reports and directives obtained by the AP. For two years, China stood out for its tough but successful controls against the virus, credited with saving millions of lives as other countries struggled with stop-and-start lockdowns.

President Biden signed a bill that will declassify direct the federal government to declassify intelligence about the origins of COVID-19.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

Both measures received bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.

Director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, announced on Friday that he is “confident” the COVID-19 pandemic will end in 2023.

Miami Open organizers said they tried their best to get Djokovic an exception to the U.S. policy, which restricts international travelers without a COVID-19 vaccination from entering the country.

In 2003, Dr. Jiang Yanyong watched in disbelief as Chinese officials downplayed how SARS was spreading in China. He took the risky step of alerting the media to the cover-up.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott is calling for more information on how the National Institutes of Health monitors the flow of its federal grant dollars

Former President Trump on Friday released a campaign video calling for China to face "retribution" for its alleged role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

A crippling symptom of long COVID? Insomnia. CBS News spoke to a woman who experienced this, and doctors say she's not alone.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

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Pregnancy-related deaths in the United States surged during the pandemic. UN agnecies reported that a spike in maternal mortality rates occurred in all parts of the world in 2020.

Six Republican senators led by Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., are demanding the Justice Department sue the Chinese Communist Party for its role in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rate at which women – particularly Black and Hispanic women - die while pregnant, during or soon after childbirth in the U.S. was a concern even before the pandemic.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

West Virginia health figures released Wednesday show that the state has surpassed 8,000 COVID-19 deaths in the past three years. There have been 29 deaths reported this week.

A California care home and its managers are charged in connection with 14 COVID deaths. They allegedly failed to follow safety procedures that led to the deaths in 2020.

Justice demands accountability for all those who withheld and helped obscure information on the origins of the COVID pandemic.

Researchers from Dartmouth College have reported the first instance of prosopagnosia (otherwise known as “face blindness”) as a symptom following COVID-19 infection.

Zishan Alvi, 44, of Inverness, pleaded not guilty for his alleged involvement in a COVID-19 testing fraud scheme that netted his Chicago-based laboratory over $83 million from a federal pandemic relief program.

China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

While there have been far fewer deaths from COVID-19 in children than adults, COVID-19 is still one of the leading causes of childhood death in the U.S.

The eight-time Academy Award nominee canceled her appearance at Sunday's ceremony after testing positive, her publicist confirmed.

Corbin Carroll may have just 32 Major League Baseball games under his belt, but the Arizona Diamondbacks apparently really liked what they saw.

Los Angeles County coronavirus restrictions are being phased out to align with California rules. The local emergency declaration is slated to end on March 31.

Senator Josh Hawley, R-Mo., sent a letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping telling him to come clean about the origins of COVID-19 ahead of his bill hitting President Biden's desk.

The House has unanimously voted to require the Director of National Intelligence to declassify information on the origins of COVID-19. It's not clear whether or not President Biden will sign the bill.

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The bill requires the declassification of information about possible links between the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

California landlords are furious after a San Francisco supervisor unveiled a proposal to extend the COVID eviction ban three years after the pandemic began

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. The virus appears here to stay, along with the threat of a more dangerous version sweeping the planet. “New variants emerging anywhere threaten us everywhere,” said virus researcher Thomas Friedrich of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

COVID-19 dealt the final blow to some movie theaters, but before that, streaming was already forcing a shift.

A Chinese embassy official in Washington, D.C., wrote to Sen. Josh Hawley's office on Wednesday to express "grave concern" about his COVID origins bill.

As Nepal faces increasing political instability, the country's parliament is holding a presidential election. The country sees frequent changes in government.

Reps. Mike Rogers and Jim Banks condemned a Department of Defense policy that could discharge thousands of unvaccinated service members who did not apply for an exemption.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom tested positive for COVID-19 for the second time. The diagnosis comes days after his return from a heavily criticized trip to Baja California.

After 14 years in law enforcement, Joel Aylworth had to leave the San Francisco Police Dept. when he refused the COVID vaccine. He shared his personal story with Fox News Digital.

Contrary to conclusions by the Department of Energy and the FBI, the science on the pandemic's origins stacks up in favor of a jump from animals to humans.

Nicholas Wade, a former science editor at the New York Times, criticized Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday for mishandling issues surrounding COVID-19 origins.

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Calif., accused a witness at Wednesday's hearing on the origins of COVID-19 of harboring racist views, saying that Nicholas Wade's presence could discredit the entire hearing.

Former CDC director Robert Redfield, a virologist, slammed gain-of-function research as not being worth the risk during the House's COVID-19 origins select committee hearing.

Many of those who received the bivalent booster vaccine last fall are coming up on six months post-vaccination. They want to know when they can get their next booster dose.

The COVID origins hearing will showcase the former CDC director and health and science experts and focus on Dr. Fauci's role in attempting to "disprove" the lab leak theory.

Once U.S. stockpiles of COVID-19 vaccine run out, Moderna says it might charge as much as $130 per dose, but give people who lack health insurance a break. Critics say that's not enough help.

U.S. officials speaking on anonymity said covid-19 restrictions on travelers coming from China to the U.S. will be relaxed by the end of the week.

Doctors scored highest in the survey, with more than half of respondents saying they trust physicians "a great deal."

Laura Ingraham details how many government officials, including Dr. Fauci, participated in the cover-up of COVID potentially escaping from the Wuhan lab on "The Ingraham Angle."

Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have filed a lawsuit against the company.

Among the reasons cited by survey respondents were not wanting kids to miss school or an activity, and concerns about missing work to care for a child.

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CNN cast aspersions on the COVID lab-leak theory in 2020, in part due to then-president Jeff Zucker believing it was simply a "Trump talking point."

Dr. Marty Makary joined "Sunday Night in America" to discuss how masks are showing in a new study to have had almost no effect on COVID transmission despite health officials pushing masking up.

Majority staff from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic said via memo Dr. Fauci "prompted" the drafting of a publication that would "disprove" the lab leak theory.

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that caused the disease leaked from a China lab.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.

Responding to COVID-19 has taken so much attention and energy that some public health workers believe it pushed tuberculosis off people’s radar.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

China says more than 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19 since it lifted strict containment measures beginning in November.

In a story published February 13, 2023, about a congressional investigation into COVID-19 origins, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Rep. James Comer is from Tennessee.

New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers.

California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools.

The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced that it is expanding and enhancing its set of loss mitigation options used to help borrowers struggling to make mortgage payments on their FHA-insured mortgages.

The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests.

President Joe Biden has informed Congress that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared.

Russia’s embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot.

Abbott doubles down on his long-standing call to lawmakers to prohibit local governments from enacting mask and vaccine mandates.

Hong Kong's leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 starting Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return to normalcy.

China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data about the status of the pandemic.

The Pentagon has formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.

As we embark on a new year, Walmart is inviting Houston-area communities to start down the path of getting – and staying – healthy at the first Walmart Wellness Day of 2023 on Saturday.

China will not include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list that would have allowed patients to get it at a cheaper price throughout the country, saying it was too expensive.

As COVID-19 surges in China, the U.S. is expanding its traveler surveillance program, an early warning system for detecting new variants.

A virtual memorial wall created by a Houston-area couple to honor people from around the United States who have died of COVID-19 is marking two years of memorializing lives lost to the pandemic.

Misinformation about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has flared up once again, this time following the on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during a game Monday.

The European Union and China are moving closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis.

France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China.

In early 2022, Jordyn Bashford thought things were as good as they could be for a nurse amid the COVID pandemic.

Hong Kong is scrapping some of its COVID-19 restrictions, including PCR tests for inbound travelers and vaccination requirements to enter certain venues.

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy.

Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people who are older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19 after an increase in cases in neighboring China.

The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy.

A Chinese health official says the country only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that limits the numbers of deaths being reported as the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions.

Chinese health authorities have reported the nation's first COVID-19 deaths in more than two weeks.

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States.

China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as it rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to their homes, crushed economic growth and set off protests.

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military has passed the House.

The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for the next health crisis by strengthening gaps in health systems found in the continent's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. regulators have cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines to children younger than 5.

A day after China announced the rollback of some of its most stringent COVID-19 restrictions, people across the country are greeting the news with a measure of relief but also caution, as many wait to see how the new approach will be implemented.

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5.