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Home News A COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, California on February 11, 2021. (Image: © FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) A variant of the new coronavirus that first appeared in Southern California last summer has now spread to more than a dozen U.S. states and several other countries, according to…

As both vaccinations and acquired immunity spread, life will likely settle into a new normal that will resemble pre-COVID-19 days — with some major twists.The big picture: While hospitalizations and deaths are tamped down, the novel coronavirus should recede as a mortal threat to the world. But a lingering pool of unvaccinated people — and…

Load new posts Updated at 2/10/2021, 10:15:34 AM BST Mamta Badkar in New York An underlying measure of prices paid by US consumers was unchanged in January for a second consecutive month, as unemployment and reduced economic activity from coronavirus restrictions kept a lid on inflation. Figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday…

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 likely originated in animals and spread to humans, an international team of scientists from the World Health Organization said Tuesday. They also dismissed the idea that the virus was leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.…

WUHAN, China—The virus that causes Covid-19 most likely jumped from one species to another before entering the human population and is highly unlikely to have leaked from a laboratory, a leader of a World Health Organization investigative team said at a press conference here. In laying out the possibilities for the origin of the pandemic,…

More than 1,000 foreigners have seen their luck wasted — winning a coveted diversity green card lottery only to see their visas expire because of the coronavirus and former President Trump’s immigration ban. Why it matters: President Biden has been dismantling many of his predecessor’s immigration policies, yet some coronavirus-related restrictions remain — threatening at…

Load new posts Updated at 2/8/2021, 7:26:49 PM BST Harry Dempsey The chairman of the World Health Organization investigation into the origin of Covid-19 said that it was most likely that the virus in humans originated from an intermediary animal species, as he cast strong doubt on the idea that the virus came from a…

A hyper-transmissible form of the coronavirus that causes covid-19 has been found in US sewer systems in California and Florida, confirming its widening presence in the US. Buckets of dirty water drawn from sewer pipes near Los Angeles and outside Orlando starting in late January are among those in which genetic mutations shared by a…

The COVID-19 pandemic is the largest and worst relay race in history. Without vaccines or reliable treatment on the horizon, when the curve goes down in one region it goes up in another. Prevention and isolation measures remain the most effective ways to control the curve. But the disease continues to affect not only human…

The year had barely begun when stories started to emerge of a worrying number of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, caused by a mysterious new “coronavirus”. The Conversation published its first story on the outbreak on January 13. At that point, it was spreading in China, with a few people testing positive in Thailand, South…