COVID-19

FILE - This Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 file photo shows influenza vaccine syringes at the L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's Community Resource Center's Free Drive-Thru vaccination event in Los Angeles. February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not in 2021. Flu has virtually disappeared, with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, Flu Has Disappeared in the US
  • 25 February 2021
Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels...
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Was a $380M Deal To Sell TGI Fridays Canceled Due to COVID?
  • 22 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic negatively impacted restaurants across the world, but the story of a TGI...
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In this 2020 photo provided by Alice Little, sex worker Alice Little poses for a picture in Bend, Ore. Little was working at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch brothel in Carson City, Nev., until it was closed, along with other legal bordellos in Nevada, under the governor's coronavirus restrictions. (Alice Little via AP)
Pandemic Makes Prostitution Taboo in Nevada’s Legal Brothels
  • 20 February 2021
These days, even in the state known for sin, the business of paying for sex...
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Did CDC Warn Against Traveling to Mexico Due to COVID-19?
  • 18 February 2021
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was called out for traveling to Cancun, Mexico, as both a...
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FILE - In this Friday, March 27, 2020 file photo, William Samuels delivers caskets to the Gerard Neufeld Funeral Home during the coronavirus pandemic in the Queens borough of New York. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021 finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Blacks losing nearly three years and Hispanics, nearly two years, according to preliminary estimates. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
US Life Expectancy Drops a Year in Pandemic, Most Since WWII
  • 18 February 2021
“What is really quite striking in these numbers is that they only reflect the first...
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This December 2020 image provided by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows a counterfeit N95 surgical mask that was seized by ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Federal investigators are probing a massive counterfeit N95 mask operation sold in at least five states to hospitals, medical facilities, and government agencies and expect the number to rise significantly in coming weeks. The fake 3M masks are at best a copyright violations and at worst unsafe fakes that put unknowing health care workers at grave risk for coronavirus. And they are becoming increasingly difficult to spot. (ICE via AP)
US Govt Seizes over 10M Phony N95 Masks in COVID-19 Probe
  • 17 February 2021
Officials encouraged medical workers and companies to go to 3Ms website for tips on how...
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Did Rush Limbaugh Downplay COVID as ‘the Common Cold’?
  • 17 February 2021
On one show in March 2020, Limbaugh also falsely claimed that news organizations weren't reporting...
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Did Biden Set US ‘Back 50 Years’ on Energy Independence Progress?
  • 15 February 2021
It is true that 2019 was the first year since 1957 in which the U.S....
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FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas. The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — if and when the shots need an update. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
COVID-19 Shots Might Be Tweaked If Variants Get Worse
  • 15 February 2021
The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome...
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The Superspreaders Behind Top COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
  • 15 February 2021
The Associated Press collaborated with the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab on a nine-month...
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In this Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020 photo provided by Kristen Pritchard Photography, Kayleigh and Cody Cousins pose for wedding photos at Mission Trails Regional Park in San Diego, Calif. They initially planned an April 2020 wedding, postponed it after the pandemic took hold, rescheduled it for December, then had to shift gears again when a new lockdown was imposed. “That was devastating,” said Kayleigh. “We said, ‘Let’s just do it on Zoom.’” (Kristen Pritchard Photography via AP)
Marriage and Divorce Amid Pandemic: Couples’ Challenges Abound
  • 14 February 2021
According to one expert, the pandemic has been particularly troublesome for spouses whose coping strategies...
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FILE - In this an. 24, 2021, file photo, people stand near a sign as they wait in line to receive the first of two doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 at a one-day vaccination clinic set up in an Amazon.com facility in Seattle and operated by Virginia Mason Franciscan Health. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
Virus May Never Go Away but Could Change Into Mild Annoyance
  • 14 February 2021
Expert: SARS-CoV-2 could just "become another animal in the zoo."
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