This year’s top health-related Google searches are in, and Covid-19 is nowhere to be found
By Madeline Holcombe, CNN You can learn a lot from a search history. This month, Google released its annual “Year in Search” list to show…
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Oregon Health Authority ‘streamlining’ COVID-19 reports, dashboards to quarterly in January
The Oregon Health Authority said Monday it is reducing how frequently it updates several COVID-19 data dashboards and reports to improve the…
Continue Reading Don’t send Grandma to the ICU this Christmas
CNN, GETTY IMAGESW, WWNY Opinion by Allison Hope, CNN It started with one person releasing a long, productive unmasked cough into the stale, recycled…
Continue Reading Senate passes defense bill that rescinds military Covid vaccine mandate
By Clare Foran, Ted Barrett and Ali Zaslav, CNN The Senate voted on Thursday to pass sweeping legislation that would authorize $858 billion in…
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Oregon Health Authority’s monthly COVID-19 report shows rise in cases, hospitalizations, fewer deaths
The Oregon Health Authority’s COVID-19 Monthly Data Report, released Thursday, shows an increase in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, but a…
Continue Reading A trifecta of respiratory viruses — Covid, RSV and flu — is taxing hospitals across the nation
By Stephanie Elam, CNN Across the country, overflow health care workers are struggling to catch their breath as hospitals fill with sick patients…
Continue Reading China scraps virus tracking app as country braces for Covid impact
By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang and Wayne Chang, CNN China is bracing for an unprecedented wave of Covid-19 cases as it dismantles large parts of its…
Continue Reading China to abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the ‘Mobile Itinerary card,’ on Tuesday, officials say
By Sahar Akbarzai, Xiaofei Xu, Jessie Yeung and CNN’s Beijing Bureau China will abolish its Covid-19 trace tracking service, the “Mobile…
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Oregon hospitals in ‘crisis mode,’ Bend day care challenged by rise in RSV cases amid Covid-19 and flu
Hospitals are full, emergency departments are full, nurses are spread thin, and day cares are experiencing a decline in…
Continue Reading Hospitals in the US are the fullest they’ve been throughout the pandemic — but it’s not just Covid
By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data from…
Continue Reading Face masks come back to forefront amid triple threat of Covid-19, flu, RSV
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Months after most mask requirements have come to an end and many people have stopped wearing them, some of the…
Continue Reading US Secret Service accuses Chinese government-linked hackers of stealing $20 million in Covid relief
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN Chinese government-linked hackers have stolen at least $20 million in US government coronavirus relief funds, a US Secret…
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China eases controls, gives no sign when ‘zero COVID’ ends
By JOE McDONALD Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — China is easing some of the world’s most stringent anti-virus controls and authorities say new…
Continue Reading Antony Blinken says Biden administration supports zero-Covid protesters in China
CNN By Kylie Atwood, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the Biden administration supports the zero-COVID protesters in China,…
Continue Reading Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy
CNN By CNN’s Beijing bureau and Nectar Gan Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday faced unprecedented dissent after thousands of demonstrators…
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Protests over China’s COVID controls spread across country
By HUIZHONG WU and DAKE KANG Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Protests against China’s pervasive anti-virus controls that have confined…
Continue Reading As anger rises and tragedies mount, China shows no sign of budging on zero-Covid
By Selina Wang and Nectar Gan, CNN Zhou, an auto dealer in northeastern China, last saw his father alive in a video chat on the afternoon of November…
Continue Reading Protests erupt across China in unprecedented challenge to Xi Jinping’s zero-Covid policy
CNN By CNN’s Beijing bureau and Nectar Gan Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday faced unprecedented dissent after thousands of demonstrators…
Continue Reading New boosters add limited protection against Covid-19 illness, first real-world study shows
By Brenda Goodman, CNN Updated Covid-19 boosters that carry instructions to arm the body against currently circulating Omicron subvariants offer some…
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