COVID

Coronavirus FAQ: Are we in a surge? How do you cope if your whole family catches it?

7:41am January 13, 2024

by Max Barnhart

Are we in a surge? How would we know? Is winter now "COVID season?" And what do you do if your whole family got the coronavirus over the holidays? We tackle readers' coronavirus questions.

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Coronavirus FAQ: My partner/roommate/kid got COVID. And I didn't. How come?

1:00pm January 07, 2024

by Abraar Karan

Infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan says it's the question he's asked most often about SARS-CoV-2. So how does that happen? Here's his answer.

COVID cases are rising but hospitalizations and deaths are lower than last year's respiratory virus season.

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Flu and COVID are on the rise, but there are fewer severe COVID cases than last year

7:19pm January 05, 2024

by Pien Huang

Flu is rising, and COVID levels are higher than last season's peak. But COVID hospitalizations and deaths are down. Nonetheless, COVID is still the most dangerous virus circulating.

Zone G in a quarantine center turned housing units. The complex is divided into nine zones, named after letters from A to L, a design that was meant to make quarantine management convenient. Inside each window of the building is a 190-square-foot studio, equipped with a bed, a sofa and a bathroom.

A year after lifting COVID rules, China is turning quarantine centers into apartments

7:25am December 09, 2023

by Emily Feng

Dozens of makeshift centers were built and now stand empty. Now authorities want to revive a stagnating economy and attract young workers to cities by turning the structures into affordable housing.

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School districts across the country will be able to order free COVID-19 tests from the federal government starting in early December.

Free COVID tests headed to nation's schools

5:05pm November 29, 2023

by Will Stone

Starting in early December, about 19,000 school districts will have the chance to order free rapid COVID tests from the federal stockpile for their students, staff and others in the community.

Scientists are learning more about how long COVID affects the brain.

Pain, fatigue, fuzzy thinking: How long COVID disrupts the brain

5:00am November 13, 2023

by Jon Hamilton

The neurological symptoms of COVID can persist for years after an infection. Scientists are just beginning to understand why.

Secretary-General of the Nobel Assembly Thomas Perlmann speaks in front of a picture of Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday.

Nobel Prize goes to scientists who made mRNA COVID vaccines possible

2:37pm October 02, 2023

Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Karikó and American immunologist Drew Weissman found that a chemical change to genetic code called mRNA eliminated a problematic side effect when used in vaccines.

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Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) by Kenyan-British painter Michael Armitage, was inspired by an attack on ferry passengers by paramilitary police in Nairobi. The painting hangs in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

A 'modern masterpiece' paints pandemic chaos on cloth made of fig-tree bark

8:14am September 30, 2023

by Diane Cole

Kenyan-British artist Michael Armitage painted Curfew after a violent flare-up in Mombasa, Kenya, during the early days of the pandemic. One art critic calls it a "modern masterpiece."

Frontline health care workers hold a demonstration on Labor Day outside Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles, Monday, Sep. 4, 2023.

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Overworked and understaffed: Kaiser workers are on the brink of a nationwide strike

6:58am September 29, 2023

by Danielle Kaye

More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers at hundreds of U.S. facilities could go on strike for three days starting Wednesday, in the largest health care strike in the county's history.

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The California company iHealth is one of 12 U.S. manufacturers getting an investment from the federal government to provide free tests by mail to people ahead of the winter COVID season.

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Free COVID tests by mail are back, starting Monday

11:34am September 21, 2023

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

People will be able to go to COVIDTests.gov and get four free tests per household, starting next week. The Biden administration says it is trying to prepare for the fall and winter COVID season.