December 30, 2021 Fauci and WHO Director-General disagree on COVID booster programs Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the World Health Organization (Who) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus do not appear to see eye to eye when it comes to booster vaccination programs during the fight against Covid.
December 29, 2021 Experts scramble to solve South Sudan’s mysterious killer outbreak Almost 100 hundred people have died in Fangak, Jonglei State in the northern part of South Sudan from an undiagnosed illness
December 29, 2021 WHO chief worried about ‘tsunami’ of omicron, delta COVID cases Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, said he’s worried about the omicron and delta variants of COVID-19 producing a “tsunami” of cases between them.
December 29, 2021 US breaks record for daily COVID-19 cases; CDC expects infections to rise as variants spread The U.S. record for daily coronavirus cases has been broken.
December 21, 2021 2021 in review: Biggest COVID-19 breakthroughs More than 800,000 Americans have died since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 15, 2021 CDC chief says omicron cases expected to grow, White House remains 'confident' schools will stay open Speaking at a White House COVID-19 Task Force Briefing, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that she expected reports of omicron cases in the U.S. to increase.
December 15, 2021 COVID-19 pandemic death toll tops 800,000 in U.S. As scientists worked to discover more about the omicron variant and more Americans received booster doses of vaccines, the U.S. death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic surpassed the 800,000 mark on Tuesday.
December 14, 2021 WHO director warns omicron spreading at rate 'not seen with any previous' variant World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a briefing Tuesday that the omicron variant of the coronavirus is spreading at a rate not seen with any other variant.
December 10, 2021 COVID-19 pandemic: Scientists focus on virus' animal origins Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery.
December 9, 2021 CDC chief says omicron COVID-19 variant mostly mild so far More than 40 people in the U.S. have been found to be infected with the omicron variant so far, and more than three-quarters of them had been vaccinated, the chief of the CDC said Wednesday. But she said nearly all of them were only mildly ill.