U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson volunteered to be injected with the coronavirus early in the pandemic to calm public fears about the new pathogen, according to his former adviser in a scathing indictment of the government’s early handling of the pandemic. “The prime minister regarded this as just a scare story,” Johnson’s former senior adviser… Read More »
The Coronavirus Outbreak Latest Updates Maps and Cases State Reopening Tracker Vaccine Rollout New Mask Guidance Vaccines and Children Advertisement Continue reading the main story Supported by Continue reading the main story How the United States Beat the Variants, for Now The country has managed to avoid a variant-fueled spike in coronavirus cases. Scientists say… Read More »
Loading the player… The U.S. government scientist who helped design one of the first COVID-19 vaccines and then tackled skepticism of the shots in communities of color is moving to Harvard in June. Kizzmekia Corbett of the National Institutes of Health will take her research into next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses to the Harvard T.H. Chan School of… Read More »
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Soldiers and police in the Pacific nation of Fiji have surrounded and locked down a major hospital. Health authorities say they are quarantining 400 patients, doctors, nurses and other staff within the compound until they can determine who had contact with a coronavirus patient who died there. The 53-year-old patient at… Read More »
A version of this story appeared in the September 16 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. At an ABC town hall in the crucial swing state of Pennsylvania, the President hit back at a question over his remarks to renowned journalist Bob Woodward… Read More »