Tag: Disease outbreaks
Foundation to spend $1.3B to vaccinate Africans for COVID
One of the world's largest foundations will spend $1.3 billion over the next three years to acquire and deliver COVID-19 vaccines for more than...
Indianapolis ends COVID-19 mask mandate for fully vaccinated
INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis ended its mask mandate for people fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on Tuesday, hours after the City-County Council approved a measure easing...
Union vote authorizes strike at South Dakota pork plant
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — The union at a Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in South Dakota said it will head to contract negotiations Tuesday...
Library of Congress gets health workers’ audio COVID diaries
WASHINGTON — The Library of Congress has acquired a digital archive of the real-time impressions of more than 200 frontline health care workers documenting...
Ex-Wisconsin pharmacist gets prison for ruining vaccine
MILWAUKEE — A former pharmacist in Wisconsin who purposefully ruined more than 500 doses of COVID-19 vaccine was sentenced to three years in prison...
US increasingly unlikely to meet Biden’s July 4 vax goal
WASHINGTON — For months, President Joe Biden has laid out goal after goal for taming the coronavirus pandemic and then exceeded his own benchmarks....
Study: US ski areas rebound despite COVID-19 restrictions
DENVER — Ski areas across the United States experienced a strong rebound this winter despite public health restrictions put in place amid the coronavirus...
Music fans flock to Albania’s beach festival despite virus
RANA E HEDHUN, Albania — The Albanian beach site had everything in one place: pine trees, sand, sea, nearby mountains and days of nonstop...
As India’s surge wanes, families deal with the devastation
LUCKNOW, India — Two months ago Radha Gobindo Pramanik and his wife threw a party to celebrate their daughter's pregnancy and the upcoming birth...
Polio: When vaccines and re-emergence were just as daunting
CINCINNATI — The COVID-19 pandemic and the distribution of the vaccines that will prevent it have surfaced haunting memories for Americans who lived through...