Tag: Pandemics
US suicides dropped last year, defying pandemic expectations
NEW YORK — The number of U.S. suicides fell nearly 6% last year amid the coronavirus pandemic — the largest annual decline in at...
California to move to statewide reopening plan in June
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has led the nation’s most populous state through the pandemic using complicated metrics, county-by-county rules and a...
COVID testing blitz undermined screening, fight against STDs
<p>WASHINGTON — After an unprecedented push to test and track COVID-19, public health workers are grappling with a worrisome side effect: a collapse in...
EU life expectancy drops across bloc amid virus pandemic
BRUSSELS — Life expectancy across much of the European Union has dropped last year, as the 27-nation bloc struggled with the impact of the...
Merkel backs ‘short, uniform lockdown’ across Germany
BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday threw her weight behind a “short, uniform lockdown” as the country grapples with a high level...
COVID testing blitz undermined screening, fight against STDs
WASHINGTON — After an unprecedented push to test and track COVID-19, public health workers are grappling with a worrisome side effect: a collapse in...
California to move to statewide reopening plan in June
<p>SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has led the nation’s most populous state through the pandemic using complicated metrics, county-by-county rules and a...
EU life expectancy drops across bloc amid virus pandemic
<p>BRUSSELS — Life expectancy across much of the European Union has dropped last year, as the 27-nation bloc struggled with the impact of the...
Merkel backs ‘short, uniform lockdown’ across Germany
<p>BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday threw her weight behind a “short, uniform lockdown” as the country grapples with a high level...
Bosnians protest over government’s pandemic handling
<p>SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Over 1,000 people marched through the Bosnian capital, Sarajevo, on Tuesday to demand the resignation of the government over what they...