By Jacqueline Howard, CNN A new paper adds to the mounting evidence that school-age children across the globe experienced significant setbacks in their learning progress during the Covid-19 pandemic. Students “lost out on about 35% of a normal school year’s worth of learning” when in-person learning stopped during the public health crisis, according to a
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Use of marijuana and other substances dropped in teenagers during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new study. But adults’ use of cannabis, illegal drugs and alcohol, including binge drinking, either stayed the same or increased compared to the two years before Covid-19. “Substance use decreased between 2019
Continue Reading The number of babies born each year in the United States has been steadily dropping since the Great Recession of 2008.
Continue Reading COVID-19 remains a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Monday, but it acknowledged the pandemic is at a “transition point.”
Continue Reading COVID-19 has become the eighth most common cause of death among children in the United States, according to a study published Monday.
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China saw 226 million domestic trips during the Lunar New Year holiday, state media reported, a 74% surge from last year after the government lifted all travel curbs under its now-abandoned zero-Covid policy. For the first time in three years, Chinese people were free to travel without the
Continue Reading By Nectar Gan and CNN’s Beijing bureau China saw 226 million domestic trips during the Lunar New Year holiday, state media reported, a 74% surge from last year after the government lifted all travel curbs under its now-abandoned zero-Covid policy. For the first time in three years, Chinese people were free to travel without the
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN Havasu Falls, one of the most intriguing features of the Grand Canyon system, will be reopening to visitors after a three-year closure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. But it’s with a catch. The reopening is scheduled for February 1; however, access will be limited initially to a certain, small group. People
Continue Reading The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday halted the emergency use authorization of Evusheld because it does not appear to protect against COVID-19 from viral variants currently circulating in the United States.
Continue Reading A panel of independent experts that advises the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions will hold a full day of meetings Thursday to consider what the future of COVID-19 vaccination should look like in the United States.
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Idaho officials reported 676 new COVID-19 cases and 13 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading The updated boosters are cutting the risk that a person will get sick from COVID-19 by about half, even against infections caused by the rapidly spreading XBB.1.5 subvariant.
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ironing out the “logistical and legal” aspects of testing wastewater from airplanes for coronavirus variants as it continues to explore such an infectious disease monitoring program.
Continue Reading The US Food and Drug Administration wants to simplify the COVID-19 vaccine process to look more like what happens with the flu vaccine, according to documents posted online on Monday.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau Eight in 10 people in China have now been infected with Covid-19, a prominent government scientist has claimed. Wu Zunyou, the chief epidemiologist of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Saturday — the eve of the Lunar New Year — that the present “wave of epidemic has already
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Governor Mark Gordon has received results of a COVID-19 test that showed he is positive for the virus.
Continue Reading Friday marks three years since the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the United States.
Continue Reading By Emiko Jozuka, Junko Ogura, Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Japan will consider downgrading Covid-19 to the same category as seasonal influenza this spring, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Friday. Kishida said he had instructed Health Ministry officials to discuss the move and his administration would also review rules on face masks and other
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 659 new COVID-19 cases and 5 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading When COVID-19 patients younger than 5 also test positive for another respiratory virus, they tend to become sicker and develop more severe disease, a new study suggests.
Continue Reading COVID-19 has killed more than 1 million people in the United States since the start of the pandemic, and life expectancy has been cut by nearly 2.5 years since 2020.
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN China’s economy expanded by just 3% in 2022, far below the government’s own target, marking one of the worst performances in nearly half a century. Growth was impacted heavily by months of widespread Covid lockdowns and a historic downturn in the property market. Still, the number came in slightly better than
Continue Reading By Alicia Wallace, CNN The pandemic dislodged the global supply chain, hurling once smoothly running businesses, industries and economies into a state of disarray. After almost three years of enduring wild swings and extremes, the system is slowly getting up to speed and into better sync: Ocean freight timelines are on a steady decline, ports
Continue Reading Jessica Rosario loved watching her 15-year-old, Eliana, play flute with the rest of the marching band during Open Door Christian School football games.
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By Jennifer Ferreira Click here for updates on this story Toronto (CTV Network) — When Julie Wright joined her family for breakfast on Christmas morning, her meal looked identical to what she ate exactly one year ago. The only difference now was that she couldn’t taste her food. “I can tell the odd time [whether]
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By Eliza Kruczynski Click here for updates on this story ROCKY HILL, Connecticut (WFSB) — While hospitalizations are down by about 100 people in the last week, the CDC is still warning almost all counties in Connecticut to take precautions by wearing a mask in public indoor spaces. The CDC has listed seven Connecticut counties:
Continue Reading By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN With children back in school and daycare after the holidays, weary parents fear what illness awaits them next during this brutal respiratory virus season. Since October, RSV, a respiratory virus which often is most severe in young children and older adults, hit early and cases started rising quickly. Cases of influenza
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau Close to 60,000 people have died of Covid in China since the country abruptly abandoned its tight “zero-Covid” policy in early December, a medical official from the National Health Commission (NHC) told a press conference in Beijing on Saturday. Jiao Yahui, head of the NHC’s medical affairs department, said China recorded
Continue Reading The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday said there is a possible safety issue with the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech, but it’s unlikely it represents a true risk. The agency said it continues to recommend people stay up-to-date COVID-19 vaccines.
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Convalescent plasma — a once-celebrated treatment for Covid-19 that has largely fallen out of favor — does work well for people who are immune-compromised, according to a study published Thursday. The report in the journal JAMA Network Open analyzed the results of nine studies and found that immune-compromised
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN You may have heard that there’s a new Omicron spinoff that’s quickly gaining ground in the United States. Maybe you wanted to ask your doctor about it or search for more information online — but what was it called again? Exactly. Scientists know it as XBB.1.5, a name assigned because it
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HeyTutor cited data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to examine the impact of the pandemic on teacher shortages, exploring new policies and initiatives school districts have implemented to counter this issue.
Continue Reading The majority of long COVID symptoms resolve within the first year after infection for people with mild cases of COVID-19, according to a large study conducted in Israel.
Continue Reading A new COVID-19 variant, XBB.1.5, is spreading rapidly throughout the United States.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 941 new COVID-19 cases and 19 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading Some vaccine advisers to the federal government say they’re “disappointed” and “angry” that government scientists and the pharmaceutical company Moderna didn’t present a set of infection data on the company’s new COVID-19 booster during meetings last year when the advisers discussed whether the shot should be authorized and made available to the public.
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein and Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration on Wednesday again renewed the Covid-19 public health emergency, a provision that gives the administration authorities to respond to the pandemic as cases are again on the rise. US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra renewed the declaration on its expiration date — an
Continue Reading By Haley Britzky, CNN Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has officially rescinded the military’s Covid-19 vaccination mandate for troops after President Joe Biden signed the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, requiring its dismissal. “Section 525 of the NDAA for FY 2023 requires me to rescind the mandate that members of the armed forces be vaccinated
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By Matt Reed Click here for updates on this story CHELSEA, Massachusetts (WCVB) — Chelsea Public Schools has implemented a mask mandate for students and staff after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designated Suffolk County as “High Risk” for COVID-19 transmission. The designation includes a recommendation that all people should wear masks while
Continue Reading First, the respiratory virus season brought us RSV to worry about, and then came influenza. Now, COVID-19, which had taken a back seat to those viruses, is once again becoming a menace, and health officials are urging people to stay vigilant.
Continue Reading By Brenda Goodman, CNN Health experts voiced concern Wednesday over the rapid growth of the new Omicron sublineage XBB.1.5, advising the public to stay informed but not alarmed as they work to learn more. Over the month of December, the percentage of new Covid-19 infections in the United States caused by XBB.1.5 rose from an
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,125 new COVID-19 cases and 17 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, CNN The World Health Organization has accused China of “under-representing” the severity of its Covid outbreak and criticized its “narrow” definition of what constitutes a Covid death, as top global health officials urge Beijing to share more data about the explosive spread. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable
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Best Universities used data from the National Student Clearinghouse Center to look at enrollment of nontraditional age students in fall 2022 compared to fall 2020, the first full pandemic academic year.
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For weeks, scientists have been watching a slew of Omicron descendants duke it out for dominance of COVID-19 transmission in the United States, with the BQs — BQ.1 and BQ.1.1 — seeming to edge out all the others to claim a slight lead.
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang and Juliana Liu, CNN Production at the world’s biggest iPhone factory, disrupted since October by China’s Covid-19 restrictions and worker protests, is now running at nearly full capacity, according to a Chinese state media report. The sprawling campus in central China, owned by Apple supplier Foxconn, was running at 90% of planned
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Hilary Whiteman and Alex Stambaugh, CNN Australia’s top medical officer advised the government against imposing any restrictions on travelers coming from China, a day before the health minister announced new testing requirements, internal documents show. China’s Covid cases are surging after Beijing abandoned its costly zero-Covid strategy, prompting a number of countries
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Scientists are working on determining the cause behind one of the most distinctive side effects of earlier strains of COVID-19—losing one’s sense of smell.
Continue Reading By Wayne Chang and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen said the self-ruled democratic island is willing to provide assistance to help China deal with its Covid surge after Beijing eased its hardline approach last month. China abandoned its restrictive zero-Covid stance after nearly three years, ending snap lockdowns, contact tracing, mandatory testing and
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN When Linda Stewart felt a tickle in her throat a few weeks ago, she got worried. She’s a 76-year-old woman, and she was well aware of the risks posed to her and her husband’s health by Covid-19, flu and other colds that are sweeping the United States amid a rough respiratory
Continue Reading Life expectancy in the United States dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling to the lowest it has been since 1996, according to final mortality data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,336 new COVID-19 cases and 16 new deaths in the last week.
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Beginning Dec. 29, 2022, the Curative COVID-19 testing site in Teton County, Wyo. will be closed.
Continue Reading By Sandee LaMotte, CNN Brook was 34 years old when her use of alcohol escalated, a way of coping with a breast cancer diagnosis. “I just decided I’m not gonna go through this straight,” she told Lisa Lang in an episode of “This Is Life With Lisa Ling,” airing at 9 p.m. ET Sunday on
Continue Reading By Laura He, CNN Beijing has vowed to go all out next year to save its Covid-hit economy by boosting consumption and loosening control over private industry, including the struggling tech and property sectors. The new pledge marks a big shift from leader Xi Jinping’s years-long effort to rein in private businesses, which were perceived
Continue Reading Although the updated COVID-19 vaccines don’t offer complete protection against a trip to the hospital or urgent care, they do offer important defense against the virus, particularly for seniors, two new studies show.
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN More than a third of US parents say that vaccinating children against measles, mumps and rubella should be an individual choice and not a requirement to attend public school, even if that may create health risks, according to survey data published Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s a notable increase
Continue Reading Just when you thought it was safe for a holiday visit with your Auntie Mary and her fragile health, RSV and the flu reared their heads — and now COVID-19 numbers are creeping up again.
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The Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) will hold a media briefing about the surge in respiratory diseases in Idaho at 2 p.m. (MT) Thursday, Dec. 15.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,329 new COVID-19 cases and 7 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading Drug overdose deaths in the United States have slowed in recent months after reaching record levels earlier this year.
Continue Reading In the United States, approximately 658 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered since they were first distributed exactly two years ago Wednesday.
Continue Reading Last week, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized the bivalent COVID-19 booster for children 6 months to 5 years old.
Continue Reading Long COVID leaves some people with long-term symptoms, but it can be deadly, too. It played a part in at least 3,544 deaths in the United States in the first 30 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report says.
Continue Reading By Laura He and Jennie Chen, CNN An unprecedented wave of Covid cases in China has sparked panic buying of fever medicines, pain killers, and even home remedies such as canned peaches, leading to shortages online and in stores. Authorities said Wednesday they had detected 2,249 symptomatic Covid-19 cases nationally through nucleic acid testing, 20%
Continue Reading By Simone McCarthy, Selina Wang, Cheng Cheng and Wayne Chang, CNN Empty streets, deserted shopping centers, and residents staying away from one another are the new normal in Beijing — but not because the city, like many Chinese ones before it, is under a “zero-Covid” lockdown. This time, it’s because Beijing has been hit with
Continue Reading Across the country, overflow health care workers are struggling to catch their breath as hospitals fill with sick patients battling a trifecta of respiratory illnesses — COVID-19, RSV and the flu.
Continue Reading The COVID-19 vaccines have kept more than 18.5 million people in the US out of the hospital and saved more than 3.2 million lives, a new study says — and that estimate is most likely a conservative one, the researchers say.
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN It’s a sequel 13 years in the making, but James Cameron will have to sit the premiere out. The “Avatar: The Way of Water” director will not be in attendance at Monday’s premiere for the film in Los Angeles after testing positive for Covid-19, according to a statement obtained by The
Continue Reading Months after most mask requirements have come to an end and many people have stopped wearing them, some of the nation’s leading health experts are encouraging people to put their face masks back on — but this time, it’s not just because of COVID-19.
Continue Reading Hospitals are more full than they’ve been throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
Continue Reading Children as young as 6 months are now eligible to receive an updated COVID-19 vaccine.
Continue Reading By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 hospitalizations are on the rise in the United States, with more than 34,000 new admissions last week, but millions of vaccines and doses of antiviral treatments that could help prevent severe outcomes from the virus remain unused. Research has found that many who could benefit most from the Covid-19 medication
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Cheapinsurance.com compiled a list of how the pandemic affected the cost of auto insurance from a collection of expert and government sources.
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EDsmart cited current and projected enrollment figures from the National Center for Education Statistics to contextualize enrollment declines.
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Idaho officials reported 1,638 new COVID-19 cases and 12 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading By Jen Christensen, CNN The brains of US teens have physically changed during the Covid-19 pandemic, aging faster than normal, a new study says. The young study participants also reported more severe symptoms of anxiety, depression and what scientists call internalized problems — meaning feelings of sadness, low self-esteem and fear and trouble regulating their
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, Tara Subramaniam and CNN’s Beijing bureau After unprecedented protests swept China, several cities have taken steps to ease some Covid-19 restrictions and a top official has signaled a softer approach to virus controls — leading to speculation that an end to zero-Covid may be in sight. China’s most senior official in charge
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,462 new COVID-19 cases and 17 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN As the US government distributes some of the most significant investments ever to improve public health, grass-roots organizations that work in underserved communities say they’re being overlooked. These organizations say they’re especially disappointed because the federal government relied on them during the Covid-19 pandemic to encourage vaccination and
Continue Reading By Chris Isidore, CNN Business Sunday marked the busiest day at US airports since the start of the pandemic — and though bad weather caused widespread flight delays, relatively few flights were canceled outright. About 2.6 million people were screened at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints Sunday. That’s the most since December 26, 2019, just a
Continue Reading By Jennifer Deaton, CNN Business Edward Lawrence, a journalist at the BBC, was arrested by police in Shanghai at the scene of protests on Sunday night, according to the BBC and as captured on what appears to be mobile phone footage of the arrest. While he has since been released, a BBC spokesperson has expressed
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing bureau and Nectar Gan Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday faced unprecedented dissent after thousands of demonstrators protested in cities across China over the weekend against his zero-Covid strategy — with some daring to openly call for his removal in the streets. “Step down, Xi Jinping! Step down, Communist Party!” some protesters
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,424 new COVID-19 cases and 5 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading Updated COVID-19 boosters that carry instructions to arm the body against currently circulating Omicron subvariants offer some protection against infections, according to the first study to look at how the boosters are performing in the real world.
Continue Reading By Christina Maxouris, CNN James Slaugh was with his sister and his partner Saturday night at a special place, marking a very important day. It was one year since Slaugh and his sister, Charlene Slaugh, lost their mother to Covid-19. Charlene had also recently gone through a breakup and Slaugh was hoping to cheer her
Continue Reading By Betsy Klein, CNN The Biden administration is launching a critical, six-week push aimed at stepping up Americans’ Covid-19 booster vaccinations heading into the holiday season. “With winter and holiday gatherings right around the corner, more Americans getting their updated vaccine will help avoid thousands of preventable Covid-19 deaths. The six-week campaign will focus on
Continue Reading Cases of COVID-19 rebound following treatment with the antiviral medication Paxlovid — where infections rev back up again after people complete their five-day course of the medication — appear to be at least twice as common as doctors previously knew, a new study suggests.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,241 new COVID-19 cases and 9 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading By Katia Hetter, CNN With this year’s Thanksgiving the third since the onset of the pandemic, there are now many tools to help manage Covid-19 risk, including safe and widely available vaccines. But this coronavirus still presents a danger, especially to older people and those with chronic medical conditions. There are also other viruses circulating
Continue Reading Higher COVID-19 vaccination rates among US children could prevent thousands of pediatric hospitalizations and millions of missed school days, according to an analysis published Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund and the Yale School of Public Health.
Continue Reading By CNN’s Beijing Bureau and Kathleen Magramo China on Thursday reported a record number of daily Covid infections, as a nationwide surge in cases heaps pressure on the country’s increasingly unpopular zero-tolerance approach to the virus. The National Health Commission (NHC) recorded 31,444 locally transmitted cases on Wednesday — surpassing the previous peak of 29,317
Continue Reading Moderna said on Monday its updated COVID-19 booster generated “significantly higher” neutralizing antibodies against the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants than its earlier shot.
Continue Reading Judy Salins considers herself a smart, empowered patient, but until this week, she had no idea that the medicine she takes to defend herself against COVID-19 isn’t protecting her as well as it used to.
Continue Reading By Heather Law, Aliza Kassim Khalidi and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN A cruise ship with hundreds of Covid-positive passengers docked in Sydney, Australia, after being hit by a wave of infections. The Majestic Princess cruise ship was about halfway through a 12-day voyage when an outbreak of cases was noticed, Carnival Australia president Marguerite Fitzgerald told
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN In many countries, cursing online about the government is so commonplace nobody bats an eye. But it’s not such an easy task on China’s heavily censored internet. That doesn’t appear to have stopped residents of Guangzhou from venting their frustration after their city — a global manufacturing powerhouse home to 19
Continue Reading High blood pressure is a known risk factor for a bout of COVID-19 severe enough to raise the specter of hospitalization and death.
Continue Reading Idaho officials reported 1,221 new COVID-19 cases and 12 new deaths in the last week.
Continue Reading Paxlovid, the antiviral pill that reduces the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19, also reduces the risk of long COVID-19, according to a new study by researchers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs.
Continue Reading By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Alongside the many impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on pediatric care, researchers have seen a stark increase in young adults seeking treatment for disordered eating behaviors. Across the United States, inpatient admissions for young adults and adolescents with eating disorders rose by a rate of about 0.7% a month in the
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