Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has tested positive for coronavirus, which will stall the Senate Democrats’ legislative agenda this week as his razor-thin majority returns from a two-week recess.
First Lady Jill Biden sang to a masked three-year-old during a visit she made earlier this month to a vaccine clinic.
As most schools across the country are back to in-person learning, the detrimental effects of school lockdowns during coronavirus are showing themselves in real time: high levels of student depression, and developmental and academic stunting.
Outspoken tennis great John McEnroe is blasting autocratic politicians for denying unvaxed tennis star Novak Djokovic’s entry into the USA.
A German court has rejected attempts by members of the country’s armed forces to challenge the government’s mandatory Wuhan virus vaccination policy for all troops.
Denali National Park in Alaska announced on Friday that they will be reinstating a mask mandate in all federal buildings located on park grounds as well as on park buses.
For the first time since the pandemic began, NFL teams will start training camp without any Covid protocols or restrictions, according to a report in the Washington Post.
Los Angeles County may reimpose an indoor mask mandate due to rising coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, according to county officials.
New York Mets pitch Chris Bassitt has said “it’s ridiculous” that professional athletes like himself are still testing for the coronavirus.
Far-left social networking platform Twitter has restored the account of science journalist Alex Berenson as it moves to settle a lawsuit brought by the prominent skeptic of coronavirus policies.
UCLA claims that the coronavirus pandemic crippled its athletics program to such a degree that it joined the Big Ten Conference.
The huge city of Xi’an in northwestern China on Tuesday became the latest to impose lockdowns in China’s growing coronavirus outbreak.
The government of Macau, which is the globe’s top gambling hub, locked down one of the city’s best-known hotels, the Grand Lisboa, on Tuesday after health officials detected over a dozen new Chinese coronavirus cases there, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated that while the Biden administration is using every tool it can to fight inflation, “if you just consider the magnitude of the shock that the pandemic created, we’re going to continue seeing those shock waves reverberate through our economy, I think, for quite some time.”
Shanghai’s government announced a snap lockdown Tuesday across 9 of its 16 residential districts to allow officials to conduct mass testing for the Chinese coronavirus, Xinhua News Agency reported, adding that the movement restrictions will last through Thursday.
According to Shanghai-based financial services company Wind Information, the Chinese economy is about to post its lowest quarterly growth rate in over two years, featuring an anemic growth rate of about 1.4 percent due largely to coronavirus lockdowns.
If you’re stuck in a line somewhere waiting to board a regular commercial flight or queueing on arrival in the vain hope you’ll soon be reunited with your baggage, one thing is certain.
The “worldwide obsession” with coronavirus vaccine delivery for children led to the unintended consequence of other routine inoculations being de-prioritised, a UK member of Parliament warned Sunday.
The L.A. film industry has returned to forced mask wearing indoors after county officials reported a higher number of COVID hospitalizations.
NICE, France (AP) – Tourism is booming again in France – and so is COVID-19. French officials have “invited” or “recommended” people to go back to using face masks but stopped short of renewing restrictions that would scare visitors away or revive anti-government protests.
The Rodong Sinmun state newspaper of North Korea published the results of an alleged “investigation” into the origins of the ongoing Chinese coronavirus epidemic in the country on Friday blaming the entry of the disease into the country on “alien things” from South Korea.
Science writer and prominent skeptic of official coronavirus policies Alex Berenson has settled his lawsuit with Twitter, which he brought against the tech company after it blacklisted him in 2021.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, has tested positive for coronavirus two weeks after initially testing positive and getting treatment with Pfizer’s antiviral drug Paxlovid.
The famed Sesame Street character Elmo on Tuesday announced on social media that he, too, got vaccinated for the Chinese coronavirus, telling children “Elmo’s doctor said the vaccine would help keep Elmo healthy.”
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reported an unseasonable spike in influenza cases across southern China blamed by government doctors on “weak immunity” due to “low exposure to respiratory pathogens affected by prevention and control measures against COVID-19 [Chinese coronavirus].”
China’s state-run Global Times on Monday reversed a good deal of spin from Beijing by admitting that U.S. demand for Chinese goods is falling sharply enough to damage the Chinese economy.
“…acts of gross misconduct akin to a workplace assault… because in a way that is exactly what it was,” the ruling said.
Cai Qi, the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Beijing, told state media Monday that the city would adhere to its “zero-Covid” policy of lockdowns and quarantines for the next five years.
Police officers in northeastern China’s Dandong city arrested a 41-year-old woman surnamed Hao last week after she attempted to drive her elderly father to a hospital to retrieve medicine during a local Chinese coronavirus lockdown, the Global Times reported over the weekend, noting that the woman’s father attempted to slap one of the police officers after the officer shoved Hao to the ground.
U.S. shale oil producers’ latest strategy to increase domestic production involves ‘re-fracing’ already established wells.
Most Americans either never wear a mask or only do so sometimes, a recent poll from The Economist/YouGov found.
A recent study on children’s screen time has revealed that during the coronavirus pandemic, screen time among children increased by 83 minutes per day on average.
The Austrian government has scrapped a law that would force residents of the country to be fully vaccinated against the Wuhan coronavirus.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended his use of the Emergencies Act, saying unvaccinated Canadians had accepted the consequences.
The number of South Korean families that moved from “urban areas to farming villages” reached an “all-time high” last year, Yonhap News Agency reported Thursday, noting that the phenomenon came in response to prolonged pandemic restrictions and surging home prices nationwide.
Publix pharmacies will not offer coronavirus vaccine shots to children younger than five even though U.S. health authorities now approve the procedure, various news outlets reported Thursday.
Multiple MEPs have told Breitbart Europe that they will continue to challenge the EU’s COVID pass regime as it comes up for renewal on Thursday
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senior Adviser to President Joe Biden Gene Sperling agreed with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s statement that there was high inflation before Russia invaded Ukraine and argued that the inflation that existed prior to the
The heatwave in northern and central China grew even worse on Wednesday, with temperatures of 105 degrees and higher reported. Shandong, one of the most populous provinces in China, bumped several of its cities to the highest level of heat alert.
President Joe Biden on Tuesday made waves by telling reporters that “there will be a second pandemic” coming.
