US/World Stories
- Trials for 1 of the 9 contenders for a COVID-19 vaccine have been halted after a participant in AstraZeneca's vaccine trial fell ill.
- In-person classes, online classes, hybrids - as of a few days ago, one-quarter of the country's 3,000 institutions still didn't know how to hold classes.
- According to the WHO, 10 million people were diagnosed with tuberculosis worldwide in 2018.
- Flying during the pandemic is risky, but the risk drops when planes aren't at full capacity.
- News from August 17: Doubts about temperature as an early COVID-19 symptom, new spit test could replace swab testing for the virus, and NZ postpones election due to spike in cases.
- News from Aug. 14: Flu vaccines, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, and new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand.
- The coronavirus hygiene rules are simple, says the CDC's director, pleading with people to follow them; three high schools in Georgia show they weren't following these rules; the Russians claim...
- Don't discourage moms from breastfeeding, even if they have COVID-19.
- The U.S. prison population has significantly higher COVID-19 infection rates compared to the general population.
- In response to a recent magazine cover depicting mental health treatment that drew criticism, Vogue Portugal said that the publication’s aim was to "shine a light" on the issue.
- Walt Disney World under the radar as it reopens amid rising COVID-19 cases.
- Per a new update from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, an additional 1,190 people living in the state managed to recover from the coronavirus, bringing the state’s total number of...