Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for musician’s COVID-19 death

The complaint states that NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and former NIH Director Francis Collins knew or should have known that China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology was, with U.S. help, “conducting research into coronaviruses including gain of function research” when the pandemic began in late 2019.

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US Court of Appeals upholds Air Force COVID-19 vaccine injunction

The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a class wide injunction that protects Air Force personnel who have declined an Air Force order to get the COVID-19 vaccine for religious reasons from discipline or removal from the Air Force.

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China eases virus controls amid effort to head off protests

More Chinese cities are easing anti-virus restrictions and police are patrolling their streets as the government tries to defuse public anger over some of the world's most stringent COVID measures.

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Twitter ends enforcement of COVID misinformation policy

Twitter is no longer enforcing its policy against misinformation about COVID-19. The change was announced in an online update to Twitter's rules and comes after the platform was purchased by Elon Musk.

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COVID deaths skew older, reviving questions about 'acceptable loss'

More than 300 people are still dying each day on average from COVID-19, most of them 65 or older, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Next COVID-19 strain may be more dangerous, lab study shows

A South African laboratory study using COVID-19 samples from an immunosuppressed individual over six months showed that the virus evolved to become more pathogenic.

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Young women at front line of China's sweeping COVID protests

Young women have emerged as a prominent voice of protests over the weekend in China against COVID Zero.

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China needs vaccinations more than lockdowns, US officials say

Two top U.S. health officials questioned China's "zero covid" policy, saying it's unlikely to rein in the virus on its own and makes little sense without an improved vaccination campaign to broaden immunity.

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Just 1 in 20 people in the US have dodged COVID infection so far, study says

An estimated 94% of people in the U.S. have been infected with the COVID-19 virus at least once, according to according to a new paper from researchers at Harvard's School of Public Health.

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