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COVID is still killing about 500 Americans every day — picking off the oldest, frailest members of our society. About 9 in 10 COVID deaths are now among people over 65.

The main reason the surge is ebbing now, pandemic experts suspect, is the significant immunity many people in the U.S. have acquired from prior infections and COVID vaccinations many received.

It would make more sense to screen a plane's wastewater to look for new variants than to screen individual passenger volunteers, some researchers say. Others say any information is helpful.

As COVID-19 infections surge in China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering sampling wastewater taken from international aircraft to track any emerging new variants, the agency told Reuters.

Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic only to blast through human populations this year. Some public health experts have called it a “tripledemic,” but it might even be described as a…

All three people who died had other health conditions.

There have so far been 10 cases of a mysterious strain of pneumonia in Argentina, with three people dying, and the UK's top scientists are monitoring the situation

This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here.

A North Dakota native has been named to a new and vital health care post. The nation ought to wish her well because the task before her is daunting: overseeing the overhaul of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after its frustrating response to the COVID-19 pandemic.