The Latest Breaking News from Pandemic

The medals are Biden’s first batch of awards for the arts and humanities, which were delayed by the pandemic. Mindy Kaling, Gladys Knight, Amy Tan and Julia Louis-Dreyfus are also among the medal recipients.

US President Joe Biden has signed a bill to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic

A new paper cites the case of an artist known as Annie who caught Covid in the early days of the pandemic, and later struggled to tell her father apart from her uncle

Today’s update is about an eight-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Current risk of transmission from birds to humans remains low, but vaccine producers are ready to prepare a new shot “within months”

“‌We need to prepare to fight disease outbreaks just as we prepare to fight fires,” Bill Gates writes in a NYT op-ed.

The early part of the COVID pandemic led to a significant reduction in air pollution in many parts of the world. With lockdowns, travel restrictions and decreased economic activity, there was a noticeable drop in the emission of air pollutants, such as nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and particulate matter (PM) that…

As passengers came out of pandemic restrictions and pent-up demand to travel in 2022, airline on-time arrival rates still lagged 2019 levels at most of the country’s major carriers including Fort Worth-based American Airlines and Dallas-based Southwest Airlines.

H5N1 only sporadically infects humans - but it kills half of those who catch it. As the largest ever outbreak of the virus continues to rage, is New Zealand prepared?

Scientist warns diagnostic testing capacity is not advanced enough to cope with virus if it jumps to humans