With Christmas just a few days away, Ohio set its all-time record for most COVID-19 cases reported in day with 12,502 on Tuesday. The number is particularly unnerving with people planning to get together for the holidays. The state and the country are continuing to see the impact from the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators today authorized the first pill against COVID-19, a Pfizer drug that Americans will be able to take at home to head off the worst effects of the virus. The long-awaited milestone comes as U.S. cases, hospitalizations and deaths are all rising and ...
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials say 2021 is shaping up to be even deadlier than last year. It's too early to say for sure, since all the death reports for November and December won't be in for many weeks. But based on available information, it seems likely 2021 will surpass last ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy grew at a 2.3 percent rate in the third quarter, slightly better than previously thought, the Commerce Department said this morning. But prospects for a solid rebound going forward are being clouded by the rapid spread of the latest variant of the ...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic omicron-driven surge has passed its peak, medical experts say. Daily virus case counts are notoriously unreliable, as they can be affected by uneven testing, ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. officials announced approval today of two solar projects in California and moved to open up public lands in three other Western states to potential solar development, as part of the Biden administration's effort to counter climate change by shifting from fossil ...
