Toilet paper has returned to the shelves, and the world is reopened, but that does not mean COVID-19 is gone. In fact, there is reason to believe the next major wave will be “even deadlier” than before. The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm that the next pandemic could …
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WHO Announces That Covid-19 Is No Longer a Public Health Emergency
Early Friday, WHO announced that Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency. During a news conference on Thursday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “For more than a year the pandemic has been on a downward trend.” “This trend has allowed most countries to return to life as we knew …
Read More »New COVID-19 Strain Arcturus Has Experts On Alert With New Symptoms
There is another COVID-19 variant making its way across the globe, and new symptoms have arisen along with it. Known as XBB.1.16 or “Arcturus,” this strain is an omicron subvariant. The advanced virus has been tracked to 29 countries thus far, one of which being the United States. Scientists have …
Read More »Turks & Caicos Will No Longer Require Visitors To Have COVID-19 Vaccine
Starting Saturday, Turks and Caicos will do away with its requirement for travelers to have a COVID-19 vaccination. T&C’s Ministry of Health and Human Services announced that the popular destination would lift the requirement but still strongly recommends visitors receive both the COVID-19 vaccine and flu vaccine, Travel and Leisure …
Read More »President Biden To End COVID-19 Public Health Emergency In Upcoming Months
Despite COVID-19 still being a thorn in the side of Americans, President Joe Biden will end the public health emergency in May. The Biden administration will turn its focus to managing the virus as a seasonal respiratory disease. The public health emergency allowed hospitals and programs such as Medicaid more …
Read More »FDA Proposes Annual Covid-19 Vaccine Shots
Health officials are looking to administer Covid-19 vaccinations annually, like Flu shots. For future vaccination efforts, the FDA proposed Monday that most adults and children will receive a once-a-year shot to protect against mutating viruses. If approved, Americans wouldn’t need to keep track of their vaccination statuses. While more than …
Read More »Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Proposes Policy Banning COVID-19 Mandates Permanently
Florida Governor Ron Desantis is busy making policies that involve mask mandates and the Covid-19 vaccine. The new policy proposals would permanently prohibit Covid-19 vaccine passports in Florida, prohibit Florida schools from instituting Covid-19 vaccine or mask mandates, forbid businesses in the state from requiring masks, and bar ‘”employers from …
Read More »COVID-19 Outbreak Spreads Among Young Thug Co-Defendants
Co-defendants in the Young Thug Rico case have been plagued with a nasty COVID-19 outbreak. In an odd twist of fate, a slew of defendants and even their attorneys have fallen ill with the virus as the highly publicized case pushes forward. This poses a serious challenge for the trial, …
Read More »Six Airlines Ordered to Issue $622 Million in Refunds to Passengers Following the Covid-19 Pandemic
On Monday, the U.S. Transportation Department announced that six airlines were fined $7.25 million in penalties and will be refunding passengers $622 million over flight cancellations and other disruptions, as the agency vows to enforce consumer protection laws. According to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, the actions ensure the carriers paid …
Read More »New Study Shows That Stress During the Covid-19 Pandemic Has Affected Women’s Menstrual Cycles
A new study has shown that the stress of the Covid-19 pandemic has affected woman’s period cycles. Researchers collected data from 354 women between 18 and 45 who were evaluated for a study published in Obstetrics & Gynecology. Between March 2020 and May 2021, participants provided information on their stress …
Read More »Reading And Math Scores Have Dropped Among Students In The U.S. Following The Impacts Of COVID-19
There’s new evidence showing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted fourth, and eighth-graders reading and math skills as testing scores have dropped. According to a national educational assessment that lists the ways in which the pandemic has affected children in America, fourth-grade students and eighth-grade students’ skills in reading and math …
Read More »Study Shows COVID-19 Vaccination Can Temporarily Change Menstrual Cycles
A new study shows COVID-19 vaccines may temporarily change a woman’s menstrual cycle. A new study that’s now been published in the British Medical Journal shows there’s a connection between vaccinated women having longer periods as a result of the COVID-19 vaccination. The study consisted of 20,000 participants who recorded …
Read More »Researchers Say New Bat Virus Is Similar To COVID-19 But Resistant Against Current Vaccines
Researchers say there’s a virus that derives from bats that’s resistant to vaccines and is somewhat like COVID-19. According to researchers at Washington State University, a new virus called Khosta-2 is in the same sub-family of coronavirus, which is called sarbecoviruses, and it’s found in Russian bats. It’s one of …
Read More »There Are Three New COVID-19 Variants: BA.4.6, BF.7 and BA.2.75
The Coronavirus has three new variants: BA.4.6, BF.7, and BA.2.75, and they are spreading fast throughout the country. Meet Rona’s new baby cousins, BA.4.6, BF.7 and BA.2.75. They now make up one in five new infections across the country, CBS News reports, per federal estimates. While the nation isn’t seeing …
Read More »Dr. Fauci Says The COVID-19 Shot Will Likely Become A Yearly Vaccination Just Like The Flu Shot
Dr. Anthony Fauci says the COVID-19 vaccination will be a shot Americans get yearly, just like the influenza shot. As most of us may have expected, the coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. Because it is always changing – like the flu every year – the vaccine will be an annual option …
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