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Demonstrators rally against provincial and federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates and in support of Ottawa protestors on Friday outside the Manitoba Legislature in Winnipeg.

Ontario premier calls on COVID restriction protesters to end their 'occupation'

Feb 04, 2022
Crowdfunding site GoFundMe said it would refund or redirect to charities the vast majority of millions raised by demonstrators protesting COVID-19 measures in the Canadian capital.
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Coronavirus Updates
Pennsylvania's acting Secretary of Health Keara Klinepeter walks from a news conference at Grandview Health in Sellersville, Pa., on Jan. 24.

900,000 Americans have died of COVID in 2 years of the global pandemic

Feb 04, 2022
The U.S. death rate from COVID-19 continues to increase daily, as the rolling seven-day average for daily COVID-19 deaths has been above 2,000 since Jan. 23.
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Goats and Soda
Antibody tests are becoming more available at drugstores, but what do the results <em>really</em> tell you? Above: A Paris pharmacist deposits a blood sample for a COVID-19 antibody test.

Coronavirus FAQ: My drugstore now offers antibody tests. Is it worth getting one?

Feb 04, 2022
Antibody tests may be coming soon to a pharmacy near you. Here's what the tests reveal — and don't reveal — about you and COVID-19.
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World
This photo shows the Australian Navy's HMAS Adelaide docked at Vuna Wharf in Tonga's capital Nukualofa on Jan. 26 to deliver aid following the Jan. 15 eruption of the nearby Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai underwater volcano. Tonga's deputy chief of mission in

Tonga enters lockdown after first community transmitted COVID-19 cases detected

Feb 02, 2022
Two wharf workers tested positive Tuesday. The Ministry of Health has been testing workers there amid international aid shipments after last month's volcanic eruption.
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Simon Says
A hamster sits in a cage after being adopted by volunteers who stopped an owner from surrendering it to the government outside the New Territories South Animal Management Centre on January 20, 2022 in Hong Kong, China.

Opinion: A case for Hong Kong's hamsters

Jan 29, 2022
Hong Kong's government is directing anyone who bought a hamster in the past five weeks to surrender their pets for euthanasia after 11 of the animals tested positive for the coronavirus.
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Coronavirus Updates
Shown above are rapid at-home COVID-19 test kits ready to be distributed by the GreenRoots environmental protection organization and Chelsea Community Connections in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

A shot and a swab: New Hampshire to sell at-home COVID tests in liquor outlets

Jan 28, 2022
New Hampshire Gov. Christopher Sununu says he expects the at-home tests to be available at statewide liquor stores within the next two weeks.
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Goats and Soda
A student washes her hands before entering a classroom at a school in Blantyre, Malawi, in March 2021. Top scientists say that many African countries, including Malawi, appear to have already arrived at a substantially less threatening stage of the coron

Africa may have reached the pandemic's holy grail

Jan 28, 2022
New findings from Malawi suggest the country has entered something akin to the endemic stage of the pandemic — along with many other African nations.
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Coronavirus Updates
A worker hands a nasal swab to a motorist at a drive-up COVID-19 testing site in Denver on Jan. 13.

Denver children's museum closes temporarily after anger at its mask policy

Jan 27, 2022
The Children's Museum of Denver said that "regrettably, some guests who object to the Museum's mask policy have been inappropriately directing their anger toward our staff."
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Middle East
A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.

Iran is undergoing a mass vaccination campaign as omicron looms

Jan 26, 2022
Iran has found a rare, if fleeting, respite from the anxiety and trauma of the pandemic.
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Health
This family photo shows D.J. Ferguson initially being treated at Milford, Mass., Regional Medical Center. Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston is defending itself after Ferguson's family claimed he was denied a new heart for refusing to be vaccinated a

Patient who refused COVID vaccine was denied a heart transplant

Jan 26, 2022
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston said the COVID-19 vaccine is one of several immunizations required by most U.S. transplant programs.
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Coronavirus Updates
Elton John performs during his "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour on Jan. 19 in New Orleans. Despite being vaccinated and boosted, John has contracted COVID-19 and postponed two farewell concert dates in Dallas. John "is experiencing only mild symptoms,"

Elton John postpones Texas concerts after testing positive for COVID-19

Jan 25, 2022
John said that he's fully vaccinated and boosted, experiencing only mild symptoms, and expects to be able to perform at his scheduled show this weekend in Arkansas.
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National

New York's mask mandate temporarily restored by appeals judge

Jan 25, 2022
Monday's ruling that overturned the mandate caused confusion, with some school administrators quickly announcing masks would be optional and others continuing to enforce wearing them.
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Goats and Soda
07 January 2021, Bavaria, Munich: The snowman "Claude", who was built on a hill in the Olympic complex, wears a mouth-nose protection over his nose, which is made of a banana.

Coronavirus FAQ: What's the risk of catching omicron outdoors?

Jan 21, 2022
Previous versions of the coronavirus didn't transmit as easily outdoors thanks to airflow that dispersed viral particles. But what about the highly transmissible omicron variant?
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Asia

Japan is ramping up COVID-19 restrictions as omicron cases surge

Jan 20, 2022
While many Japanese adults are fully vaccinated, few have gotten a booster shot, which has been a vital protection from the highly contagious omicron variant.
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Music
Adele posted a video on her Twitter on Thursday, apologizing for needing to postpone her Las Vegas show.

Adele postpones Vegas show in tearful post, saying half of her team is out with COVID

Jan 20, 2022
Weekends with Adele was originally set to run from Jan. 21 to April 16. The singer announced that the Las Vegas residency was postponed due to COVID issues.
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A UNLV researcher models the pandemic's future by studying sewage

Jan 20, 2022

When UNLV researchers want to predict the path of the pandemic they pop open a manhole.

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Coronavirus Updates
Staff members rehearse a victory ceremony at the Beijing Medals Plaza last week. The venue will host some medal ceremonies at the upcoming winter Olympics.

COVID concerns will keep NBC announcers home from the Beijing Olympics

Jan 19, 2022
NBC Sports officials say their plan of covering the Olympics from its Stamford, Conn., facility is a similar strategy used to cover the delayed 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics last year.
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Goats and Soda
A resident receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a health center in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 13. This week, Indonesia started a program to give booster shots to the elderly and people at risk of severe disease.

Booster longevity: Data reveals how long a third shot protects

Jan 19, 2022
Now researchers in the U.K. have the first estimates for how long a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine will last. The findings are mixed.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing St. in London on Wednesday. Speculation over a vote of no confidence in his leadership mounts.

Britain's Johnson faces growing calls to quit after throwing parties during lockdown

Jan 19, 2022
The prime minister has admitted to throwing "bring your own booze" parties at his official residence in London while ordinary Britons were told to stay away from unnecessary gatherings.
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Politics
The U.S. Postal Service is now taking orders for the government's free at-home coronavirus test kits.

The Postal Service is now taking orders for COVID-19 test kits

Jan 18, 2022
The free at-home COVID-19 tests are expected to be delivered by USPS later this month. The White House said the site is in "beta testing" and will be launched formally Wednesday.
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Coronavirus Updates
Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical adviser and director of the NIAID, testifies at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill last week.

Fauci says COVID-19 won't go away like smallpox, but will more likely become endemic

Jan 18, 2022
The White House's top medical adviser says the virus won't go away entirely. Instead, it should eventually hit a level where it "doesn't disrupt our normal social, economic and other interactions."
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The Picture Show
A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During th

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

Jan 17, 2022
Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
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Sports
Defending men's champion Novak Djokovic practices on Margaret Court Arena on Thursday ahead of the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne on Thursday.

Djokovic's appeal of his canceled visa moves to a higher court

Jan 14, 2022
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said he canceled Djokovic's visa on "health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so."
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Goats and Soda
This colorized transmission electron micrograph image shows SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes the disease COVID-19. This specimen was isolated from a patient in the United States. Particles of the virus (yellow) are emerging from the surface of cel

Fact check: The theory that SARS-CoV-2 is becoming milder

Jan 14, 2022
A look at the data that omicron is less severe. What does that mean for the future of SARS-CoV-2 — and the pandemic?
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Coronavirus Updates

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice 'extremely unwell' after testing positive for COVID-19

Jan 12, 2022
Results from the governor's rapid test Tuesday morning came back negative. However, results from his PCR test came back positive, according to a statement.

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