Tens of millions of people are expected to travel to family gatherings or winter vacations over Christmas, despite pleas by public health experts who fear the result could be another surge in COVID-19 cases. AAA predicts that about 85 million people will travel between Wednesday and Jan. 3, most of them by car. If true, [...]
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The first doses of the coronavirus vaccine are being administered in Native American communities from the desert highlands of New Mexico to a coastal fishing tribe outside Seattle as the federal government and states rush to protect one of the country’s most vulnerable populations. The two-pronged effort includes a massive [...]
DENVER (AP) — Amber Johnson is terrified her 63-year-old father will get the coronavirus. He has high blood pressure, asthma and is pre-diabetic, and she worries he's especially vulnerable as an inmate in Colorado, where outbreaks in prisons are raging. Prisons across the country have been hit hard by COVID-19. Social distancing is virtually impossible [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to get the green light for human consumption. But the company behind it says there are no imminent plans to sell it for meat. The pig is genetically engineered to eliminate the [...]
Tisha Coleman has lived in close-knit Linn County, Kansas, for 42 years and never felt so alone. As the public health administrator, she's struggled every day of the coronavirus pandemic to keep her rural county along the Missouri border safe. In return, she's been harassed, sued, vilified — and called a "sheep." The months of [...]
After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation's nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots. Being first has come with persistent fears that the places hit hardest in the pandemic — accounting for nearly 40 percent of [...]
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Deaths from the coronavirus pandemic are spiking across the country, yet a new poll finds little increase in alarm among Americans about COVID-19 infections and no significant change in opinion about how the government should act to slow the spread. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs [...]
Nine months into a pandemic and its accompanying restrictions, millions of Ohioans are probably stricken with severe cases of cabin fever. Many people in Ohio and elsewhere in the country have put travel plans on hold for most of the year over fears of catching or passing along COVID-19. Nationally, hotel occupancy and road travel [...]
How could scientists race out COVID-19 vaccines so fast without cutting corners? A head start helped — over a decade of behind-the-scenes research that had new vaccine technology poised for a challenge just as the coronavirus erupted. "The speed is a reflection of years of work that went before," Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top [...]
Social Security's life expectancy calculator predicts I'll live to about 86. An insurance company's version says I should expect to die at 98. A longevity calculator created by actuaries demurs, putting the odds at only 32 percent that I'll make it to 95. Eventually, I'll find out which life expectancy calculator was most accurate. In [...]