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U.S. faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models say

January 18, 2022 at 10:51 a.m.

The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 50,000 to 300,000 more Americans could die by...

FILE – Maya Goode, a COVID-19 technician, performs a test on Jessica Sanchez outside Asthenis Pharmacy in Providence, R.I., Dec. 7, 2021. Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in Britain, U.S.

January 12, 2022 at 7:39 a.m.

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19′s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start...

In a medical first, U.S. surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient

January 10, 2022 at 9:30 p.m.

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he's doing well...

How will pandemic end? Omicron clouds forecasts for endgame.

January 3, 2022 at 7:21 a.m.

Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won't be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to...

EXPLAINER: COVID-19 boosters key to fight omicron, lot still to learn

December 20, 2021 at 3:41 p.m.

The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is but scientists don’t yet know if it causes more...

U.S. faces a double coronavirus surge as omicron advances

December 15, 2021 at 6:38 p.m.

The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already struggling with a surge of delta cases and...

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COVID-19’s global death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years

November 1, 2021 at 7:19 a.m.

The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 5 million on Monday, less than two years into a crisis that has not only devastated poor countries but also humbled wealthy ones...

Nursing coordinator Beth Springer looks ...

COVID cases are falling, but U.S. on the brink of 700,000 dead

October 1, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

A decline in COVID-19 cases across the United States over the past several weeks has given overwhelmed hospitals some relief, but administrators are bracing for yet another possible surge as...

FILE – In this Sept. 21, 2021, file photo, Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse Maggie Bass, right, injects a COVID-19 vaccine into an arm in Jackson, Miss. A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden’s plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are overwhelmingly for it, while most Republicans are against it according to a poll released Thursday, Sept. 30, by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

AP-NORC poll finds deep divide over Biden vaccine mandate

September 30, 2021 at 7:17 a.m.

A survey of Americans on President Joe Biden’s plan to require most workers to get either vaccinated or regularly tested for COVID-19 finds a deep and familiar divide: Democrats are...

FILE – This photo made available by the Library of Congress shows a demonstration at the Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station in Washington during the influenza pandemic of 1918. Historians think the pandemic started in Kansas in early 1918, and by winter 1919 the virus had infected a third of the global population and killed at least 50 million people, including 675,000 Americans. Some estimates put the toll as high as 100 million. (Library of Congress via AP, File)

COVID has killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 flu

September 20, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

COVID-19 has now killed about as many Americans as the 1918-19 Spanish flu pandemic did -- approximately 675,000.

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