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Coronavirus
Coronavirus live news: AstraZeneca publishes full vaccine trial results; US cases pass 30m
New Covid variant detected in India; Dr Fauci concerned about miscommunication around AstraZeneca vaccine efficacy; weekly cases rising in US as total passes 30m
What you need to know about the coronavirus right now
Here's what you need to know about the coronavirus right now:
Covid-19: Mexico revises coronavirus death toll up by 60%
The revised figures indicate Mexico has the second highest number of Covid-related deaths in the world.
A first: US Senate confirms transgender doctor for key post
Voting mostly along party lines, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed former Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine to be the nation’s assistant secretary of health. She is the first ...
US lawmakers decry violence against Asians in Georgia visit
ATLANTA (AP) — Members of Congress laid flowers Sunday at the three massage businesses in Georgia where a gunman killed eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, and demanded ...
US Cancels Student Debt For More Than 40,000 Disabled Americans
The action targets a loan forgiveness program that aims to help people with disabilities but that critics say carries overly burdensome rules.
Senate confirms Dr. Vivek Murthy as US surgeon general
The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Dr. Vivek Murthy as US surgeon general, a role he had held under the Obama administration and reprises during a key chapter in the Biden administration's ...
Fauci explains what he sees as driving the new US COVID-19 cases
Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious diseases expert, appeared on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday to explain what he thinks is driving the new COVID-19 cases in the United ...