COVID-19

How many lives were lost to COVID-19? A look back nearly 5 years later
What's NewDeaths from COVID-19 have slowed significantly but continue adding to a tally of more than 7 million deaths from the virus in the nearly five years since the...
A Photographer’s Intimate Chronicle of Home Birth
A paradox of giving birth is that you are irrefutably there—no one has ever been more there!—and yet not there at all. In all but one of Shannon’s images...
COVID map update reveals new states with “very high” wastewater activity
There are an increasing number of states across the U.S. where "very high" levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 are present in wastewater.According to the U.S. Centers for...
Covid treatment recall issued after glass found in drug
Amidst a resurgence of COVID-19 cases across the United States, pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, Inc. has announced a voluntary recall of its antiviral drug Veklury, commonly known as remdesivir,...
Harvey Weinstein is in recovery following emergency heart surgery
Harvey Weinstein was “rushed” on Sunday night to Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he underwent a procedure as well as heart surgery on Monday, his representatives said. The...
Embattled Biden sidelined with COVID as Trump returns to center stage after shooting
An embattled President Biden was resting at his Delaware beach home Thursday, fighting COVID-19 and a rising tide of dissent from within his own party over his ability to...
Nevada Republicans lose legal fight over mail ballots
On Wednesday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by national and Nevada state Republicans that aimed to bar the state from counting mail ballots received up to four...
Malika Andrews Plays Through the Pressure
On March 11, 2020, Adam Silver, the N.B.A. commissioner, received word that the Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, who at that moment was in an arena filled with nineteen...
Anthony Fauci gets death threats after Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks
Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Capitol building in Washington D.C. in April. Dr Anthony Fauci speaking before a House subcommittee on Monday. Fauci said that Greene's vocal criticisms of...