How Skipping Your COVID Booster Could Lower Your IQ
The national COVID-19 vaccination effort is failing. Last year only 22% of adults received the latest COVID booster, which is…
COVID-19
COVID-19 subvariant XEC is a potential winter threat; vaccinations urged
A new subvariant of the coronavirus is gaining traction and drawing more attention as a potential threat heading into late…
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized for emergency heart surgery
Harvey Weinstein was “rushed” Sunday night to Bellevue Hospital in New York, where he underwent a procedure and heart surgery…
Amid California's scorching COVID summer, focus turns to vaccines
Unlike recent temperatures, California's COVID summer may no longer be heating up, though officials warn that the virus continues to…
Post-Labor Day period poses new COVID risk in California. Will the wave get worse?
As COVID levels remain stubbornly high in California, some doctors are warning that transmission could accelerate again after the busy…
More contagious COVID-19 strain 'just getting started' amid California surge
The summer surge in coronavirus subvariants dubbed FLiRT has given way to increasingly contagious strains, a key reason behind the…
Summer travel fuels California COVID case surge. Labor Day will be a test
CHICAGO — Summer travel is helping to drive a surge in COVID cases in California and other parts of the…
We still need free COVID-19 testing. Why is it harder to get it?
August 14, 2024 3 am Pacific Time To the editor: The excellent advice that people with symptoms get tested for…
NFL sprinter Tyreek Hill wants to compete with Olympic sprinter Noah Lyles
Some of the fastest guys on the planet sure love to talk non-stop. Miami Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill responded…
This is the strongest COVID-19 wave in years in California. Why did it become so serious?
California's strongest COVID-19 wave in years is still on the rise, and an unusual mid-summer mutation may be partly to…