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…
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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…
Paris Olympics draw huge crowds in first post-COVID Games
PARIS — In what has become a daily ritual, crowds jostle along the Champs-Élysées, avoiding expensive cafes and shops, and…
Harvey Weinstein hospitalized for COVID and double pneumonia
Former Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who is awaiting a retrial on rape charges in New York, has been hospitalized…
FLiRT Wave: California COVID sewage levels are worse than last summer
Coronavirus levels in California wastewater now exceed last summer's peak, an indication of the rapid spread of FLiRT's new super-contagious…
COVID-19 sidelines Biden as Trump returns to center stage after shooting
Embattled President Biden was relaxing at his Delaware beach house Thursday, battling COVID-19 and a rising tide of dissent within…