R obert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was grilled by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30, who confronted him with conspiratorial and conflicting statements he has made about COVID-19.

Ex-CNN editor Chris Cilizza conceded on Monday that he "screwed up" in his assessment of the lab leak theory, suggesting that President Trump was likely right about COVID's origins.

China says it's "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19​ came from a lab, after the CIA said it believed​, though with low confidence, that it did, rather than from natural transmission.

As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Senate confirmation hearing took place on Wednesday, an Akron Press Club panel spoke on Trump's pick, other topical issues.

The problem for the lab-leak position is that the U.S. has never had access to the Wuhan lab and has thus been unable to reach a definitive answer for more than five years. Now that the CIA has at last come to a conclusion, not all scientists are sold on what it has reported, seeing the results as thinly scientifically sourced.

President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. extended his gratitude to outgoing United Nations Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator to the Philippines Gustavo González over his help during the COVID-19 pandemic and engagements related to the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).

A Glendale woman has been sentenced to nine years for a COVID-19 healthcare fraud scheme, involving false respiratory test claims, resulting in $46.7 million in fraud.

Although long-term nursing home stay or death decreased before the COVID-19 pandemic, the trend slowed during the pandemic across all racial and ethnic groups.

TOLEDO, Ohio — It has been five years since Covid-19 was officially declared a Global Emergency by the World Health Organization. As of Jan. 2025, more than 7 million people have died from the virus. Dr. Brian Kaminski, VP of medical affairs for ProMedica, said one of the biggest changes is how health care providers communicate with patients.

Trump returns to the White House as the tenth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic once again inundates hospitals, while the last vestiges of public health are set for destruction.

An analysis of changes in labor and sales for restaurants from 2019-2023 shows how the longer term effects of COVID led to higher sales for the industry.

AISD said the latest testing cycle of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, showed that AISD student scores were higher than state, peer-districts, national charter students,