The U.S. faces a steep uphill struggle in gearing up to monitor Covid-19 variants, a key part of watching for the emergence of dangerous mutations that might spread quickly, evade vaccines or kill more infected people. Other countries, such as the U.K., have established robust, nationwide DNA surveillance programs to […]

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. But the deal does not include the remaining 116 Debenhams department stores, which will close. It comes after nearly 180,000 jobs were lost and around 20,000 stores […]

California and other large states are loosening Covid restrictions just as scientists warn that more-contagious variants of the virus are beginning to take hold in the U.S. and the vaccine rollout struggles. With a two-month spike in cases beginning to subside, California Governor Gavin Newsom is lifting the state’s stay-at-home […]

U.S. Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are receding from recent highs, but discrete outbreaks are still raging in places such as the Texas-Mexico border and parts of Alabama. The pattern provides a preview of how the pandemic may look during the months to come. The seven-day average of Covid-19 cases fell […]

(CNN)Money for vaccine distribution was viewed as the top priority on a Sunday call that President Joe Biden’s top economic official held with a group of senators to discuss the administration’s proposed Covid-19 relief package, according to one person on the call. Sunday’s meeting, which came as the White House […]

LISTEN TO ARTICLE SHARE THIS ARTICLE That money can’t buy happiness is an age-old trope. Since the advent of modern public-opinion research, scholars have been trying to test it—with varying results. One issue is that happiness may have different aspects. In a much-cited 2010 paper, psychologist Daniel Kahneman and economist […]

(CNN)The National Football League is inviting 7,500 vaccinated health care workers to be among the 22,000 fans in attendance at Super Bowl LV next month, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday. “I am the son of a nurse and all of you have a very special place in my heart,” […]

The 1,000 richest people on Earth have already recovered from coronavirus-related wealth losses, an Oxfam study revealed. Meanwhile, it could take more than a decade for those in poverty to recover, the charity said. The top 10 billionaires, including Jeff Bezos, have enough money combined to pay for a COVID-19 […]