Covid Cases

World Health Organization reports "0" confirmed COVID cases, "0" deaths in North Korea.

Mutations are not known at this time to be more dangerous or infectious.

The Ocean State is 95% vaccinated but holds a 34% infection rate.

Airlines have urged the Biden administration to drop the mandate and international travel rules.

Authorities have at times failed to distinguish between hospitalizations “with” the virus and due to it.

Moderna plans to seek authorization for its pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for kids 6 and under, but experts say the vaccine maker’s trials for the young age group raise too many questions.

Chinese emergency workers found on Wednesday one of two black boxes from a China Eastern Airlines (600115.SS) plane that crashed with 132 people onboard, but U.S. efforts to join the investigation are on hold because of COVID-19 quarantine rules.

Information on hospitalizations and death by age and vaccination status would have helped inform whether healthy adults needed booster shots.

Health Feedback, a “fact-checking” organization, is part of a World Health Organization project called Vaccine Safety Net. It operates under the umbrella of Science Feedback, whose partners and funders include Facebook and the Google News initiative.

New York City plans to indefinitely continue the city’s vaccine mandate for private-sector employees who work on-site and will continue to enforce an in-school mask mandate for children aged 5 and under.