Amazon Web Services outage stalls sites, apps
Amazon’s US-East-1 servers, a major hub for the company’s cloud computing platform, shut down Tuesday morning. The company services governments, universities, and businesses, many of which […]
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Biden announces winter COVID-19 strategy
U.S. President Joe Biden announced a nine-part plan to combat COVID-19 during the winter on Thursday—the same day that health officials announced cases of the new […]
Omicron arrives in the United States
The White House reported on Wednesday that a traveler who arrived in California from South Africa had tested positive for the new omicron variant of the […]
Judge blocks healthcare vaccine mandate for some
U.S. District Judge Matthew Schelp in Missouri ruled in favor of 10 states that filed the first legal challenge to the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate […]
New omicron COVID-19 variant affects air travel
The United States announced Friday it will restrict flights from South Africa and seven other African countries in response to a new coronavirus variant, B.1.1.529, that […]
New Merck data shows COVID drug less effective
The pharmaceutical company Merck on Friday released new numbers on the effectiveness of molnupiravir, a pill that interim results in October indicated might cut coronavirus hospitalizations […]
U.S. to tap into oil reserves
President Joe Biden has ordered 50 million barrels of oil to be released from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, an emergency stockpile stored in Texas and Louisiana. […]
CDC signs off on COVID-19 boosters for all
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) joined the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to approve Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus booster shots for all adults. […]
U.S. overdose deaths top 100,000 in one year
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released an estimate on Wednesday that 100,300 people in the United States died of a drug overdose between May […]
Pfizer to share formula for COVID-19 pill
Pfizer signed a licensing agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool, a UN-backed organization that allows generic drug companies to reproduce treatments for low- and middle-income countries. […]