Tag: COVID-19

Partisan House efforts on COVID origins and Jan. 6 could preview 2022 themes

Emily Brooks · June 29, 2021 8:49 pm

Trump COVID testing czar testifies coronavirus most likely originated in Wuhan lab

Jerry Dunleavy · June 29, 2021 6:37 pm

Gasoline prices are expected to hit their lowest summer average since 2009, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Gas prices soar to seven-year high and are likely to continue rising

Michael Lee · June 29, 2021 5:36 pm

People queue up to buy face masks at a cosmetics shop in Hong Kong, Friday, Jan. 31, 2020.

Los Angeles County ‘strongly recommends’ masking indoors over variant

Mike Brest · June 29, 2021 5:35 pm

Beltway Confidential

Airlines blame booze, not abominable conditions, for soaring in-flight fights

Tiana Lowe Doescher · June 29, 2021 4:22 pm

A decade-old overview of past research on homework found a correlation between homework and high-performing students. But the study didn't find causal effects, so it's possible that kids who do more homework have high test scores for other reasons.

Disparities in in-person learning worsened for minority students over the course of the pandemic: CDC study

David Hogberg · June 29, 2021 4:16 pm

Pritzker urges vaccinations, warns about Delta variant

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2021 3:00 pm

Fauci must come clean on Wuhan lab

Washington Examiner · June 29, 2021 2:36 pm

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee member Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio holds up a security form as he asks questions during the committee's hearing on recent cyber attacks at OPM, Wednesday, June 24, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The OPM is under fire for allowing its databases to be plundered by suspected Chinese cyberspies in what is being called one of the worst breaches in U.S. history.

House Republican’s bill would increase oversight on NIH grant recipients after pandemic

Mica Soellner · June 28, 2021 8:50 pm

Third shot of AstraZeneca vaccine shows promise as booster

David Hogberg · June 28, 2021 7:12 pm

A nurse administers a flu shot, manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur, at Perry Memorial Hospital in Princeton, Illinois, U.S., on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017. Senate in both political parties say they've reached agreement on fixes to stabilize Obamacare just two weeks before Americans start signing up for 2018 coverage.

Pfizer and Moderna vaccines may provide coronavirus protection for years: Study

Carly Roman · June 28, 2021 5:53 pm

Security personnel gather near the entrance of the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021.

Australian researcher who worked in Wuhan lab says she is not ‘naive’ about virus leak theory

Cassidy Morrison · June 28, 2021 4:36 pm