Pandemic

Months of mixed messages, political pressure and public gaffes about COVID-19 have caused morale at the Centers for Disease Control to turn "toxic," say four current and two former CDC staffers, with one saying the election could be a "tipping point" for a mass exodus if President Donald Trump wins."The…

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) — Polling stations opened Sunday across Lithuania for a parliamentary runoff election in which the winner will have to tackle a growing health crisis and high unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic. The election is widely expected to bring about a change of leadership in the southernmost…

FBI to Interview Hunter Biden Business Partner The FBI has asked Tony Bobulinski, former business partner of Hunter Biden, to sit for an interview on Friday, Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) told reporters. Bobulinski was initially scheduled to give an interview on Friday to members of various Senate committees regarding…

Formerly known as the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, AACE has rebranded itself as the American Association of Clinical Endocrinology to include a "global, inclusive community" of endocrine-focused professional members. Telemedicine, eConsultations, and Project Echo: these are just a few of the ways the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a catalyst…

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Canada in early 2020, many places of worship were caught off guard. Two Winnipeg congregations, however — Saint Benedict’s Table and Congregation Shaarey Zedek — were ahead of the game due to the foresight of respective visionaries. Saint Ben’s, as it is known, started moving online…

President Trump repeated baseless claims at the final presidential debate that the coronavirus "will go away" and that the U.S. is "rounding the turn," while Joe Biden argued that any president that has allowed 220,000 Americans to die on his watch should not be re-elected.Why it matters: The U.S. is…

In this year of disruptions, cancellations and virtual events, it’s hard to fathom that the prestigious 11-day Adelaide Film Festival, held biennially in October in South Australia, has proceeded as in pre-pandemic times: no masks, actual red carpets, in-person interviews on stage with filmmakers and talent, afterparties (where social distancing…

In the parking lot of a Tony’s supermarket in Chicago, alone in his car, the man looked in the rearview mirror and reminded himself to be mask meticulous. As meticulous as Nancy Pelosi was with her stylish mask for the cameras after that big maskless hair blowout controversy of hers,…

This year, it was planning on seven and to expand into the United States as part of a strategy to cope with Brexit. Two have gone ahead – one in Germany, traditionally one of its most important markets, and another in non-EU Switzerland.A third show, intended for Europe, is being…

The first wave of the coronavirus outbreak has had a huge impact on UK lung cancer patients' survival and detection rates, a report has said.A third of patients have died since the beginning of the pandemic, experts said, while waiting for life-saving treatment while referrals for the deadly disease dropped…