Tag: COVID-19

Lower AstraZeneca vaccine efficacy against South African strain could complicate pandemic response

David Hogberg · March 17, 2021 4:18 pm

Republican attorneys general demand clarity on relief bill’s tax cut conditions for state aid

Jeremy Beaman · March 17, 2021 4:03 pm

Public school teachers picket outside Amundsen High School on the first day of a strike by the Chicago Teachers Union, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in Chicago. The school is one of more than 140 schools in the Chicago Public Schools' "Children First" contingency plan, which feeds and houses students for four hours during the strike. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)

Large majorities of Republicans and Democrats agree it’s time to reopen schools: Poll

Michael Lee · March 17, 2021 3:45 pm

In this June 6, 2012 photo, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis casts her ballot during a strike authorization vote at a Chicago high school. Angered by Mayor Rahm Emanuelâs call for a longer school day and wage and benefit concessions, 25,000 Chicago teachers voted this week to consider authorizing their first strike in a quarter-century. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Chicago Teachers Union pushes back on in-person learning date and accuses mayor of trying to force a decision

Barnini Chakraborty · March 17, 2021 3:33 pm

Moderna chief: ‘We could be vaccinating adolescents going into the school year’

Mike Brest · March 17, 2021 1:39 pm

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 relief package in the State Dining Room of the White House, Monday, March 15, 2021, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Biden’s crisis response lays the groundwork for a liberal push

David Davenport · March 17, 2021 10:00 am

Rambo Islas, 8 months, is held by his mother Maria Islas, as he gets a shot for a vaccine administered by RN, Nicole Ives at the Dallas County Health & Human Services immunization clinic in Dallas on Friday, March 8, 2019.

Woman gives birth to first known baby with COVID-19 antibodies

Kaelan Deese · March 17, 2021 12:07 am

World Health Organization urges European countries to keep using Astrazeneca vaccine

World Health Organization urges European countries to keep using Astrazeneca vaccine

Joel Gehrke · March 17, 2021 12:00 am

Mississippi broadens vaccine eligibility to all despite slow rollout

Cassidy Morrison · March 16, 2021 11:46 pm

The end of President Trump's term was marred by an oil price crash caused by the coronavirus pandemic that briefly had crude trading below zero.

Trump recommends COVID-19 vaccine, even to ‘people that don’t want to get it’

Kaelan Deese · March 16, 2021 11:43 pm

Georgia to use $277M in federal coronavirus aid on transportation projects

Washington Examiner · March 16, 2021 9:00 pm

The Washington Regional Alcohol Program will provide free rides home on St. Patrick's Day through its SoberRide program. (Photo: Thinkstock)

Maskless, partying college students arrested and investigation launched into ‘St. Fratty’s Day’ party

Emma Colton · March 16, 2021 7:50 pm