Monthly Archives: December 2022

[1/3] A woman wearing a protective mask and a face shield walks outside the Shanghai Railway Station, as coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreaks continue in Shanghai, China, December 13, 2022. REUTERS/Aly SongGENEVA, Dec 14 (Reuters) – COVID-19 infections were exploding in China well before the government's decision to abandon its strict "zero-COVID" policy, a World Health Organization […]

A former Texas police officer has been convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019.  Jurors found Aaron Dean, 38, not guilty of murder, but convicted him of manslaughter in the death of Atatiana Jefferson, 28. Dean faces up to 20 years in prison but […]

Congress expected to repeal Pentagon’s Covid vaccine mandate for U.S. troops  CNBCsource

Brazilian father kills his four children using a pillow and knife ‘to get ‘revenge on their mother, 24, after she left him’ Police arrested David da Silva Lemos, 28, for stabbing his four children to death The bodies of the victims were found in the suspect’s home in Alvorada, Brazil He told police he had […]

Colleges and universities across the country are mandating students to receive an updated COVID-19 booster shot, but some are calling the requirement “out of line” and unnecessary.Students at Yale University, University of Notre Dame, Tufts University, Harvard University and Fordham College are all being required to obtain an updated COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine, with some […]

Almost half of cancers are being diagnosed after they are likely to have spread, a new report has revealed. The number of people who were diagnosed early at stage one or two fell to 52 per cent in 2020, figures from NHS Digital show. The drop will see thousands more patients die from the disease […]

Study assesses COVID-19 booster vaccination coverage by demographics and behaviors and experiences toward vaccination among fully vaccinated adults  News-Medical.Netsource

Tories face election disaster in ‘Sea Wall’: Poll finds Rishi Sunak’s party is down 19 POINTS since the last election in English and Welsh coastal towns they have won for decades Analysis of 108 coastal seats found vote share down from 51% in 2019 to 32% The poll by YouGov found that Labour now has a […]

{{headline}} Ciara Wells | ciara.wells@wtop.com December 15, 2022, 6:35 AMChildren as young as 6-months-old are now eligible to receive the COVID-19 bivalent booster vaccine in D.C. and Virginia.Health departments in both jurisdictions Wednesday announced the availability of the vaccines.D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DC Health are encouraging residents to be up-to-date on their COVID-19 and […]

Meghan Markle told the Netflix docuseries how she became close with a community of women who survived the Grenfell fire after watching news coverage of the tragedy.  She regularly visited a group of women in a community hub for nine months, helping to feed families and even worked alongside them to launch a cookbook called […]