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Heres the biggest news you missed this weekend Editors, USA TODAY © Marcio Jose Sanchez, AP A sign encourages visitors to wear face masks amid the COVID-19 pandemic Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Santa Monica, Calif. US nears 500,000 deaths as medical workers fight on As the United States nears a once-unthinkable 500,000 deaths from COVID-19, a leading forecasting institute estimates at least 90,000 more Americans are likely to die from the virus by June 1. By then, the Unive...

This is our generation’s D-Day: As US surpasses 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, weary health care workers fight on amid the heartbreak Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY Experts say COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective on some variants Replay Video UP NEXT SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the U...

USA TODAY The decision by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Merck to get out of the COVID-19 vaccine research business should have little direct impact on efforts to vaccinate Americans – and its proof safety protocols are working, experts say. Developing a vaccine is challenging and laden with failures, so Merck’s announcement Monday that it was giving up development of two COVID-19 vaccines after poor results  wasn’t a complete surprise, said Dennis Carroll, who led the pandemic unit at the f...

Medical professionals questioned how well the individual plastic bubbles protected band members and concertgoers from the coronavirus. The Flaming Lips have used plastic bubbles at concerts to protect against the transmission of the coronavirus, but some experts were unsure about the effectiveness of those measures.Credit...Scott Booker/Warner Music Jan. 25, 2021 There are Covid-19 bubbles — small clusters of friends or family who agree to socialize exclusively with each other during the pand...

Return to normalcy requires vaccines, masks, distance Fighting for normal Northwell Healths director of global health said the U.S. could achieve a sense of normalcy, including regular schooling and sporting events, by fall. KINGS PARK, N.Y. - The New Year and how it unfolds for the most part is in our hands, according to Northwell Healths director of global health. Dr. Eric Cioe-Peña said that a spike after the holidays is likely but as more Americans receive COVID-19 vaccines, the nation cou...

December 20, 2020 People at London’s St Pancras station, waiting to board the last train to Paris before the lockdown deadline. Stefan Rousseau/Getty Images A mutation of the COVID-19 virus that appears to have started in Great Britain as early as September and is more contagious than the original coronavirus has been spreading rapidly throughout England. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced over the weekend that Christmas shopping and gatherings in southern England would be cancele...

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the infection was “out of control” in Southern England. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who described the new variant as 70% more transmissible than the original, ordered tighter restrictions and dropped a much-anticipated relaxation of rules that had been set to kick in across much of England ahead of the holidays. More than 16 million people are now ordered to stay at home in London and southeast England, and socializing elsewhere in the country i...