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Here's 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 University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation projects deaths could drop to le...

'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 USA surpassed Monday. Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that. They have been working ...

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 it's 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 federal Agency for International Development for nearly 15 years.  The real surprise, he said, is t...

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 pandemic — and then there are the kinds of bubbles the Flaming Lips used at recent concerts. Band memb...

Return to normalcy requires vaccines, masks, distance Fighting for normal Northwell Health's 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 Health's 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 could return to some sense of normalcy including regular schooling and sporting events by the fall.