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AN estimated one in eight people in England had had Covid-19 by December last year, up from one in 11 in November, new figures show.

New study shows 'substantial variation' between regions

Pastor, Sioux Falls, South Dakota Lebensunwertes Leben is a chilling German phrase that means “life unworthy of life.” It was coined in 1920 by two German professors, Karl Binding and Alfred Hoche, who thought that people with congenital, mental, or developmental disabilities burden their families and the state while contributing nothing. Hoche described such people as “human ballast” and “empty shells of human beings.” These are lives unworthy of life, they argued, and it should be permissible to end them. That argument was the seed that grew into the horrific f...

It takes only one point of contact to get the virus. But it will take far more exposure to high-quality information to persuade vaccine skeptics.

BARCELONA, Spain —  A judge in northwest Spain has overruled a family’s objections and decided to allow health authorities to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to an incapacitated woman in a nursing home. The case appears to be the first known instance of a court in Europe requiring someone to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The Spanish government repeatedly has stressed that shots would be voluntary, as have authorities in other European countries. In a ruling seen by the Associated Press on Wednesday, the judge for the court in the autonomous northwest community of Galicia recently ruled in fav...