Health & Science

Unions are calling for the Labor Department to implement improved ventilation, physical distancing and masking in workplaces.

“There will come a time when we can say it’s all over,” Hochul said of Covid “We’re not there yet, but boy, it’s on the horizon.”

Martin Shkreli was condemned for raising Daraprim’s price in 2015 by people like Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

President Joe Biden said he would urge businesses to implement the rules voluntarily.

The National Retail Federation said it will take extra precautions, including handing out N95 masks and at-home Covid tests.

GOP Gov. Doug Ducey has 60 days to change the disputed programs or the Biden administration may take back that Covid stimulus money, Treasury said.

United has started offering staff vaccines in airports again as the omicron wave sweeps through crews.

But the overall economic impact of the third wave of infections is expected to be less severe and less disruptive compared to the previous two waves.

President Biden urged companies to voluntarily impose Covid vaccination rules on workers after the Supreme Court blocked a government order to do that.

The Supreme Court ruled against the Biden administration’s rule for OSHA, saying it did not have the power to require vaccination for millions of Americans.

President Joe Biden said the White House next week will announce how it is providing high-quality masks to Americans for free.

The federal government will deploy six teams of military medical personnel to hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico.

The highly transmissible omicron variant will be a “very difficult challenge” as Hong Kong sticks to its zero-Covid policy, said Kurt Tong of The Asia Group.

Cuba remains the only country in Latin America and the Caribbean to have produced a homegrown shot for Covid.

Omicron patients at Kaiser Permanente Southern California were 74% less likely to end up in ICUs and 91% less likely to die than delta patients, a study found.

Gov. Phil Murphy said the state is seeing nearly 35,000 new Covid cases daily and in the past two weeks more than 10,000 residents have been hospitalized.

“The sheer volume of cases is putting a burden on health-care systems,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19.

“It’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now, which is most people are going to get Covid,” acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said.

The U.K. could be one of the first countries to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, according to one leading scientist.

There are growing calls in Europe for the coronavirus to be treated as an endemic illness, like the flu, as politicians ache for a return to normality.