The young residents of US are dying at an alarming rate, the rates have seen a significant rise since 2020 but surprisingly Covid-19 is not the reason behind this, rather the social disruption caused by the lockdowns has more to do with this.

US: Young people dying in US at alarming rates, death rates high-ever since pandemic

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might start collecting wastewater from aeroplanes on international routes to track emerging coronavirus variants.

US plans to sample airline wastewater as COVID-19 cases rise in China

Passengers from China now need to show negative COVID-19 results before boarding flights to the United States, the country’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced.

Passengers travelling from China to US now need to show negative Covid test

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is scurrying through death certificates across the country to analyse death cases that might be linked to long Covid.

US govt analysing deaths attributed to long Covid: Report

Some parts of the United States have been seeing a fresh spike in COVID-19 infections again, causing concern among the officials. According to local media reports, cases in the northeastern part of the US is ticking up due to the BA.

BA.2 Covid variant driving new infections in some parts of US

The Covid 19 pandemic has reached yet another grim milestone in the United States. According to the John Hopkins University, the nation's cumulative death toll from the Covid 19 infections has surpassed the 900 000 mark. The latest number has been fueled by the omicron variant of the coronavirus.

United States reaches a grim milestone in fight against Covid 19

Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines are not just preventing infections with the contagious omicron variant — they are also keeping infected Americans from ending up in the hospital, according to data published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Booster shots are instrumental in fighting Omicron, CDC data show

Hospitalization in the US has reached a record high on Monday, with several states struggling to cope with the spike in cases. Now there were 132,000 hospitalizations for Covid, crossing the record set in January last year. But hospitalizations have been increasing steadily since late December, as the Omicron quickly took over Delta as the dominant version of the virus.

United States break Covid hospitalization record

Omicron cases continue to spread virtually as a wildfire. Australia has now said that it has surpassed the grim milestone of a million Covid 19 infections with more than half of them having been recorded in just the last week.

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of million Covid 19 infections, more than half of them recorded in last week

Australia has now surpassed the milestone of a million Covid 19 infections

United States has reported its first death due to Omicron variant of COVID-19, health officials said. The deceased is a man in his 50s from Texas and was reportedly unvaccinated.

US reports first death due to Omicron variant—an unvaccinated man in his 50s

US Vice President Kamala Harris has acknowledged that the Biden administration couldn’t anticipate the emergence of variants like Omicron and Delta. Speaking to Los Angeles Times newspaper on the Covid situation in the country, Harris on Friday said, “We didn't see Delta coming…We didn't see Omicron coming.

US Vice President Kamala Harris admits Biden admin ‘failed to see Omicron variant coming’

Seven doctors, who are staunch anti-Covid vaccine, contracted the deadly virus after attending an event in Floria to discuss alternative methods to cure coronavirus.

Seven doctors contract Covid after attending anti-vaccine summit in Florida

It was a hot morning in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the day that Peter Naughton woke up on the floor. Sore, disoriented, he’d already grasped what his mother was now telling him: He’d had another seizure.

‘Every day is frightening’: Working for the top US employer amid Covid

As the United States continues to report a rising number of COVID-19 cases and deaths fuelled by the delta variant outbreak, the chief of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, has sounded alarm stating that the nation’s health systems “are in dire straits”, forcing some states to prepare for rationed medical care.

As delta outbreak ravages US, CDC chief says health systems ‘in dire straits'

A massive rise in Wuhan Virus deaths. Thousands of migrants amassing at the Texas border. Allies second-guessing his leadership. Joe Biden begins UNGA week as an embattled host. Can he turn it around with a good show in New York? Palki Sharma tells you.

Gravitas US Edition: Embattled Biden set to welcome world leaders

It took the US about nine months to cross 100,000 average daily cases in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January.

US averaging 100,000 new Covid infections a day

Job openings in June increased largely in services industries, which continue to ramp up operations as consumers unleashed pent-up demand.

US job openings top 10 million in June, a new record

The Delta variant, first detected in India, accounts for 83% of all new cases reported in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

US COVID-19 cases hit six-month high at over 100,000: Report

'Today is a great day for America', US President Joe Biden said during a Rose Garden address. 'US has finally reached to a stage where at least the fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear masks', he added. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that 'its totally safe for people who has completed their jab cycle to ditch their masks if they wish to'.

'Fully vaccinated people can now ditch masks': Joe Biden

The United States has supported India's proposal to waive vaccine patents to defeat the pandemic. Can any company now make Wuhan virus vaccines? Where does the rest of the developed world stand on waivers? Can Big Pharma stall the waiver?

Gravitas | Covid Vaccine Patents: Big win for India at the World Trade Organisation

The report says that about 30 percent of the US population is still reluctant to be vaccinated, according to polls, adding that the resistance to the vaccines is a main reason the United States is unlikely to reach herd immunity.

Experts believe US unlikely to attain herd immunity in near future

Fully vaccinated adults 65 years and older were 94% less likely to be hospitalised with COVID-19 than people of the same age who were not vaccinated, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

Vaccinated adults 65 and older 94% less likely to be hospitalised with COVID-19, says US CDC

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released updated guidelines detailing activities that vaccinated people can safely resume, including attending small outdoor gatherings without the need to wear a mask.

Vaccinated Americans can exercise, ditch the mask outdoors: CDC

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