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- Health workers and relatives carry the body of a COVID-19 victim for cremation in Jammu, India, Sunday, April 25, 2021. The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years. That is more than double its official death toll. The U.N. health agency says most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released Thursday, May 5, 2022 WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes the figure as “sobering." (AP Photo/Channi Anand, File)
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WHO: Nearly 15 million deaths associated with COVID-19
By MARIA CHENG - AP Medical Writer
Thu,05/05/22-7:02AM , 360 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 15 million people were killed either by coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems during the first two years of the pandemic, more than double the current official death toll of over 6 million.
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- Amanda Furdge talks about the contrast of easily finding abortion services when she lived in Illinois and the difficulty of finding the services after she moved back to Mississippi, which has only one abortion clinic, during an interview in Clinton, Miss., on Dec. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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With abortion in jeopardy, minority women have most to lose
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS AND LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press
Tue,05/03/22-11:14PM , 424 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one.
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- This Friday, May 17, 2019 file photo shows a vial of a measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in Mount Vernon, Ohio. According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 21, 2022, a smaller portion of U.S. children got routine vaccinations required for kindergarten during the pandemic, raising concerns that measles and other preventable diseases could increase. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
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Rates for measles, other vaccinations dip for kindergartners
By LINDSEY TANNER - AP Medical Writer
Thu,04/21/22-12:04PM , 179 Reads
A smaller portion of U.S. children got routine vaccinations required for kindergarten during the pandemic, government researchers said Thursday, raising concerns that measles and other preventable diseases could increase.
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- A sign advising visitors to don face coverings stands outside the main entrance to UCHealth University of Colorado hospital Friday, April 1, 2022, in Aurora, Colo. COVID cases are starting to rise again in the United States, with numbers up in most states and up steeply in several. One expert says he expects more of a “bump” than the monstrous surge of the first omicron wave, but another says it’s unclear how high the curve will rise and it may be more like a hill. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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It's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US
By LAURA UNGAR - AP Science Writer
Fri,04/15/22-10:09AM , 853 Reads
Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline.

One big unknown? “We don’t know how high that mountain’s gonna grow,” said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University.
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