delta variant
‘Next to Impossible to Escape’: Omicron Is Like Nothing We've Seen Before
The United States is shattering new case records, and that's almost certainly an undercount.
Omicron Is Here, But Delta Is Still Killing 1,000 People a Day
Omicron is spreading, but there were nearly 200,000 new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. on Monday, almost all of them from the Delta variant.
The Worst of the Fourth Wave Is Over in Canada. The Prairies Are Still a Mess.
Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as the Northwest Territories, still have frighteningly high rates of active COVID-19 infections.
Just a Bunch of Easy Ways to Make Vaxxed Hangouts Safer in the Delta Era
If you're worried about breakthrough infections but really want to see your friends, good news: You have way more options now.
Teachers Are Mad As Hell They're Getting COVID in Anti-Mask States
“I’m angry I could have given it to my husband, or my children. I don’t know if I want to teach in this state anymore.”
QAnon Is Harassing a Hospital Into Giving Bogus COVID ‘Cure’ Ivermectin
Veronica Wolski, who is known for boosting anti-vaccine and QAnon conspiracies from a bridge in Chicago, was hospitalized two weeks ago.
Police Unions Are Going to War Over COVID Vaccine Mandates
“We’re in America, goddamn it,” Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police president said. “We don’t want to be forced to do anything. Period. This ain’t Nazi fucking Germany.”
Why Health Workers in the Philippines Are Walking Off the Job
The strikes come at a time when the country is experiencing its worst coronavirus surge.
Anti-Masker Charged With Child Abuse After Pushing Student Who’d ‘Had Enough’
The parent was walking his 10th-grade daughter to school, which has turned her away multiple times over her refusal to wear a mask.
The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a Total COVID Disaster—Again
For the second year in a row, hundreds of thousands of bikers got together and likely gave each other COVID.
Unvaccinated Couple Died of COVID 3 Hours Apart and Left Behind 2 Teens
Martin and Trina Daniel were skeptical about taking the COVID vaccine, and it cost them their lives.