Sep 22 U.N. health agency sets higher, tougher bar for air quality By Jamey Keaten, Drew Costley, Associated Press The World Health Organization is setting a higher bar for policymakers and the public in its first update to its air quality guidelines in 15 years. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: Biden announces U.S. has purchased COVID vaccines to donate globally By Zeke Miller, Associated Press President Joe Biden says the U.S. is doubling its purchase of Pfizer's COVID-19 shots to share with the world. Continue reading
Sep 22 WATCH: CDC Advisory Committee discusses COVID-19 boosters By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, Associated Press The meeting came days after a different advisory group — this one serving the Food and Drug Administration — overwhelmingly rejected a sweeping White House plan to dispense third shots to nearly everyone. Continue reading
Sep 21 WATCH: 2021 United Nations General Assembly - Day 2 Racism, climate change and the world’s worsening divisions will take center stage at the U.N. meeting of world leaders, a day after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the world was "on the edge of an abyss.”… Continue reading
Sep 21 Watch 8:29 How COVID-19's death toll and social impact compares to past U.S. pandemics By William Brangham, Ryan Connelly Holmes The death toll from the COVID pandemic has put the U.S. at another tragic milestone — more than 675,000 Americans, overall, have died of COVID as of Monday. That number surpasses the number of lives lost to the 1918 flu. Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 14:08 Bill Gates on vaccine equity, boosters, climate, his foundation and Epstein meetings By PBS NewsHour With world leaders visiting New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates is calling on the world's richest nations to take what he says are urgent steps needed to end "the crisis… Continue watching
Sep 21 Watch 8:13 Inmates released to home confinement during pandemic fear 'devastating' reincarceration By John Yang, Mike Fritz Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Justice Department has released more than 30,000 non-violent inmates to home confinement to try to limit the virus' spread in prison. But, as John Yang reports for our ongoing "Searching for Justice"… Continue watching
Sep 21 What to expect from COVID-19 this winter By Helen Branswell, STAT A COVID season + a flu season = a whole lot of bad news. Continue reading
Sep 21 Johnson & Johnson says booster dose of COVID shot revs up protection By Associated Press Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a stronger immune response months after people receive a first dose. Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch 6:49 How the White House plans to combat the 'silent killer' of rising heat levels By PBS NewsHour 2021 had one of the hottest summers on record, with July being the hottest single month recorded. Extreme heat is expected to worsen with climate change. The Biden administration announced a plan Monday that would develop new workplace standards for… Continue watching