Health

U.S. to send first vaccine doses to Africa in coming days

By Zeke Miller, Matthew Lee, Associated Press

The shipments come as part of an initial supply of 80 million doses that President Joe Biden had pledged to send out by the end of June, though deliveries were slowed by regulatory and logistical hurdles.

'Pandemic of the unvaccinated' burdens busy U.S. hospitals

By Heather Hollingsworth, Josh Funk, Associated Press

With the highly contagious delta variant spreading rapidly across the country, cases in the U.S. are up about 70% over the last week, hospital admissions are up about 36% and deaths rose by 26%, according to the Centers for Disease…

WATCH: Biden says virus disinformation is 'killing people'

By Associated Press, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

President Joe Biden said Friday that social media companies are “killing people” by failing to police misinformation on their platforms about COVID-19 vaccines.

WATCH: COVID-19 becoming 'a pandemic of the unvaccinated,' warns CDC director

By News Desk and Associated Press

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. is becoming “a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”…

With virus cases rising, mask mandate back on in Los Angeles

By Christopher Weber, John Antczak, Associated Press

Los Angeles County will again require masks indoors even when people are vaccinated. The public health officer of the nation's largest county said there's now "substantial community transmission."…

As 9 out of 10 U.S. children remain unvaccinated, Surgeon General pushes back against misinformation

By Laura Santhanam

Public health experts fear that the more the virus spreads among the unvaccinated, the more chance that variants could mutate and unravel progress made against the pandemic in pockets of the country where the vaccination rate remains dangerously low.

WHO chief says it was 'premature' to rule out COVID lab leak

By Frank Jordans, Maria Cheng, Associated Press

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19.

WATCH: Surgeon general urges U.S. fight against COVID-19 misinformation

By David Klepper, Associated Press

The warning comes as the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations has slowed throughout the U.S., in part because of vaccine opposition fueled by unsubstantiated claims about the safety of immunizations.

Will an 18-year-old pop star convince young people that the COVID-19 vaccine is good 4 u?

By Chloe Jones

Youth vaccination rates are brutal out here. So the White House tapped Olivia Rodrigo to lend a hand.

25-year-long study of Black women links frequent use of lye-based hair relaxers to a higher risk of breast cancer

By Kimberly Bertrand, The Conversation

Black women could be at higher risk of breast cancer due to frequent use of lye-based hair straighteners. A group of epidemiologists explain their research.