The more people rely on social media as their main news source the more likely they are to believe misinformation about the pandemic, say researchers....
US President Donald Trump has said that White House staffers should not be among the first in the country, currently the hardest-hit by the pandemic, to receive the coronavirus vaccinations....
Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, made a surprise TV appearance, during which she paid tribute to this year's "most inspiring moments and the people who made them happen", a media report said....
US President Donald Trump, who still disputes the outcome of the November 3 election, has refused to rule out the possibility of skipping his successor Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, 2021, the media reported. ...
Los Angeles County, the most populous in the US, has set a new record of Covid-19 hospitalizations for a fourth consecutive day with over 10,000 new cases. ...
Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Robert Redfield said he has signed the recommendation of a key CDC advisory group to use the Covid-19 vaccine of American drugmaker Pfizer in partnership with German company BioNTech....
Using machine learning (ML), a team of US researchers led by Indian-American computer scientist Anshumali Shrivastava at Rice University has discovered an efficient way for social media companies to keep misinformation from spreading online....
As the US gears up for a massive vaccination effort to beat the Covid pandemic, experts have called upon the federal government and the countrymen to be vigilant against anti-vaccination advocates and their "rumours, misinformation, and conspiracy theories in a fractured media universe"....
The US has set yet another record for single-day Covid cases after more than 244,000 people tested positive for the virus, as the country, currently the hardest-hit by the pandemic, is preparing the distribution of the first vaccine against the disease. ...
The first shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine will begin arriving in US states from Monday, an official of President Donald Trump's administration said....
