Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said that "we don't know" where the coronavirus originated....
An ousted US vaccine agency official filed a whistleblower complaint alleging his early warnings about the coronavirus were ignored and that his caution at a treatment favoured by President Donald Trump led to his removal....
An Indian-American scientist-led team from the University of Missouri has found that four antiviral drugs, including remdesivir, a drug originally developed to treat Ebola, are effective in inhibiting the replication of the coronavirus causing COVID-19....
The global number of deaths due to the novel coronavirus has surpassed the 250,000 mark, according to the the Johns Hopkins University....
A woman in the US state of Michigan has been charged along with her husband and son with killing a security guard who refused her daughter entry to a shop because she was not wearing a face mask, a media report said on Tuesday....
With about half of the 50 US states beginning to relax the COVID-19 restrictions without fully meeting the criteria for it, new models of the pandemic's deadly force say a sharply higher death toll is possible. ...
Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced a Safe Start plan that allows the US state's economy to reopen in a phased approach amid the COVID-19 pandemic starting Tuesday....
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that the most populous US state will enter a second stage of COVID-19 recovery at the end of this week, allowing some retail businesses to reopen with modifications. ...
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has renewed Washington's goal of denuclearizing North Korea and creating a "bright future" for its people after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's return to the public eye following his 20-day absence, a media report said on Monday....
Obese people, read this carefully. Researchers have found that men with a history of obesity in their late teens, in adult life, are more at risk of a blood clot (thrombus) in a leg or lung. The risk rises successively and is highest in those who were severely obese in adolescence. ...