Shoppers wearing face masks wait in line to enter a store at the Citadel Outlets in Commerce on Nov. 26. Faced with rising coronavirus cases and growing concerns about the Omicron variant, California is ordering a statewide mask mandate for indoor public spaces to go into effect on Wednesday. “We are proactively putting this tool of universal indoor masking in …
Experts Warn Lag In Global Vaccinations Could Lead To Dangerous Variants Thanks to widespread vaccinations, the U.S. is reopening. AIZENMAN: There's even been small but sudden upswings in Taiwan and Vietnam, which took aggressive precautions at the start of the pandemic and until recently had almost completely insulated themselves from COVID. AIZENMAN: And so, he says, U.S. officials need to …
CNN — Donald Trump was in his element. He lobbed insults, calling her “Gretchen ‘Half’ Whitmer” on Twitter and telling Vice President Mike Pence, the head of the coronavirus task force, “don’t call the woman in Michigan.” While government officials and public health experts have devoted years to efforts to enhance US preparedness for a pandemic, a key factor went …