By Reuters Staff MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico reported 4,408 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 217 additional fatalities on Sunday, bringing its totals to 668,381 infections and 70,821 deaths, according to updated Health Ministry data. The government has said the real number of infected people is likely to…

By Reuters Staff MEXICO CITY, Sept 13 (Reuters) – Mexico reported 4,408 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infection and 217 additional fatalities on Sunday, bringing its totals to 668,381 infections and 70,821 deaths, according to updated Health Ministry data. The government has said the real number of infected people is…

By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: A girl walks at a bazaar as she covers her face with a scarf, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran, July 8, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency) Abdollah Heidari via REUTERS DUBAI (Reuters) – The number of confirmed coronavirus…

By Reuters Staff FILE PHOTO: A girl walks at a bazaar as she covers her face with a scarf, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Tehran, Iran, July 8, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency) Abdollah Heidari via REUTERS DUBAI (Reuters) – The number of confirmed coronavirus…

Asthe number of covid-19 cases and deaths in America skyrocketed over the course of this year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services routinely tried to muzzle what information health officials released to the public because now even scientific facts are apparently partisan. According to a new Politico report,…

The administration has come under withering criticism for not acting aggressively enough to confront the virus and failing, for example, to push through bureaucratic red tape in the pandemics early stages to develop diagnostic tests that would work. White House officials say the president is now doing exactly what his…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was just before dawn as seven bulky men in T-shirts and sweatpants gathered in front of a towering glass building on Lexington Avenue in New York City. Marcelo Crespo, a 41-year-old with gleaming green eyes…

Its part of what we do as members of society, Professor Feldman said. We tell people that were feeling well when were not feeling so well. Another common example of lying, he said, is saying that you liked a gift you didnt like. Society operates on lies in many ways,…

A vaccine for the coronavirus is coming. The vaccine will almost certainly be authorized on an emergency basis, and not through the usual approval process at the Food and Drug Administration. That authorization will be subject to some nonzero level of political influence. It is not a question of whether…

Primary care health tech startup Carbon Health has added a new element to its “omnichannel” healthcare approach with the launch of a new pop-up clinic model that is already live in San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Brooklyn and Manhattan, with Detroit to follow soon and that will be rolling out over…