Cuomo: NY Should Have Released Care Home Death Data Faster
NEW YORK (AP) — Under fire over his management of the coronavirus' lethal path through New York’s nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo insisted Monday the state didn't cover up deaths ...
UN Approves AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use
TORONTO (AP) — The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency's partners to shi...
Average New US Virus Cases Below 100K For 1st Time In Months
ATLANTA (AP) — Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned Sunday that infectio...
Chareidim Detained, Harassed In Frankfurt Airport: ‘Antisemitism Par Excellence’
FRANKFURT (VINnews) — A group of Israeli chareidim from Jerusalem received a permit to return to Israel despite the aerial lockdown due to a complex humanitarian issue. The chareid...
Ultra-Orthodox Londoners Roll Up Sleeves To Fight Covid
LONDON (AP) — As people across England huddled indoors amid freezing temperatures and a national lockdown, nearly 300 elderly men and women lined up outside a health center in nort...
Survey: Increase In Israeli Use Of Anti-Depressants During Pandemic Year
JERUSALEM (JNS) - One year into the coronavirus pandemic, Israelis are showing signs of emotional and psychological distress, with consumption of anti-depressants, anti-anxiety med...
NIH Researchers: Humidity From Masks May Lessen Severity Of COVID-19
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Masks help protect the people wearing them from getting or spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, but now researchers from the National Institut...
Lauded Early In Pandemic, Cuomo Now Panned On Nursing Homes
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote a book on managing the COVID-19 crisis. Now he faces intensifying accusations that he covered up the true death toll of the pan...
As New Variants Spread In France, Some Want A 3rd Lockdown
PARIS (AP) — New virus variants are spreading fast in multiple regions of France, causing local authorities to order tougher mask rules and a curfew crackdown around the English Ch...
Fauci: Keep Wearing Masks As Vaccines Roll Out
WASHINGTON – Dr. Anthony Fauci says people will need to wear masks “for several, several months” to avoid the coronavirus as vaccinations are rolled out.
The government’s top in...
Cuomo Sent Over 9,000 Virus Patients Into NY Nursing Homes
NEW YORK (AP) — More than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state were released from hospitals into nursing homes early in the pandemic under a controversial order ...
Biden Says US Is Securing 600 Million Vaccine Doses By July
BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — President Joe Biden visited some of the nation's leading scientists on the frontlines of the fight against COVID-19 on Thursday, as he announced the U.S. will ...
California’s Virus Death Toll Surpasses New York
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California has edged past New York with the most death from the coronavirus. California’s death toll reached 45,496, surpassing New York’s toll of 45,312 on Thur...
Anti-Semitic Flyer In German Tram Blames Jews For The COVID Pandemic
BERLIN (JTA) — Anti-Semitic flyers were found Wednesday on a tram in Cologne, Germany, blaming Jews for the ongoing pandemic.
The black-and-white flyer reads: “Do we really have...
Turned Off From The Vaccine By Misinformation, 36-Year-Old Haredi Orthodox Man In Israel Dies Of COVID
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Avraham Bedman, a 36-year-old man from Jerusalem, died of COVID on Wednesday. His fellow synagogue members are blaming his death on misinformation about the coron...
‘Overwhelm The Problem’: Inside Biden’s War On COVID-19
WASHINGTON (AP) — The meetings begin each day not long after dawn. Dozens of aides report in, coffee in hand, joining by Zoom from agency headquarters, their homes or even adjacent...
NY Allows Stadiums To Reopen For Sports, Entertainment
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Large arenas and stadiums in New York can soon reopen for sports and entertainment at 10% of their normal capacity under a plan announced by Gov. Andrew Cuomo o...
CDC Study Finds Two Masks Are Better Than One vs. COVID-19
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. government researchers found that two masks are better than one in slowing coronavirus spread, but health officials stopped short of recommending that everyone...
AP Poll: US Adults Skeptical Of Vaccine
NEW YORK — About 1 in 3 Americans say they definitely or probably won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine.
The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research foun...
Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Reject Criticism, Defy Virus Rules
JERUSALEM (AP) — Mendy Moskowits, a member of the ultra-Orthodox Belz Hassidic sect in Jerusalem, doesn’t understand the uproar toward believers like him.
In recent weeks, ultra...