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Pandemic-weary Americans plan for summer despite COVID surge 05/24/2022 05:51pm • HONOLULU (AP) — A high school prom in Hawaii where masked dancers weren't allowed to touch. A return to virtual city council meetings in one Colorado town after the mayor and others tested positive following an in-person session. A reinstated mask mandate at skilled nursing facilities in Los Angel Vaccines offered to certain people exposed to monkeypox: Here's what you should know 05/24/2022 04:49pm • As global health leaders investigate an unusual outbreak of monkeypox across more than a dozen countries, discussions in the United States have turned to vaccination against the disease -- and certain people exposed to the virus could be offered a vaccine. The US has mobilized vaccine for monkeyp Steve Stricker out of Senior PGA with positive COVID-19 test 05/24/2022 04:47pm • BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Former Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker has pulled out of the Senior PGA Championship after testing positive for the coronavirus. Stricker revealed his positive test Tuesday on Twitter, saying he was “super bummed” and that it was “just a small setback.” Stricke 'Long COVID' symptoms affect 1 in 4 seniors after infection, study finds 05/24/2022 03:51pm • ▶ Watch Video: Senator Tim Kaine on his experience with long COVID, federal aid he is seeking to help others As many as one in four seniors and one in five adults under 65 experienced "long COVID" or "post-COVID" symptoms after surviving a coronavirus infection, a new study from the Ce Davos updates | Soros: New tech, AI help repressive regimes 05/24/2022 03:02pm • DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Billionaire investor turned philanthropist George Soros has blamed new technology for helping repressive regimes like Russia and China exert greater control. Speaking Tuesday at a dinner for journalists on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in United Arab Emirates detects first case of monkeypox 05/24/2022 11:53am • DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Health authorities in the United Arab Emirates detected on Tuesday the country’s first case of the monkeypox virus in a young woman who traveled from West Africa. The government said little about the patient, but stressed that authorities were investigating he EXPLAINER: What is monkeypox and where is it spreading? 05/24/2022 10:22am • LONDON (AP) — Health authorities in Europe, North America, Israel and Australia have identified more than 100 cases of monkeypox in recent days. Officials around the world are keeping watch for more cases because, for the first time, the rare disease appears to be spreading among people who didn� More turn to UK food banks as food and fuel bills soar 05/24/2022 08:20am • LONDON (AP) — For many struggling families, older people and the homeless, Michelle Dornelly’s food hub in east London has been a lifeline. Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit Britain, she has been collecting surplus groceries from supermarkets and distributing them to people who can't afford to buy Pfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5 05/23/2022 07:28pm • Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday, another step toward shots for the littlest kids possibly beginning in early summer. Pfizer plans to submit the findings to U.S. regulators later this week. The Food and Drug COVID-19 may be triggering dramatic hair loss in some people 05/23/2022 06:38pm • Pandemic-related stress may be causing people to lose their hair, and a Maryland doctor wants to reassure people that it's not permanent. "COVID-19 infection can lead to a type of hair loss called telogen effluvium," said Dr. Jamie Goldberg, a dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente's South Baltimore Expert: Monkeypox likely spread by sex at 2 raves in Europe 05/23/2022 04:24pm • LONDON (AP) — A leading adviser to the World Health Organization described the unprecedented outbreak of monkeypox in developed countries as “a random event” that appears to have been caused by sexual activity at two recent raves in Europe. Dr. David Heymann, who formerly headed WHO’s emerge Theories emerge for mysterious liver illnesses in children 05/23/2022 11:53am • NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn't known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy kids. That virus was detected Biden: Monkeypox threat doesn't rise to level of COVID-19 05/23/2022 07:51am • TOKYO (AP) — President Joe Biden sought Monday to calm concerns about recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States, saying he did not see the need to institute strict quarantine measures. Speaking in Tokyo a day after he said the virus was something “to be Kim, other N. Koreans attend large funeral amid COVID worry 05/23/2022 12:51am • SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A huge number of North Koreans including leader Kim Jong Un attended a funeral for a top official, state media reported Monday, as the country maintained the much-disputed claim that its suspected coronavirus outbreak is subsiding. Since admitting earlier this month to an Biden says monkeypox cases something to 'be concerned about' 05/22/2022 03:27pm • PYEONGTAEK, South Korea (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that recent cases of monkeypox that have been identified in Europe and the United States were something “to be concerned about.” In his first public comments on the disease, Biden added: “It is a concern in that if it were to sp