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J&J suspends COVID-19 vaccine sales forecast 04/19/2022 10:41am • Johnson & Johnson is suspending sales forecasts for its COVID-19 vaccine only a few months after saying the shot could bring in as much as $3.5 billion this year. A global supply surplus and uncertainty about future demand — fueled in part by vaccine hesitancy in some developing markets — pr Puzzling outbreak of liver disease in kids spreads to EU, US 04/19/2022 09:54am • LONDON (AP) — Health officials say they have detected more cases of a mysterious liver disease in children that was first identified in Britain, with new infections spreading to Europe and the U.S. Last week, British officials reported 74 cases of hepatitis, or liver inflammation Moderna announces step toward updating COVID shots for fall 04/19/2022 09:24am • Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work. Today's COVID-19 vaccines all are based on the original version of the coronavirus. Florida judge voids US mask mandate for planes, other travel 04/18/2022 11:36pm • ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge in Florida struck down a national mask mandate on airplanes and mass transit Monday, and airlines and airports swiftly began repealing their requirements that passengers wear face coverings. The judge's decision freed airlines, airports and mass transit Officials say bird flu found at 3rd Indiana duck farm 04/18/2022 05:37pm • INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Avian influenza has been detected in a third northern Indiana duck farm, state officials said Monday. Laboratory testing of a third commercial duck flock in Elkhart County came back as presumptively positive for the virus, the Indiana State Board of Animal Health said. The sam Does the US response to HIV/AIDS hold lessons for overcoming COVID-19? 04/18/2022 02:04pm • When it comes to figuring out the best way to handle COVID-19, the way the nation handled the HIV/AIDS crisis from 40 years ago could provide a good starting point. Richard Sorian is intimately familiar with the topic. The senior vice president of communications for 340B Health, a group of public Tourism-reliant Cyprus scraps virus tests for most travelers 04/18/2022 04:50am • NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus authorities on Monday made traveling to the east Mediterranean island nation easier as the summer tourist season kicks into gear by rescinding the need to undergo any COVID-19 tests prior to boarding a flight or on arrival. According to the new regulations, only unvac Shanghai reports first deaths in current COVID-19 outbreak 04/18/2022 04:29am • BEIJING (AP) — Shanghai authorities on Monday reported the first COVID-19 deaths in the latest outbreak in China’s most populous and wealthiest city. All three people who died were elderly, had underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension and had not been vaccinated against the coronavi Shanghai quarantine: 24-hour lights, no hot showers 04/18/2022 12:28am • BEIJING (AP) — Beibei sleeps beside thousands of strangers in rows of cots in a high-ceilinged exhibition center. The lights stay on all night, and the 30-year-old real estate saleswoman has yet to find a hot shower. Beibei and her husband were ordered into the massive National Exhibition and Con China's economy grows still-weak 4.8% in January-March 04/17/2022 11:39pm • BEIJING (AP) — China’s economic growth edged up to a still-weak 4.8% over a year earlier in the first three months of 2022 as industrial cities shut down to fight coronavirus outbreaks, threatening to disrupt global trade and manufacturing. Growth in the world's second-largest economy crept up f Alcantara homers, D-Backs finally beat Mets in New York 04/16/2022 05:53pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Sergio Alcantara snapped a scoreless tie with a two-run homer in the seventh inning, Ketel Marte added an RBI double and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the New York Mets 3-2 Saturday. Arizona ended an 11-game skid at Citi Field with its first victory in Queens since Aug. 24, 2017. N Preview capsules for the first round of the NBA playoffs 04/16/2022 01:19am • Preview capsules for the NBA's first-round playoff series: ___ EASTERN CONFERENCE No. 1 MIAMI HEAT (53-29) vs. No. 8 ATLANTA HAWKS (43-39) Season series: Heat, 3-1. Story line: Miami went out and added Kyle Lowry to the mix last summer, pairing him with Jimmy Butler and an array of shooters with an States scale back food stamp benefits even as prices soar 04/15/2022 10:15pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Month by month, more of the roughly 40 million Americans who get help buying groceries through the federal food stamp program are seeing their benefits plunge even as the nation struggles with the biggest increase in food costs in decades. The payments to low-income individ Rise in COVID cases sparks concern, but expert urges calm amid latest surge 04/15/2022 06:04pm • COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in the D.C. area and across the Northeastern U.S., driven by a subvariant of omicron, and now the world is facing the possibility of even newer mutations of the virus. But one expert says we shouldn’t be alarmed by this latest surge, just yet. “Over the Mysterious liver illness seen in kids in US, Europe 04/15/2022 03:56pm • NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials in several countries are investigating mysterious cases of severe liver disease in children, and they think it may be related to a kind of virus usually associated with colds. The U.K. has been investigating at least 74 cases in which children came down with hepati