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‘We don't know what January will bring’ -- Loudoun Co. health director urges caution against flu, colds, COVID 12/27/2022 11:38pm • Declining numbers of new recorded flu cases might suggest the flu season has peaked, but the health director in Loudoun County, Virginia, wants people to remain vigilant and take precautions against all the viruses currently circulating. More Health and Fitness News More Coronavirus Ne States banking big bucks as Fed attempts to fight inflation 12/27/2022 01:28pm • JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State governments emerging from the coronavirus pandemic built historic cash surpluses as inflation in prices and wages drove up sales and income tax collections. Now many states are reaping another reward: banking millions of dollars off those surpluses as the Federal Foreign firms: China 'turns corner' by ending quarantine 12/27/2022 07:10am • BEIJING (AP) — Foreign companies welcomed China’s decision to end quarantines for travelers from abroad as an important step to revive slumping business activity while Japan on Tuesday joined India in announcing restrictions on visitors from the country as infections surge. The ruling Communist China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant 12/26/2022 11:51pm • BEIJING (AP) — Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19. But even as cases surge, 64-year-old Li Liansheng said his friends are alarmed by stories of fevers, blood clots and other side effects. “When people hear about such i China to scrap COVID-19 quarantine for incoming passengers 12/26/2022 01:09pm • BEIJING (AP) — China will drop a COVID-19 quarantine requirement for passengers arriving from abroad starting Jan. 8, the National Health Commission announced Monday in the latest easing of the country’s once-strict virus-control measures. Currently, arriving passengers must quarantine for five Parties are back, but how to dress? A holiday guide 12/26/2022 10:05am • NEW YORK (AP) — The season's triple-virus threat notwithstanding, parties are back, and they've brought with them the potential for some dress code chaos. White tie, black tie, black tie creative/festive, semiformal: It might take some extra re-entry energy to figure out these pre-pandemic guid Long COVID: Could mono virus or fat cells be playing roles? 12/26/2022 09:00am • A British historian, an Italian archaeologist and an American preschool teacher have never met in person, but they share a prominent pandemic bond. Plagued by eerily similar symptoms, the three women are credited with describing, naming and helping bring long COVID into the public’s consciousness Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns 12/26/2022 04:48am • BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full. “They say there Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns 12/26/2022 04:41am • BAZHOU, China (AP) — Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China’s industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 miles) southwest of Beijing. Her mother-in-law had COVID-19 and needed urgent medical care, but all hospitals nearby were full. “They say there What Is the Tomato Flu Virus? 12/25/2022 07:00pm • Earlier this summer, a team of scientists reported a "new virus" in India that affected more than 100 children across three states. In the wake of COVID-19, monkeypox and the re-emergence of polio, the tomato flu outbreak stoked fear of yet another communicable disease that threatened the public's s China's COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant 12/25/2022 07:12am • Could the COVID-19 surge in China unleash a new coronavirus mutant on the world? Scientists don’t know but worry that might happen. It could be similar to omicron variants circulating there now. It could be a combination of strains. Or something entirely different, they say. “China has a populat Anne Arundel Co. wastewater testing reveals rise in COVID cases 12/24/2022 09:32pm • A wastewater monitoring program in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, has revealed that COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the county. The new data was released just as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moved COVID-19 community levels to medium in the county. As case numbers go up in the New law ends COVID-19 vaccine mandate for US troops 12/23/2022 02:58pm • WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine, after the mandate was lifted under an $858 billion defense spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law Friday by President Joe Biden. The department has 30 days to work out the 'A very hard road ahead' for China as COVID-19 cases spiral 12/23/2022 02:59am • BAZHOU, China (AP) — Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus is now spreading through the vast country. Experts predict difficult months ahead for its 1.4 billion people. China’s unyielding “zero-COVID” approach, which aimed to isolate all infected people, Florida high court OKs grand jury probe of COVID-19 vaccines 12/22/2022 04:28pm • TALLAHASSEE (AP) — The Florida Supreme Court will convene a grand jury at Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ request to investigate any wrongdoing with respect to the COVID-19 vaccines, the court announced Thursday. The Republican governor, who is often mentioned as a possible presidential candidate