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Star Wars Actor Dies From COVID
Star Wars Actor
Dies From COVID
Jul 7, 2025 2:00 AM CDT

Star Wars Actor Dies From COVID

Kenneth Colley also worked with members of Monty Python

(Newser) - Kenneth Colley, a veteran British actor who appeared in two Star Wars films, died last Monday at his home in England, surrounded by friends, after contracting COVID while hospitalized for an arm injury he suffered in a fall. Colley, 87, then developed pneumonia, his agent said in a statement praising...

North Korea's COVID Negligence Was 'Abominable'
North Korea's COVID
Negligence Was 'Abominable'
NEW REPORT
Jun 17, 2025 10:20 AM CDT

North Korea's COVID Negligence Was 'Abominable'

US institutes conclude death and suffering were 'widespread' despite government claims

(Newser) - North Korea claimed it was blessed with a COVID-19 "miracle," losing only 74 lives during the pandemic without vaccines. But as might be expected in a country with highly controlled media, the truth wasn't so cheery, per the New York Times . Deaths and suffering were "widespread"...

Vaccine Official Quits After RFK Jr. 'Blindsides' CDC

He bypassed normal procedure on COVID vaccine recommendations

(Newser) - A top official at the CDC resigned this week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bypassed normal procedures with an order on the agency's COVID-19 vaccine guidance. Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, who helped oversee CDC vaccine recommendations, announced her resignation to the COVID-19 vaccine work group early Tuesday, according to...

Moderna Wins FDA Approval, With Limits, for COVID Vaccine

Next-generation product requires a smaller dose

(Newser) - Moderna's next COVID-19 vaccine has received Food and Drug Administration approval, albeit with restrictions not placed on the company's current shot. The new vaccine, called mNEXSPIKE, can be given to adults 65 and older and those 12 to 64 years old who have an underlying condition putting them...

FDA Makes a Big Shift on COVID Vaccine Policy

Booster won't be routinely approved for healthy people under 65

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration announced a major shift Tuesday on how COVID-19 vaccines will be approved—and it could mean that not everybody who wants a COVID shot this fall will be able to get one. In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine , top FDA...

Cancer Report Has 'Reassuring' News
Cancer Report Is
'Very Reassuring'
Apr 22, 2025 7:24 AM CDT

Cancer Report Is 'Very Reassuring'

Advanced cancers returned to prepandemic levels, report shows

(Newser) - Many Americans were forced to postpone cancer screenings—colonoscopies, mammograms, and lung scans—for several months in 2020 as COVID-19 overwhelmed doctors and hospitals. But that delay in screening isn't making a huge impact on cancer statistics, at least none that can be seen yet by experts who track...

Administration Pulls Page With COVID Information

Users are redirected to White House site blaming China, Democrats

(Newser) - Until Friday, Americans going to the federal government's online COVID-19 portal could find information about masking, free testing, and treatment for infections of the disease that has killed more than 1 million people in the US. Now anyone going to Covid.gov and Covidtests.gov is redirected to a...

Soldiers Discharged Over Vaccine Mandate Are Reenlisted

Trump ordered the move early in his 2nd term

(Newser) - The US Army has reenlisted more than 23 soldiers who were discharged for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine after the Pentagon mandated the vaccine in 2021. The action follows an order by President Trump to rehire affected troops and provide back pay; the vaccine mandate was dropped in 2023 and...

Family Suing Over Teen's Unwanted Vaccination

North Carolina family says teen was given first dose of COVID vaccine without consent

(Newser) - A North Carolina mother's lawsuit regarding a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine that she says was given to her son without consent is moving forward. The state supreme court ruled Friday that the lawsuit against a public school board could proceed, the Washington Post reports. Emily Happel says the...

Two Men Illustrate Maddening Plight of Long COVID
Two Men Illustrate Maddening
Plight of Long COVID
longform
Mar 23, 2025 5:00 PM CDT

Two Men Illustrate Maddening Plight of Long COVID

Men's Health looks at the ailment through their quests to recover

(Newser) - To understand what it's like to have long COVID these days, a good place to start might be an in-depth story at Men's Health that focuses on the frustrating plights of two men. One is 35-year-old Levi Henry, who used to crush CrossFit workouts before contracting COVID in...

Germany's Spies: COVID Likely Started in a Lab

Nation's spy agency says the virus almost certainly came from a leak out of China

(Newser) - Germany's spy agency is in sync with the CIA in regard to the origins of COVID: Both think it likely originated in a lab in China. After its own analysis, Germany's BND foreign intelligence service thinks there's an 80% to 90% chance that the virus accidentally leaked...

CIA Shifts Toward Lab Leak Theory on COVID

New assessment calls Wuhan laboratory the 'more likely' source

(Newser) - Agreeing with the FBI and the Energy Department, the CIA announced Saturday that it's decided the COVID outbreak probably began with a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China. "CIA assesses with low confidence that a research-related origin of the COVID-19 pandemic is more likely than a natural origin based...

Flu Emergency Room Trips Are 'Very High, CDC Says

Vaccination rates remain low for COVID and RSV as well

(Newser) - The number of emergency room visits involving influenza in the US has crossed into the "very high" level, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Western states are recording some of the largest increases, per CBS News . At the end of December, for instance, the data show 8....

5 Years Ago Today, WHO Picked Up on Illness in Wuhan

The UN agency reiterated its call for China's COVID data

(Newser) - Five years ago today, WHO's Country Office in China picked up a media statement that appeared on the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission's website regarding cases of "viral pneumonia" in Wuhan. It was, of course, COVID-19, and in marking the five-year milestone of the world-changing pandemic, the WHO...

Controversial Hydroxychloroquine Study Retracted

Flawed article promoted drug as a treatment for COVID, potentially led to 'avoidable deaths'

(Newser) - A controversial study finding hydroxychloroquine reduced virus levels in COVID-19 patients has become the second-most-cited research paper ever to be retracted, per Nature . The March 2020 study published in the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents offered hope that the antimalarial drug could help patients at a time when few COVID...

GOP-Run COVID Panel Releases Conclusions

Lockdowns were harmful, report says, attributing virus origin to lab

(Newser) - The House panel looking into the federal response to the pandemic released its final report on Monday, criticizing the lockdowns and other mitigation efforts while deciding the outbreak probably began in a lab in China. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic's chair, Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, said the...

Health Agency Blocks COVID Vaccinations

Board's move in Idaho appears to be a US first

(Newser) - A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board. Southwest District Health appears to be the first in the nation to be restricted from giving COVID-19 vaccines, the AP reports. Vaccinations are an essential...

Ex-Official Admits to Scheme Taking COVID Relief Money

Funding was intended to feed elderly and disabled people in Southern California

(Newser) - A high-ranking elected official in Southern California has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery in a far-reaching scheme that misused COVID-19 relief funds that should have been used to feed the elderly. Andrew Do, who recently resigned as an Orange County supervisor, entered the plea in federal court in...

Pacino Recounts His Harrowing Experience With COVID

Actor says pulse couldn't be found at one point

(Newser) - Al Pacino contracted COVID-19 during the pandemic, before a vaccine was available, and in his upcoming memoir, the actor reveals that he nearly died. Speaking about Sonny Boy, out next week, with People , Pacino recalls of his experience fighting the coronavirus, "I thought I experienced death. I might not...

Government Is Sending Out Free COVID Tests Again

Each US household can sign up for up to 4 nasal swab tests, starting later this month

(Newser) - As we enter the cooler months, various autumn and winter illnesses hover—including COVID-19, which no longer has us immersed in a public health emergency but still has the potential to wreak havoc during flu and cold season. As a result, the US government is again making free coronavirus testing...

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