Month: March 2022

Food and Drug Administration officials on a key committee said Thursday they were not planning to make a decision about granting emergency approval for a “A key FDA vaccine committee declined to vote on a Covid-19 vaccine”

The Republican National Convention on Tuesday spent more time on the opioid epidemic than the entirety of the Democratic National Convention. In a touching speech, “Trump failed on the opioid crisis — and Democrats are letting him get away with it”

The National Hurricane Center warned that Hurricane Laura will cause “life-threatening storm surge” reaching up to 40 miles inland and rising up to 20 feet “Hurricane Laura hits Gulf Coast as an “extremely dangerous” storm”

Wildfires continue burning in California, with unhealthy air from smoke still cloaking some parts of the state. Combined with the Covid-19 pandemic, the fires are “What makes California’s current major wildfires so unusual”

Hurricane Laura made landfall at 1 am ET Thursday in Cameron, Louisiana, as a fierce Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds. It has since “Hurricane Laura: The danger of storm surge, explained”

Before Hurricane Laura made landfall in the United States, it had already proved to be a deadly storm in three Caribbean countries, bringing torrential downpours, “Hurricane Laura was already a deadly storm before it reached the US”

A couple of months ago, President Donald Trump said he told federal officials to “slow the testing down, please.” Now the Trump administration is taking “Trump asked for fewer Covid-19 tests. Now the CDC is recommending less testing.”

To get the US pandemic under control, a growing number of health and medical experts are making a clarion call for an additional testing approach “Rapid $1 Covid-19 tests exist. Why can’t we get them?”

Tropical Storm Laura, which has been downgraded from a hurricane, made landfall early Thursday morning in Cameron, Louisiana — just 35 miles east of the “Tropical Storm Laura’s flooding and other impacts on the ground: What we know”

As America, and even his own administration, woke up to the threat of Covid-19, President Donald Trump still didn’t seem to get it. Within weeks “How Trump let Covid-19 win”