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Florida abortion ban could have impact beyond the state
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Less than a year after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, an expected GOP presidential contender, signed a ban on abortions after the 15-week mark of pregnancy, he’s showing support for an even stricter ban introduced this week by state...
House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The House voted unanimously on Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic.The 419-0 vote was...
Overall US COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Administration Update as of Wed, 08 Mar 2023 06:00:00 EST
Total Doses Distributed = 967,430,045. Total Doses Administered = 672,537,312. Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses = 269,650,596. Number of People Fully Vaccinated = 230,142,115. COVID-19 Vaccination Data Updates
US to relax COVID testing rules for travelers from China
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The Biden administration is preparing to relax COVID-19 testing restrictions for travelers from China as soon as Friday, according to two people familiar with the decision.The people, who were not authorized to comment publicly and spoke...
Overall US COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Administration Update as of Wed, 01 Mar 2023 06:00:00 EST
Total Doses Distributed = 965,128,255. Total Doses Administered = 672,076,105. Number of People Receiving 1 or More Doses = 269,554,116. Number of People Fully Vaccinated = 230,075,934. COVID-19 Vaccination Data Updates
UK health chief’s leaked messages revive raw pandemic debate
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Coronavirus lockdowns have been lifted and face masks are few and far between in Britain these days.But COVID-19 has shot back into the headlines through the leak of more than 100,000 private messages sent or received by the health...
Biden begins push for funding for pandemic fraud measures
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando President Joe Biden's administration is asking Congress to agree to pay more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs.In a strategy announced Thursday, the...
Ex-UK health chief defends record after COVID messages leak
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Britain’s former health minister on Wednesday denied wrongdoing after a newspaper published extracts of private messages he sent in the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic.The Daily Telegraph said the exchanges show that then-Health...
China dismisses FBI statement on COVID-19 lab leak theory
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando For the second day in a row, China on Wednesday dismissed U.S. suggestions that the COVID-19 pandemic may have been triggered by a virus that leaked from a Chinese laboratory.Responding to comments by FBI Director Christopher Wray,...
COVID-19 conjecture soars after latest report on origins
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando COVID-19's origins remain hazy. Three years after the start of the pandemic, it's still unclear whether the coronavirus that causes the disease leaked from a lab or spread to humans from an animal.This much is known: When it comes to...
China says it’s been ‘open and transparent’ on COVID origins
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando China on Tuesday said it has been “open and transparent” in the search for the origins of COVID-19, after questions about how the pandemic began received new attention. Most recently, the U.S. Department of Energy assessed with “low...
Final state emergencies winding down 3 years into pandemic
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando California's coronavirus emergency officially ends Tuesday, nearly three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the nation's first statewide stay-at-home order and just days after the state reached the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths...