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Biden’s COVID symptoms improve, White House says

WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 symptoms left President Joe Biden with a raspy voice and cough as he met Friday via videoconference with his top economic team. But the president tried to strike a reassuring tone, declaring, “I feel much better than I sound.” Later Friday, White House officials told reporters that Biden was working more than eight hours a day. His appetite hadn’t diminished — with Biden showing off an empty plate with some crumbs when speaking with his advisers — and he signed bills into law and took part in his daily intelligence briefings, albeit via ...

Biden has ‘very mild’ COVID-19 symptoms

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday and went into isolation with mild symptoms. White House officials went all-out to show that the 79-year-old U.S. leader could power through the virus and keep working because he was vaccinated and boosted. In a ...

CDC endorses more traditional Novavax COVID shot for adults

U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax -- a more traditional kind of vaccine, health officials said Tuesday. Regulators authorized the nation’s first so-called protein vaccine against COVID-19 last week, but the final hurdle was a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “If you have been waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine built on a different technology than those previously available, now is the time to join the millions of Americans who have been vaccinated,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, CDC's ...

Local virus data shows upswing in area cases

Local data Thursday showed area COVID-19 activity back on the rise, with Dickinson County recording 37 new confirmed coronavirus positives and Iron County 26 cases in the past week. Dickinson County also had 24 probable coronavirus cases and Iron County two probables since July 7, according ...

Experts say simple steps not taken before latest virus surge

With new omicron variants again driving COVID-19 hospital admissions and deaths higher in recent weeks, states and cities are rethinking their responses and the White House is stepping up efforts to alert the public. Some experts said the warnings are too little, too late. The highly ...

Dozens of Dickinson-Iron COVID cases reported, but no new deaths

Local data Thursday showed Dickinson County with 24 new confirmed COVID-19 positives and Iron County 21 in the past week. Dickinson County also had 10 probable coronavirus cases and Iron County one probable since June 30, according to figures posted Thursday on the Dickinson-Iron ...