Amid a rise in COVID-19 infections -- as seen by first lady Jill Biden's recent bout with the virus -- public health experts are tracking the numbers but aren't "predicting that this is going to be a tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths the way we saw a year or more ago," Dr. Anthony Fauci said Sunday. "Given the level of immunity that we all have ... in other words, people who have been vaccinated, boosted, people who have been infected like you and I, where we have hybrid immunity, the chances of this being an overwhelming rush of cases and hospitalizations is probably low," Fauci, formerly the White House's top pandemic adviser and now a Georgetown University professor, told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. The next COVID-19 booster, expected to soon be authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, will be an effective tool against the spread as it is "going to be pretty well matched to the kinds of viruses that are now circulating," Fauci said.

Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr plunged to new depths of conspiracy theories when he claimed that Covid-19 was 'ethnically targeted,'

FBI Director Christopher Wray confirmed the agency's conclusion that the COVID pandemic was probably the result of a lab leak in Wuhan, China

A report by the US Office of Inspector General found the country's medical research agency did not correctly review whether the tests in Wuhan involved pathogens with pandemic potential.

The latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that cumulative US cases surpassed nine figures on December 21.

An estimated 94% of people in the U.S. have been infected with the COVID-19 virus at least once, according to according to a new paper from researchers at Harvard’s School of Public Health. T…

Cities including Shijiazhuang, Yanji and Hefei, said they will stop community swabbing, which had become a major fiscal burden for communities across the country.

There were 9,400 fatalities from the virus around the world last week compared to more than 75,000 every seven days in early February. The US is still suffering the most weekly deaths.

A new report by The Washington Post examines the change in Covid-19 mortality that started in October 2021. From the beginning of the pandemic, the racial disparity between Black and white folks dying from the coronavirus was substantial. Black people were more than three times as likely to die from covid as their White counterparts:

Researchers found that states which voted for Democrats in 2020 scored higher than those that went swung Republican - reinforcing claims that liberal areas fared better against the pathogen.

There will be questions about the impartiality of the report given Dr Daszak's links to the Chinese lab at the center of the pandemic. He has previously tried to discredit serious inquiry into the lab.

Biden said the U.S. is exploring “what vaccine if any might be available for it." Israel and Switzerland confirmed cases.