Health

WASHINGTON – Environmental Protection Agency chief Rewandrew Wheeler plans to embark on two taxpayer-funded trips abroad – Taiwan next month and four Latin American countries in January – President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. sets out to overturn most of his policies before taking office. Both trips have raised concerns about …

Graphic: Lifehacker, Photo: Shutterstock c A recent study of masks worn in Denmark is being shared as if to prove that masks do not protect us. This is not what the study really says. I will go into the following specifics, but for now I want to show a couple …

The novel coronavirus is “out of control” in Alabama, a state health official warned this week. About 225,910 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Alabama to date, according to state health department data. The daily rolling average of new cases has risen to 4,684 in the last two weeks, …

TAMPA – Tampa General will be one of the first hospitals in Florida to receive the coronavirus vaccine, a spokesman confirmed Thursday. The hospital did not immediately release any additional information, but news reports suggest it will be one of five hospitals across the state to receive shipments next month. …

Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – Ethiopia’s army chief has accused the head of the World Health Organization, a fellow Ethiopian, of providing arms and other aid to neighboring Tigre region, which the central government has been fighting for two weeks. . He did not cite any evidence. General Birhanu Jula told …