Latest COVID-19 Headlines
All the headlines from our COVID-19 Topic Page, ordered by recency.
COVID-19 Cases, Deaths on Rise Again at Nursing Homes
Jan 18 2022 // COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too, leading to new restrictions on family visits and a renewed push to get more residents and staff members...
Businesses, Labor Take Stock After Supreme Court Tosses Biden Covid-19 Rule
Jan 18 2022 // For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them. Many large corporations were...
Maryland Confirms Ransomware Attack Disrupted Agency Reporting COVID-19 Data
Jan 18 2022 // The disruption of Maryland’s reporting of COVID-19 data last month was caused by a ransomware attack, state officials said Wednesday. Chip Stewart, the state’s chief information security officer, said the state...
Credit Suisse Plunged Into Chaos After Chairman Ousted for Breaching COVID Rules
Jan 17 2022 // The banker tasked with fixing Credit Suisse Group AG was ousted just nine months into the job for breaching COVID quarantine rules, throwing the Swiss financial giant into fresh turmoil as it struggles to emerge from a...
What the Supreme Court Justices Said in Blocking OSHA’s COVID-19 Workplace Rule
Jan 14 2022 // The Supreme Court yesterday blocked the Biden Administration from implementing an order requiring businesses with more than 100 employees to require COVID-19 vaccines or testing and masks for their employees. In National...
Workplace Class Action Payouts Unexpectedly Grew During Pandemic in 2021
Jan 14 2022 // The cost of settling workplace class-action lawsuits reached a record high in 2021, defying expectations that the COVID-19 pandemic would decrease the size and reduce the number of payouts, according to a new report by the...
Health Insurers Cooperating With Plan to Pay for Home COVID Tests Starting Saturday
Jan 13 2022 // Starting Saturday, private health insurers will be required to cover up to eight home COVID-19 tests per month for people on their plans. The Biden administration announced the change Monday as it looks to lower costs and...
Global Life Insurers Adapt Pandemic Risk Models After Unexpected Jump in Claims
Jan 13 2022 // A coronavirus pandemic which lasts five years, another pandemic in a decade, and ever more transmissible variants are among the scenarios life insurers are predicting after COVID-19 claims jumped more than expected in...
Employers Fear Long-Term Liability From ‘Take-Home’ COVID-19 Lawsuits
Jan 12 2022 // As COVID-19 cases surge in the United States, businesses say they fear a California court ruling has increased the likelihood that companies will be sued for infections, even by people who are not employees or...
Oregon Rolling Out Hospital Crisis Care Standards as COVID Surges
Jan 11 2022 // Oregon hospitals have new interim guidelines to help them determine which patients should get lifesaving care if the current COVID-19 surge forces them to choose between people because of a lack of beds, staff or critical...
Pandemic Adding Cost to Rebuild After Colorado Wildfire
Jan 11 2022 // Rex and Barba Hickman’s home of 23 years near the foothills of the Rocky Mountains has been reduced to a blackened heap by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history. Before the Dec. 30 blaze, which ripped...
Louisiana Supreme Court Upholds Employer COVID Vaccine Mandate
Jan 10 2022 // The Louisiana Supreme Court on Jan. 7 unanimously upheld a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state’s largest healthcare system. The ruling was handed down the same day that the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments about...
Kansas High Court Ruling Keeps Law Allowing COVID Lawsuits Alive
Jan 10 2022 // Kansas’ highest court on Jan. 7 kept intact a law that allows people to sue counties over mask mandates and other COVID-19 restrictions and obtain quick trial-court decisions. The Kansas Supreme Court declined to...
California Governor Wants $2.7B to Battle Pandemic, Seeks More Time off for Sick Workers
Jan 10 2022 // With new coronavirus cases surging across the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Saturday proposed spending another $2.7 billion to expand testing and boost hospital staffing, while calling for a...
Flurry of Briefs Filed Supporting, Opposing OSHA COVID-19 ETS in U.S. Supreme Court
Jan 6 2022 // With the January 7, 2022, oral argument over the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Vaccine or Test Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) in the U.S. Supreme Court fast-approaching, many amici curiae...
Study Questions Link Between In-Person Schooling and COVID Infection Rates
Jan 6 2022 // A new study shows that COVID-19 incidence rates were not statistically different in counties with in-person learning versus remote school modes in most regions of the U.S. Many educators believe that in-person learning...
COVID Spike Forcing Florida Hospital’s Maternity Ward to Close, For Now
Jan 5 2022 // A South Florida hospital has temporarily closed its maternity ward due to staff-shortages related to recent outbreaks of COVID-19. Mothers-to-be who had planned on giving birth at Holy Cross Health in Fort Lauderdale will...
COVID-Cautious Supreme Court Preparing to Rule on Biden Vaccine Mandates
Jan 5 2022 // The U.S. Supreme Court, which has restricted its own operations during the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing to decide whether to block President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandates for large businesses and healthcare workers...
COVID-19 Claims of $44B Are 3rd Largest Catastrophe Loss: Howden
Jan 4 2022 // Insured losses of $44 billion from COVID-19 so far represent the third largest cost to insurers of any catastrophe, behind Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks, insurance broker Howden said on Tuesday. However, initial...
Maryland Resumes Reporting COVID-19 Deaths After Cyber Attack
Jan 3 2022 // Maryland officials resumed reporting coronavirus deaths Tuesday after a more than three week interruption amid an apparent cyberattack, adding more than 400 deaths to the state’s tally. At least 415 Marylanders died...
