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Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic updates

The latest news and commentary on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

NOTE: As the world adjusts to COVID-19, research continues on its origins, the effectiveness of masks, vaccines and boosters, new variants, workplace policies, politics and much more. The Washington Times is committed to accuracy in our reporting of the coronavirus. We continue to explore how COVID-19 affects us here in the United States and around the world. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to update its guidance on coronavirus (available here) with information geared toward parents, employers, healthcare professionals and consumers. They also offer a COVID data tracker here where you can explore vaccination trends, levels of community spread and other valuable tools for making healthy choices for you and your family.

For more detailed information on total cases, total deaths, global maps and dashboards, visit the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center here.

Click on the maps below for more information on coronavirus cases by state and vaccinations by county, and for a fuller picture of COVID-19, scroll down for the most recent reporting from The Washington Times.

Recent Stories

Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., listens to testimony during a Senate Indian Affairs Committee about the status of the descendants of enslaved people formerly held by the Muscogee (Creek), Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole and Cherokee Nations, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

'We need the truth': Lankford to block Pentagon nominees over COVID-19 vaccine rules

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
In this file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies at a Senate committee hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On March 23, 2022, Dr. Walensky said her agency is tracking the BA.2 omicron subvariant that caused spikes overseas but the strain, but that it does not appear to make infected persons any sicker and is not straining hospital capacity. (Shawn Thew/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

CDC's call for people to mask up for flu, RSV provokes backlash due to thin evidence it works

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, on Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has returned more than $2.3 billion of fraudulently obtained funds by working with financial partners and states to reverse transactions. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

China-backed hackers stole millions in COVID relief funds, Secret Service says

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said he wants to keep the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate in place to protect the health of the troops, as Republican governors and lawmakers press to rescind it. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

End of the road? Pentagon's COVID vaccine mandate in danger as opposition mounts

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
Travelers wear masks inside Union Station Thursday, July 28, 2022, in Los Angeles. Health officials in Los Angeles County are debating a decision to reinstate an indoor mask mandate Thursday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

CDC says mask-wearing still a good idea to prevent trifecta of viruses

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

White House opposes Republican push to lift Pentagon vaccine mandate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Deborah Sampson, left, a nurse at a University of Washington Medical Center clinic in Seattle, gives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot to a 20-month-old child, June 21, 2022, in Seattle. Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5. The youngest tots already are supposed to get three extra-small doses of the original vaccine as their primary series. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said Monday, Dec. 5, 2022 that if the Food and Drug Administration agrees, the updated vaccine would be used for the third shot. The FDA already has cleared COVID-19 vaccines tweaked to better target omicron as boosters for everyone 5 and older. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, file)

Pfizer asks FDA to clear updated COVID shot for kids under 5

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press
A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. As Americans head into the late 2022 holiday season, a rapidly intensifying flu season is straining hospitals already overburdened with patients sick from other respiratory infections. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

U.S. sees post-Thanksgiving rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A woman has her routine COVID-19 throat swab at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. China on Sunday reported two additional deaths from COVID-19 as some cities move cautiously to ease anti-pandemic restrictions amid increasingly vocal public frustration over the measures. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China eases controls, gives no sign when 'zero COVID' ends

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press
Residents go about their life with some shops re-opening for business as restrictions are eased in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2022. Chinese authorities on Saturday announced a further easing of COVID-19 curbs with major cities such as Shenzhen and Beijing no longer requiring negative tests to take public transport. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China reports 2 new COVID deaths as some restrictions eased

By Zen Soo - Associated Press
A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Third lawsuit filed against California law that restricts doctors' COVID advice to patients

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
Residents wearing masks cross an intersection in Beijing, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. More cities eased restrictions, allowing shopping malls, supermarkets and other businesses to reopen following protests last weekend in Shanghai and other areas in which some crowds called for President Xi Jinping to resign. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

WHO pleased to see China ease harsh zero COVID policies

Associated Press
Exile Tibetan activists hold blank white papers symbolizing government censorship in China, while shouting anti-China slogans during a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 2, 2022. The protest was in solidarity with the on-going "White Paper" protests against Chinese government's continued zero-COVID policies. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Tibetans in India support 'zero COVID' protesters in China

By Bhumika Saraswati - Associated Press
In this Feb. 9, 2021, photo provided by the Department of Defense, Hickam 15th Medical Group hosts the first COVID-19 mass vaccination on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. By the thousands, U.S. service members are refusing or putting off the COVID-19 vaccine, as frustrated commanders scramble to knock down internet rumors and find the right pitch that will convince troops to take the shot. Some Army units are seeing as few as a third agree to the vaccine, others are higher. (U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Anthony Nelson Jr./Department of Defense via AP) ** FILE **

Pentagon won't yield on ending COVID vaccine mandate for troops, even if Congress threatens budget

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times
Nurse gives an injection with the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19 disease to an employee at the Bethel Hospital in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. A total of 66 employees will be vaccinated at the hospital with the first the Biontech/Pfizer vaccine. (Kay Nietfeld/dpa via AP)

German nurse avoids jail after injecting thousands with saltwater shot instead COVID vaccine

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
Maria Assisi holds her daughter Mia, 4 as Registered Nurse Margie Rodriguez administers the first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months through 5 years old on Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at Montefiore Medical Group in the Bronx borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer) **FILE**

Lawmakers want to bar CDC from recommending COVID vaccines to minors without proof of efficacy

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
In this Feb. 27, 2013, photo illustration, hands type on a computer keyboard in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Online classes amid pandemic linked to higher psychological distress in college students

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
In this Aug. 14, 2018, photo, a doctor looks at PET brain scans in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Stanford researchers find teenagers' brains seemed to age faster during COVID-19 restrictions

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A child peeps into a shuttered shopping mall as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. More cities eased anti-virus restrictions as Chinese police tried to head off protests Thursday while the ruling Communist Party prepared for the high-profile funeral of the late leader Jiang Zemin. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Protests in China put pressure on state to act, Western COVID vaccines proposed

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
A child wearing a face mask and riding on a scooter passes by a worker in protective suit on his way to collect COVID samples from the lockdown residents in Beijing, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. More cities eased anti-virus restrictions as Chinese police tried to head off protests Thursday while the ruling Communist Party prepared for the high-profile funeral of the late leader Jiang Zemin. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians

Associated Press
A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic at the Keystone First Wellness Center in Chester, Pa., Dec. 15, 2021. A federal appeals court is being asked Monday, May 23, 2022, to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Senate Republicans threaten to derail crucial defense policy bill over Biden's vaccine mandate

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
A help wanted sign is displayed in a storefront, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2022, in Bedford, N.Y. The U.S. job market remains healthy, Thursday, Nov. 17, as fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, despite the Federal Reserve’s rapid interest rate hikes this year intended to bring down inflation and tighten the labor market. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

19,000 millionaires collected unemployment during the pandemic

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Web pages used to show information for collecting unemployment insurance in Virginia, right, and reporting fraud and identity theft in Pennsylvania, are displayed on the respective state web pages, on Feb. 26, 2021, in Zelienople, Pa. The Secret Service said it has seized more than $1.2 billion while investigating unemployment insurance and loan fraud and has returned more than $2.3 billion of fraudulently obtained funds by working with financial partners and states to reverse transactions. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) **FILE**

New York City workers busted for COVID fraud

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks alongside White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Ashish Jha during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans gear up to investigate NIH about COVID-19 origins

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times
A Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse loads a syringe with a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. Moderna recently announced early evidence that its updated booster induced BQ.1.1-neutralizing antibodies. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

New Zealand seeks guardianship of baby whose parents won't allow vaccinated blood for surgery

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
Thomas Homan, former acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, testifies during a House Oversight subcommittee hearing into the Trump administration's decision to stop considering requests from immigrants seeking to remain in the country for medical treatment and other hardships, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

Whistleblower says Border Patrol released convicted murderer because he had COVID

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
A man places a mask over the eyes of the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard as close to 100 students and faculty demonstrated against strict anti-virus measures in China, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Protests in China, which were the largest and most wide spread in the nation in decades, included calls for Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to step down. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Harvard students show solidarity with Chinese protesters

By Mark Pratt - Associated Press
In this Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014 photo, handguns sit in a glass display case at Metro Shooting Supplies, in Bridgeton, Mo. St. Louis County gun dealers are reporting a surge in sales and an increase in first-time buyers as fearful residents await a grand jury decision in Michael Brown’s police shooting death. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) **FILE**

Gun deaths surged at record pace during pandemic, study finds

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull) ** FILE **

Twitter stops enforcing COVID-19 misinformation policy

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times
Fans cheer before the World Cup group A soccer match between the Netherlands and Qatar, at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor , Qatar, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

China scrubs maskless crowds from World Cup broadcasts

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

Workers in protective suits stand guard at a barricade as others prepare for their duties in a locked down neighborhood as part of COVID-19 controls in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. China is expanding lockdowns, including in a central city where factory workers clashed this week with police, as its number of COVID-19 cases hit a daily record. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China's COVID-19 lockdowns are America's warning

Democrats and COVID-19 pandemic illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

For Democrats, the COVID-19 pandemic will never end

President Joe Biden receives his COVID-19 booster from a member of the White House medical unit during an event in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden cracks the COVID-19 shot whip in tyrannical call for annual jabs

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