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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.

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Moderna CEO and Director Stephane Bancel arrives to testify to the Senate HELP Committee on the price of COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Moderna CEO defends COVID vaccine price hike, citing pivot to endemic phase

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A few fans watch Virginia play St. Francis during an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Charlottesville, Va. (Andrew Shurtleff/The Daily Progress via AP) ** FILE **

St. Francis College in Brooklyn to shut down Division I athletic program after 2023 season

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
A worker in protective gear collects a sample from a resident at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Nov. 29, 2022. China's sudden reopening after two years holding to a "zero-COVID" strategy left older people vulnerable and hospitals and pharmacies unprepared during the season when the virus spreads most easily, leading to many avoidable deaths, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Ignoring experts, China's sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

By Dake Kang - Associated Press
A security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the origin of the virus tormenting the world remains shrouded in mystery. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Biden signs bill ordering declassification of intelligence on COVID, Wuhan lab

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during opening statements during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington. Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name, and the subject of partisan attacks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will depart the federal government in December after more than 5 decades of service. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

D.C. man rebukes Fauci's COVID-19 vaccine pitch on video: 'You all attack people with fear'

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Child and his teddy bear both in protective medical masks sit on windowsill, looking out a window. Photo credit: Dragana Gordic via Shutterstock

Home poisoning deaths surged among toddlers during COVID-19 pandemic, safety commission reports

By Sean Salai - 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)

Vaccine makers pick Senate fight over soaring prices; fall boosters cost up to $130

By Tom Howell Jr. and Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Matt Taibbi, left, with Michael Shellenberger, testifies before House Select Subcommittee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Twitter Files: Vast censor project unleashed against politically incorrect COVID-19 speech

By Joseph Clark - 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)

Null and void, but still causing headaches: Pentagon's legal woes over COVID vaccine mandate persist

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times
FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press
A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus on Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims, according to a report released Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

Maternal deaths surged in 2021, CDC says

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
A nurse processes COVID-19 rapid antigen tests at a testing site in Long Beach, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Lawmakers still ponder COVID-19 origins despite classified briefing on lab-leak theory

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times
A disabled man is sitting in a wheelchair. He holds his hands on the wheel. Nearby are his colleagues. File photo credit: VGstockstudio via Shutterstock

Study: Disabled people had greater job losses, financial struggles during pandemic

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
A pregnant and intubated COVID-19 patient lies in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit in a hospital in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during pregnancy or shortly after childbirth, according to a final tally released Thursday, March 16, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. COVID-19 can be particularly dangerous to pregnant women, and experts believe it was the main reason for the 2021 spike. (AP Photo/Kyle Green)

U.S. pregnancy deaths dropped in 2022, after COVID spike

By Mike Stobbe - Associated Press
Vanderbilt playground in Brooklyn's Prospect Park is closed on Thursday, April 2, 2020, in New York. On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered all of New York city's playgrounds shut to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The governor followed calls from public-health experts and many City Council members to shut the playgrounds as families gathered there. But the closures presented a new challenge for families weathering a lockdown that also closed schools. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) **FILE**

Domestic violence in COVID lockdowns wrecked women's mental health: Study

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
Customers eat in the dining area upstairs, at the Good Stuff Eatery in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times ) ** FILE **

Not enough cooks in the kitchen; D.C. restaurants face uphill battle in staffing

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
An airliner worker asks travelers to declare their health information after checking in at the international flight check-in counter at the Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Aug. 24, 2022. China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday, March 15, 2023, after a three-year halt during the pandemic as it sought to boost its tourism and economy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China to reopen to tourists, resume all visas Wednesday

By Zen Soo - Associated Press
A view of the P4 lab inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology is seen after a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Feb. 3, 2021. The House voted unanimously Friday, March 10, 2023, to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The order to declassify focused on intelligence related to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, citing “potential links” between the research that was done there and the outbreak of COVID-19, which the WHO declared a pandemic in March 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Congress shows seismic shift on Wuhan lab likely causing the pandemic

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Colleen Shogan, nominee to be archivist of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration about her social media postings, during the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee full committee hearing on Shogan's nomination on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Sen. Josh Hawley warns China's Xi 'time is up' after COVID origins bill clears Congress

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
Dr. Joseph Ladapo speaks with reporters after the Florida Senate confirmed his appointment as the state's surgeon general on Feb. 23, 2022, in Tallahassee, Fla. U.S. health agencies have sent a letter to Florida's surgeon general, warning him that his claims about COVID-19 risks are harmful to the public. The letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was sent to Ladapo on Friday, March 10, 2023.(AP Photo/Brendan Farrington, File)

U.S. agencies debunk Florida surgeon general's vaccine claims

Associated Press
A health worker administers a dose of COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Reading, Pa. on Sept. 14, 2021. On Friday, March 10, 2023, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming the U.S. military has recorded a 500% increase in new HIV infections since COVID-19 vaccines were introduced. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Congress' pandemic probe asks whether Biden officials cut corners to fast-track vaccine approvals

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
A worker in protectively overalls and carrying disinfecting equipment walks outside the Wuhan Central Hospital, China on Feb. 6, 2021. Experts drafted by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic say further research is needed to determine how COVID-19 first began. They say they need a more detailed analysis of the possibility it was a laboratory accident. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

House unanimously backs bill to declassify intel on COVID-19 origins, Wuhan lab

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Cots fill Tecnopolis Park in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, April 17, 2020. Authorities set up the field hospital in this space that normally hosts museum exhibits, fairs and other attractions, to take in patients with mild COVID-19 symptoms if necessary. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

By Carla K. Johnson - Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks on the cancer moonshot initiative at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Sept. 12, 2022, in Boston. Biden is requesting more than $2.8 billion in the federal budget proposal he's sending to Congress to help advance his cancer-fighting goals. That's according to White House officials, who shared details with The Associated Press before Biden unveils the proposal Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

House tees up COVID bill forcing Biden to declassify intel about virus' origins

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A shopper walks past mannequins donning face masks in Los Angeles, on Dec. 7, 2020. California's COVID-19 emergency declaration ends on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. Public health experts say the pandemic has not ended, but the virus is much more manageable with the availability of vaccines and other treatments. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Gallup: Small majority say pandemic still not over

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md., on Aug. 2, 2018. The FDA has approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Nano silver diet supplement recalled over false claims about treating COVID-19

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times
In this Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, file photo, Shi Zhengli works with other researchers in a lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. (Chinatopix via AP) ** FILE **

Majority of Americans believe COVID-19 came from Chinese lab: Poll

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Dr. Robert Redfield, left, former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, confers with Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., before the start of a hearing by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Former CDC director says COVID-19 'more likely' came from Chinese lab leak

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) ** FILE **

Fauci to loom large over House Oversight's COVID-19 origins hearing

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times
Novak Djokovic looks as his documents after landing in Belgrade, Serbia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. Djokovic arrived in the Serbian capital following his deportation from Australia on Sunday after losing a bid to stay in the country to defend his Australian Open title despite not being vaccinated against COVID-19.(AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

DeSantis will try to bring tennis star Djokovic to Miami Open via boat to skirt Biden's vaccine rule

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

This image released by PBS shows Dr. Anthony Fauci in a scene from the documentary “American Masters: Dr. Tony Fauci,” premiering nationwide on PBS, Tuesday, March 21. (Topspin Content/Room 608/American Masters Pictures/PBS via AP)

Fauci offers to debate 'anybody' -- so here's his invitation

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022, in Washington. House Republicans kicked off an investigation Monday, Feb. 13, 2023, into the origins of COVID-19 by issuing a series of letters to current and former Biden administration officials for documents and testimony, including Fauci who until December served as Biden’s chief medical adviser. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Dr. Fauci and the art of COVID cover-up

Illustration on the need to investigate the source of COVID-19 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

COVID-19 'conspiracy theories' turned out to be true

Actor Woody Harrelson attends the premiere of Focus Features' "Champions" at AMC Lincoln Square on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, in New York. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP)

Woody Harrelson proves media has learned nothing about COVID-19 in last three years

COVID-19 government lies about masks and vaccines illustration by Alexander Hunter / The Washington Times

Vaccines don't work, masks don't work: Everything government told us about COVID-19 was wrong

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, speaks during a news conference at WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Globalists push for 'international health regulations' by 2024

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19, June 16, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

CDC goes ballistic on eyedrops -- but not on COVID shots?

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, after returning from New York. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden's bogus 'end' of COVID emergency health orders

A tourist is reflected in a window of the closed building housing the Liberty Bell, Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018, in Philadelphia. The building was closed due to the partial government shutdown. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) ** FILE **

Patrick Henry wouldn't have worn a face mask

Illustration on continued government overreach and COVID-19 by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Authoritarian powers granted during COVID-19 pandemic difficult to claw back

President Joe Biden removes his face mask as he arrives to speak about the economy during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, July 30, slightly more than three days after he was cleared to exit coronavirus isolation, the White House said, in a rare case of “rebound” following treatment with an anti-viral drug. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Biden, Democrats want face masks forever

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