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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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In this Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018 photo, Serena Esplin, a labor and delivery nurse, wears the Monica Novii, a wireless heart rate and contraction monitor, at East Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The wireless system allows tracking of the heart rate of both the mother and baby as well as uterine contractions in a small package that also allows the mother to be more mobile than with other wired systems. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP)

Study: Pregnancy complications rose during COVID as women missed visits

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
FILE - A sign asks those getting vaccinated to keep 6 feet apart during the vaccination event, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, Calif. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)

CDC loosens virus guidance to deemphasize social distancing, routine screening of healthy people

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un speaks during a "maximum emergency anti-epidemic campaign meeting" in Pyongyang, North Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022. Kim has declared victory over COVID-19 and ordered an easing of preventive measures. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea claims disputed victory over COVID-19, blames Seoul

By Kim Tong-Hyung - Associated Press
Tameiki Lee, a Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

Gallup: COVID optimism, faith in vaccines waning

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
In this file photo, a teacher aligns desk in his classroom at Pleasant Run Elementary School, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in Indianapolis. With just a few weeks before the return to class for the fall semester, America's public schools are struggling with a wave of departures by COVID-fatigued teachers. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) **FILE**

Report: School districts to spend $90 billion in federal grants on COVID reopening

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
Workers in PPE overalls guard an entrance to a community under lock down on Thursday, March 17, 2022, in Beijing. A fast-spreading variant known as "stealth omicron" is testing China's zero-tolerance strategy, which had kept the virus at bay since the deadly initial outbreak in the city of Wuhan in early 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China's Wuhan institute studied deadly bioterrorism agent, Congress told

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden coughs as he speaks before signing the "CHIPS and Science Act of 2022" during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden battles persistent coughing fits despite testing negative for COVID-19

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
This May 8, 2008, photo shows blank checks on an idle press at the Philadelphia Regional Financial Center, which disburses payments on behalf of federal agencies in Philadelphia. Officials at the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service said Friday, March 12, 2021, that processing the new round of stimulus payments has already begun, with the aim of having the first payments start showing up in bank accounts this weekend. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) **FILE**

Insiders use ID access to steal from Americans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. Lee said Monday that the length of mandatory hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals will be reduced to three days from a week. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong cuts COVID hotel quarantine to 3 days for arrivals

By Zen Soo - Associated Press
President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small business relief programs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the White House in Washington. Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Saturday morning but will continue to isolate until a second negative test, his doctor said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)

Biden tests negative for COVID-19, will remain in isolation pending second test

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small business relief programs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

White House says Biden will not travel until COVID test is negative

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks before signing two bills aimed at combating fraud in the COVID-19 small business relief programs Friday, Aug. 5, 2022, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden's cough is almost gone, but COVID is not, doctor says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks about the economy on the White House complex in Washington, July 28, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Biden feels good but he is still positive for the virus: Doctor

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
In this May 29, 2020, file photo, then-Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine meets with the media at the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) headquarters in Harrisburg, Pa. Now serving as the assistant secretary for health for the Department of Health and Human Services, Dr. Levine is scheduled to be Yale’s commencement speaker on May 23, 2022. (Joe Hermitt/The Patriot-News via AP, File) **FILE**

HHS' Rachel Levine: Long COVID will affect U.S. for 'years to come'

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden attends an event to support legislation that would encourage domestic manufacturing and strengthen supply chains for computer chips in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, March 9, 2022, in Washington. Just hours before Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened to block a bill to revive the U.S. computer chip sector, senior Biden aides met on a Thursday morning to plan for that exact scenario. They decided to keep pushing and working bipartisan relationships with legislators developed over 18 months, leading to the passage of the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden still positive for coronavirus but able to work out: doctor

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Nora Burlingame, 3, is given a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, at a University of Washington Medical Center clinic in Seattle. COVID-19 shots for children between six months and five years of age were given federal authorization over the weekend. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

COVID shots for tots flop despite Biden's push

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times
A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at Lurie Children's hospital, Nov. 5, 2021, in Chicago. Some people getting Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines should consider waiting up to eight weeks between the first and second doses, instead of the three or four weeks previously recommended, U.S. health officials said.,Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Company to pay millions to employees over denying religious exemptions to COVID-19 shots

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden speaks from the Blue Room Balcony of the White House Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, in Washington, as he announces that a U.S. airstrike killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan. (Jim Watson/Pool via AP)

Biden is still positive for COVID, doctor says

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
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 stuck in White House until midweek due to recurring positive tests

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden listens during a meeting with CEOs in the South Court Auditorium on the White House complex in Washington, Thursday, July 28, 2022. President Joe 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 still positive for virus as he deals with antiviral drug 'rebound': Doctor

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, left, Tucker Carlson, center, and former President Donald Trump watch golfers on the 16th tee during the final round of the Bedminster Invitational LIV Golf tournament in Bedminster, N.J., Sunday, July 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Trump uses Biden's COVID-19 rebound to reiterate complaints about 2020 election

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
A man takes part in a demonstration against the country's coronavirus restrictions in Vienna, Austria, Nov. 20, 2021. Austria's parliament is due to vote Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, on plans to introduce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the adult population, the first of its kind in Europe. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)

Austrian doctor dies by suicide after months of death threats over public support of COVID vaccine

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
The White House is seen Saturday, July 30, 2022, in Washington. President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 again Saturday, 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/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden tests positive for COVID again Sunday, remains in 'strict isolation'

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
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 tests positive for COVID-19 -- again.

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times
In this file photo, an activist holds a surgical mask during a protest of a visit by first lady Jill Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, at a vaccine clinic at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, in the Harlem neighborhood of New York, June 6, 2021. A new study published July 29, 2022, in JAMA Open Network finds a sharp rise in support among wealthy, educated, politically independent and science-loving Americans for harassing and threatening public health officials over the lockdown of businesses during COVID-19. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File) **FILE**

Support up among wealthy, well-educated Americans for harassing health officials over lockdowns

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times
Tameiki Lee, a Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center nurse, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, July 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) **FILE**

HHS secures millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses ahead of a fall booster campaign

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times
Commuters with and without masks travel on a BART train in San Francisco, Calif, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. The San Francisco Bay Area's transit system is again requiring masks for travelers and employees, the agency announced Thursday, July 28, 2022. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

Bay Area transit agency again requires masking

Associated Press
A commuter sits in a Los Angeles Metro train in Los Angeles, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. Los Angeles County, the nation's largest by population, is facing a return to a broad indoor mask mandate if current trends in hospital admissions continue, health director Barbara Ferrer told county supervisors Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) **FILE**

Some L.A. County municipalities say they will ignore looming new mask mandates

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times
Sunlight shines on the U.S. Capitol building in Washington in this file photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Fertility rates down, death rates up as pandemic upends country's demographics

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
President Joe Biden takes his mask off after recovering from COVID-19 to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden uses post-COVID remarks to highlight progress in fighting disease

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Recent Commentary Columns

President Joe Biden speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022, during a reception to celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden's craven fear-mongering over COVID-19 is all about money

Bill Gates discusses his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic" at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Bill Gates has a mad scientist vision for global health control

Bill Gates discusses his book "How to Prevent the Next Pandemic" at the 92nd Street Y on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) ** FILE **

Bill Gates tees up COVID boosters forever

Steven Portnoy, CBS News White House correspondent and WHCA president, reacts while seated alongside President Joe Biden at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, Saturday, April 30, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

COVID cases climb -- yawn!

Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Jan. 11, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Americans must demand pre-pandemic normalcy

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Fauci finally exposed as the hypocrite he truly is

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House complex in Washington, April 13, 2022. Harris tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, the White House announced. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Kamala Harris just the latest COVID-19 vaccine failure

President Joe Biden appears with first lady Jill Biden and the Easter Bunny on the Blue Room balcony at the White House, Monday, April 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden and the bunnymen

Travelers queue up in long lines to pass through the south security checkpoint in Denver International Airport, Wednesday morning, June 16, 2021, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Democrats' dance with face mask stupid

Illustration on the effects of COVID-19 lockdowns by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Never forget, never repeat the draconian COVID-19 lockdown policies

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