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What’s the impact on digital fraud as countries ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions? We recently analyzed billions of transactions in our flagship identity proofing, risk-based authentication and fraud analytics solution suite — TransUnion TruValidate™ — and found the rate of suspected digital fraud attempts across industries rose 16.5% globally when comparing Q2 2020 and Q2 2021.1 In the US,…

Covid World Vaccination Tracker More than 5.55 billion people worldwide have received a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, equal to about 72.3 percent of the world population. This map shows the stark gap between vaccination programs in different countries.

getty March 2021 marked the one-year anniversary of the first Covid-19 lockdowns. The world was, to put it mildly, tired. People needed hope, and so, they looked back into history, with many storie…

Christina Animashaun/Vox Immune responses to viruses like SARS-CoV-2 may affect mental health, and vice versa. Doctors are uncovering exactly how. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, one of the biggest…

Sick Woman Lying In Bed With Tissues (Getty Images/Obradovic) SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is devastating precisely because it can worm its way into so many different organs and systems…

For more than a year now, the original COVID-19 vaccines have held up remarkably well — even miraculously so — against a Greek alphabet of new variants: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta. But now experts s…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said boosting vaccination rates will not be enough to contain soaring coronavirus infections across the country, Bloomberg reported, calling for tough action as coun…

We know that spending hour after hour sitting down isn’t good for us, but just how much exercise is needed to counteract the negative health impact of a day at a desk? A 2020 study suggests a…

The Delta version has muted the progress of the US economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, with consumers delaying some holiday spending and businesses returning to normal operations, accordi…

The contagious nature of the Delta variant has meant breakthrough COVID cases are on the rise. Seven people tell us what it was like to have one. In case you hadn’t already heard, COVID-19 numbers …

They were gold miners in French Guiana, revelers in Cape Cod, and Indian health-care workers. Even though they inhabit worlds apart, they ended up having two things in common. All were vaccinated a…

Two mothers who gave birth in Miami, Florida, passed along the COVID-19 infection to their newborns through the placenta, researchers at the University of Miami Health System and the University of …

Credit: Joy Ho for NPR I wanted to report this story last month, but I was too sick with COVID. My kid gave it to me. My colleagues on the health reporting team would have tackled the story, but th…

Bree Linville; blackred/ GeoffBlack/ smartstock/ petrovv/ kokouu/ Hispanolistic/ Getty Images Inside a cramped, windowless room at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., a special team o…

In some ways, the COVID pandemic has felt like the world’s longest dodgeball game: Only a few players remain untouched by the virus that has already killed over 1 million people in the US alone and…

A new, fast-spreading Covid-19 variant dubbed omicron has sent bitcoin, cryptocurrency and traditional markets into meltdown this week, with investors being warned to “be on guard.” The…

SHANGHAI — China’s economic growth continued to decelerate in the third quarter, as gross domestic product came in at 4.9%, softened by the country’s zero-tolerance COVID measures…

With the Covid-19 vaccine rollout steadily gathering steam, and an overwhelming desire to get back to business, companies face a difficult choice: should they force employees to get vaccinated? And…

In the summer of 2020, as the pandemic raged, infecting more than 200,000 people a day across the globe, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and BioNTech CEO Uğur Şahin boarded an executive jet en route to th…

U.S health officials are expected to recommend Covid-19 vaccine booster doses for Americans across all eligible age groups eight months after they received their second vaccine dose, to ensure last…

In this week’s edition of the Covid Q&A, we look at what the cold weather might bring for the virus. In hopes of making this very confusing time just a little less so, each week Bloomberg…