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Residents wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus line up to receive the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine at the Central Business District in Beijing, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
EXPLAINER: The US investigation into COVID-19 origins

By Christina Larson And Nomaan Merchant Jun. 09, 2021 12:15 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 19, 2009 file photo, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a sermon with a picture of the late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini in the background, during Friday prayers at the Tehran University campus in Tehran, Iran. Khamenei was among the first and most powerful world leaders to suggest the coronavirus could be a biological weapon created by the U.S. (Meisam Hosseini/Hayat News Agency via AP, File)
The superspreaders behind top COVID-19 conspiracy theories

By David Klepper, Farnoush Amiri And Beatrice Dupuy Feb. 15, 2021 12:10 AM EST

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2020, file photo, people walk in a market to shop ahead of the Diwalli festival in New Delhi, India. Scientists say it's still too early to predict the future of the coronavirus, but many doubt it will ever go away entirely. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)
Virus may never go away but could change into mild annoyance

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Christina Larson Feb. 14, 2021 08:12 AM EST

Michigan confirms 1st case of new COVID-19 variant

Jan. 16, 2021 03:53 PM EST
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Washtenaw County woman is the first person in Michigan diagnosed with the COVID-19 variant, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7., according to state...

A worker wearing a mask peeps out behind construction barrier with a notice depicting a bat and advocating for people not to eat wild animals at the airport in Kunming in southern China's Yunnan province on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. More than a year since the first known person was infected with the coronavirus, an Associated Press investigation has found the Chinese government is strictly controlling all research into its origins, clamping down on some while actively promoting theories that it could have come from outside China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
China clamps down in hidden hunt for coronavirus origins

By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng And Sam Mcneil Dec. 30, 2020 12:39 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, 90-year-old Margaret Keenan, the first patient in the U.K. to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, receives an injection by nurse May Parsons at University Hospital, Coventry, England. On Friday, Dec. 11, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting the first two recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine in Britain are “crisis actors.” Parsons first administered the vaccine to Keenan, then to “Bill” William Shakespeare. (Jacob King/Pool via AP)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Dec. 11, 2020 02:04 PM EST

Dr. Desiree Marshall, director of Autopsy and After Death Services for University of Washington Medicine, prepares samples from the preserved heart of a person who died of COVID-19 related complications, as she works in a negative-pressure laboratory, Tuesday, July 14, 2020, in Seattle. “Each autopsy has the chance to tell us something new,” she says. And those insights from the bodies of the dead could lead to more effective treatment of the living. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus

By Adam Geller And Malcolm Ritter Jul. 15, 2020 01:00 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020 file photo, Gao Fu, foreground left, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks to journalists after a news conference about a virus outbreak at the State Council Information Office in Beijing. On Dec. 31, 2019, Gao dispatched a team of experts to Wuhan. Also on Dec. 31, the World Health Organization first learned about the cases from an open-source platform that scouts for intelligence on outbreaks, emergencies chief Michael Ryan has said. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
China delayed releasing coronavirus info, frustrating WHO

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2020 12:02 AM EDT

Editorial Roundup: South Carolina

By The Associated Press Apr. 29, 2020 03:31 PM EDT
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers: ___ April 28 The Index-Journal on being safe...

In this April 2, 2020, photo, Choi Jung Hun, a former North Korean doctor who came to South Korea in 2012, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Seoul, South Korea. North Korea says it has zero coronavirus infections, but experts doubt it and say it’s likely the virus has already spread in the country. Choi and other defectors told that workers didn’t have test kits when they dealt with past outbreaks and weren’t even asked to confirm or submit cases to the central government. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
North Korean defectors, experts question zero virus claim

By Hyung-Jin Kim Apr. 19, 2020 09:11 PM EDT