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A commuter walks down stairs leading to a subway station before the start of the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 21, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
Team USA chiropractor sorry for COVID protocol-Nazi post

By Jake Seiner Jul. 21, 2021 05:55 AM EDT

Anti-lockdown chiropractor is running for Michigan governor

By David Eggert Apr. 28, 2021 05:55 PM EDT
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Kalamazoo chiropractor who opposed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stay-at-home orders when the coronavirus pandemic struck and helped with an...

Alex Willen brings out treats for his dogs at his home, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in San Diego. Willen was preparing to open a dog boarding business when the pandemic hit. Willen sensed the virus outbreak wouldn't end quickly, which meant dog owners wouldn't be traveling and many would keep working at home, eliminating the need for his services. He decided to restart a business he'd shelved in favor of boarding, dog treats. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
After losing a company to COVID, owners seek the next gig

By Joyce M. Rosenberg Feb. 21, 2021 10:00 AM EST

Michelle Elohim, a mother of four children, holds hammer to smash a side table in a rage room at Smash RX LLC Westlake Village, Calif., Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Pandemic fever got you down? Smash up stuff at the rage room

By John Rogers Feb. 11, 2021 06:06 PM EST

Dr. Alan Roth talks to reporters at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in New York, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2020. Dozens of clinics have cropped up around the U.S. to address a puzzling and troubling aspect of COVID-19 — the after-effects that can stubbornly afflict some people weeks or months after the infection itself has subsided. “We know this is real,” said Roth, who oversees the Jamaica Hospital clinic. He has been grappling with body pain, fatigue and “brain fog” characterized by occasional forgetfulness since his own relatively mild bout with COVID-19 in March. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
'We know this is real': New clinics aid virus 'long-haulers'

By Jennfer Peltz Jan. 19, 2021 10:48 AM EST

Meditation expert, author and speaker Mallika Chopra poses for a portrait on Dec. 21, 2020, in Santa Monica, Calif. Chopra is a “mindfulness consultant” on the new Apple TV+ animated children's series ”Stillwater." (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
With ‘Stillwater,’ Mallika Chopra brings mindfulness to kids

By Brooke Lefferts Dec. 29, 2020 10:10 AM EST

Johnson touts alternative COVID-19 treatments at hearing

Dec. 08, 2020 06:00 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of doctors at a U.S. Senate hearing chaired by Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, of Wisconsin, touted unproven alternative treatments to...

Lawsuit challenges mandatory mask rule from Gov. Whitmer

Oct. 21, 2020 12:31 PM EDT
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — A chiropractor in western Michigan is challenging the state's mask rule, saying Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's health department has no...

300 chiropractic office visitors urged to quarantine

Sep. 17, 2020 03:33 PM EDT
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Public health officials are urging nearly 300 people who visited a chiropractic office in southwestern Washington last week to...

This August 2020, photo provided by a Uighur under quarantine shows a bottle of unidentified traditional Chinese medicine in Urumqi, China. As parts of the Xinjiang region in China's far northwest enters the 45th day of a second grueling lockdown due to a coronavirus outbreak, the government there is coercing some residents into using traditional Chinese medicine despite a lack of rigorous clinical data proving it works. (AP Photo)
In China's Xinjiang, forced medication accompanies lockdown

By Dake Kang Aug. 31, 2020 12:05 AM EDT

Health professionals who volunteered to travel to Kuwait to treat of coronavirus patients walk in the rain after attending their farewell ceremony in Havana, Cuba, Thursday, June 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
The Latest: China orders pangolin protection amid pandemic

By The Associated Press Jun. 05, 2020 12:54 AM EDT

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives to address a press conference following a meeting with international economic and financial organisations at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday May 20, 2020 on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. (Odd Andersen/Pool via AP)
The Latest: Japan ending state of emergency in 3 prefectures

By The Associated Press May. 20, 2020 03:54 AM EDT

This image captured on Friday, May 1, 2020 shows part of a flagged Facebook post incorrectly claiming it shows Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden kissing a young girl’s cheek. The man in the photo is Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. (AP Photo)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By Arijeta Lajka, Amanda Seitz And Beatrice Dupuy May. 01, 2020 05:25 PM EDT

Locals have their bottles filled with a herbal extract believed to protect from COVID-19, in Antananarivo, Madagascar, Thursday, April 23, 2020, as school re-opened after being closed for a month due the coronavirus. Students have to drink the extract as schools resume classes where they now are seated one to a desk instead of two, for social distancing. (AP Photo/Alexander Joe)
Madagascar's president touts herbal drink against COVID-19

By Laetitia Bezain Apr. 28, 2020 05:23 AM EDT

In this Thursday, March 12, 2020, photo, a doctor screens a patient at a homeopathic college and hospital in New Delhi, India. With no approved drugs for COVID-19, some people are turning to alternative medicines, often with governments promoting them. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Some people turn to herbal medicine for virus without proof

By Aniruddha Ghosal And Yanan Wang Apr. 16, 2020 10:02 PM EDT

The 265th Infectious Control Georgia Army National Guard enters Canterbury Court, a senior living facility in Atlanta, to disinfect the building during the coronavirus pandemic, Friday, April 10, 2020. (Steve Schaefer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)
Georgia setting up 200-bed COVID site in convention center

Apr. 12, 2020 03:30 PM EDT

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