Concerns among medically vulnerable people are growing as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to drop its long-standing recommendation that those with covid isolate for five days.
Americans who test positive for the coronavirus no longer need to routinely stay home from work and school for five days under new guidance planned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Commissions were created and reports written after 9/11 and the Iraq War, Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis said, but there’s been no such commission for COVID-19 despite it also being a world-shaking event. He said Florida’s grand jury is serving that function for the country.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is opening its first regional office in a developed nation, with the post in Japan set to enhance its work with allies on disease monitoring amid rising geopolitical tensions with China.
The Library of Congress and StoryCorps have created a portal where people can record COVID stories.
There’s no question a winter coronavirus wave is washing over the United States. How big of a surge is a far murkier question. The dramatic scale-back of coronavirus surveillance data has made it harder to grasp the magnitude of covid-19 surges.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is urging people to stop getting Pfizer’s and Moderna’s mRNA COVID vaccines over safety concerns that the shots could possibly deliver DNA contaminants into human cells.
California’s hospitals are getting busier with more COVID-19 and flu patients, some of whom are suffering from both viruses at the same time.
As pundits and politicos spar over whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign will factor into the outcome of the 2024 election, one thing is clear: Kennedy’s political following is built on a movement that seeks to legitimize conspiracy theories.
As many as 7% of Americans report having suffered from a slew of lingering symptoms after enduring COVID.
Does it seem like a lot of people you know are sick? You’re not alone. Respiratory illness season is in full swing in California and across much of the nation.
School systems across the country are facing a financial cliff, whereby COVID-19 pandemic funds must be committed by September 2024 and spent by January 2025, raising questions on the sustainability and impact of new, federally funded investments.
Tennessee lawmakers dropped all vaccine requirements for home-schooled children. Iowa Republicans passed a bill eliminating the requirement that schools educate students about the HPV vaccine. And the Florida legislature passed a law preemptively barring school districts from requiring coronavirus vaccines
The World Health Organization on Tuesday declared coronavirus subvariant JN.1 a variant of interest “due to its rapidly increasing spread.”
Governments across Southeast Asia are bringing back measures to limit a rapid resurgence of respiratory infections such as COVID-19, including installing temperature scanners at airports and encouraging people to wear masks again.
The 2023 decline has erased about $140 billion in market value amid skepticism that the company will be successful in its transition out of the pandemic as demand for shots and treatments for Covid-19 wanes.
Respiratory viruses are rebounding in the United States on the precipice of the end-of-year holidays, with emergency room visits for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus collectively reaching their highest levels since February.
The U.S. military hasn’t been in a rush to offer updated COVID-19 vaccines to service members and their families overseas, nearly three months after the shots became available stateside.
Last week, local labs and medical providers in San Diego County reported 942 coronavirus, 425 flu and 297 respiratory syncytial virus cases to the public health department. Last year, the numbers were eye-poppingly higher: 3,441 coronavirus, 2,386 flu, 401 RSV, during the same week.