COVID-19

Chicago is expected to move into a “high” community level of COVID-19 as early as Thursday night, officials said, as the city braces for an estimated 1.4 million people to visit the city over Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start of the summer season.

There's been a steady increase in the number of people coming out of retirement. Demand for workers is high and Covid-19 health risks are reduced for many.

Social media posts show​ flames spewing from the funnel of the ship and black smoke billowing in the air.

The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease.

The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease. Because it combines properties of both omicron and delta, the nation's dominant variant in the middle of last year. A genetic trait that harkens back to the pandemic's past, known as a “delta mutation," appears to allow the virus "to escape pre-existing immunity from vaccination and prior infection, especially if you were infected in the omicron wave," said Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist in Texas.

The World Health Organization says the number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January.

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths are still falling globally after peaking in January, the World Health Organization said. COVID-19 cases rose in only two regions of the world: the Americas and the Western Pacific. WHO said it is tracking all omicron subvariants as “variants of concern.”

The moves come in the midst of a surge of COVID hospitalizations among the oldest Americans.

Between “Paxlovid rebound” and “Paxlovid mouth,” there’s plenty more to learn about the lifesaving antiviral COVID treatment.

Global health concerns loomed over the World Economic Forum once again this year, but business leaders say they are not worried about a new monkeypox outbreak.

The Fox News host also said that trying to get rid of the country's guns would start a civil war.

In between mass shootings killed and wounded people attending school, grocery shopping and simply living their lives, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19.

Research in U.S. veterans provides fresh evidence that long COVID-19 can happen even after breakthrough infections following vaccination.

"Supply was not enough to resolve the issues that these countries are having," Pfizer's CEO said at Davos.

Pfizer says it will provide nearly two dozen products at not-for-profit prices in some of the world’s poorest countries.

After a welcome lull in new COVID-19 cases in March following the winter omicron surge, cases are once again spiking, another uptick in the seemingly endless cycle of the pandemic’s virus spread.

Although monkeypox's recent spread has caused concern, its similarities to smallpox have given the public health world a head start on combating it.

The first results from an in-depth investigation of long COVID produced provocative results. Researchers don't understand the mechanism behind the lingering symptoms but found a link with anxiety.

Respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal pain were the most common lingering health issues reported.

Respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal pain were the most common lingering health issues reported.

After a reprieve of months, confirmed cases of COVID-19 are surging in the southern tip of South America

After a reprieve of months, confirmed cases of COVID-19 are surging in the southern tip of South America.

As the White House tries to demonstrate that the war in Ukraine hasn’t distracted America from pressing priorities in Asia, the Biden administration is once again looking to “the Quad.” The informal grouping brings together the US, Japan, India and Australia in an alliance of democracies with shared economic and security interests that span the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The point is to maintain a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” but the unstated priority is countering China’s growing power, which rankles the leadership in Beijing. The Quad has its critics, who question the group’s sometimes-ambiguous goals and ask how effective it can be given that some members are wary of provoking China. Still, it’s set to become more relevant as US-China tensions persist and Russia’s invasion of its neighbor sharpens Western security alliances.

China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19.

China is trying to navigate its biggest coronavirus outbreak without a tool it could have adopted many months ago, the kind of vaccines that have proven to offer the best protection against the worst outcomes from COVID-19. As early as the spring of 2020 a Chinese pharmaceutical company, Fosun Pharma, reached an agreement to distribute — and eventually manufacture — the mRNA vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech. It still has not been cleared in mainland China, despite being authorized for use by separate authorities in Hong Kong and Macao.

People with long COVID-19 may experience symptoms such as headaches and brain fog for an average of 15 months after first becoming ill.

Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 have some encouraging news.

A federal appeals court is being asked to reconsider its decision allowing the Biden administration to require that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The FDA said it will complete its review of Pfizer and Moderna's applications within days of each other.

Pfizer says preliminary data shows its three-dose vaccine regimen is 80% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in kids 6 months to 4 years old.

Pfizer says preliminary data shows its three-dose vaccine regimen is 80% effective in preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in kids 6 months to 4 years old.

Pfizer says three small doses of its COVID-19 vaccine protect kids under 5.

If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer.

The isolated East Asian country has only stated how many people have fevers daily, and has only identified a few of the cases as COVID-19 since admitting to an outbreak of the omicron variant.

Beijing extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing Monday as cases of COVID-19 rose in the Chinese capital. Numerous residential compounds in the city have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of citizens have been under varying degrees of lockdown for two months. Beijing on Monday reported an uptick in new cases to 99, up from a previous daily average of around 50.

There were 573 more billionaires in the world by March 2022 than in 2020, Oxfam said, estimating that 263 million could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022.

The U.S. may feel ready to move on from the pandemic, but I’m not.

The Biden administration officials have been warning for weeks that the country has spent nearly all the money approved for COVID-19 response.

North Korea said Saturday it found nearly 220,000 more people with feverish symptoms, even as leader Kim Jong Un claimed progress in slowing a largely undiagnosed spread of COVID-19 across his unvaccinated populace and hinted at easing virus restrictions to nurse a decaying economy. The outbreak has caused concern about serious tragedies in the poor, isolated country with one of the world’s worst health care systems and a high tolerance for civilian suffering. Experts say North Korea is almost certainly downplaying the true scale of the viral spread, including a strangely small death toll, to soften the political blow on Kim as he navigates the toughest moment in his decade of rule.

Failure to test migrants before these commercial flights risked exposing other migrants, government staff and the general public to COVID-19, according to the DHS inspector general.

The revised operating date for the Somerset site is June 2027 and is expected to cost up to £26bn.

The CDC published updated data Thursday on counties at "medium" and "high" levels of COVID-19.

Less than a third of children ages 5 to 11 years old are fully vaccinated and will become eligible for the third shot.

U.S. health advisers are urging a booster dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 5 to 11.

Selena Gomez hosted the first-ever Mental Health Youth Action Forum at the White House. The event encouraged businesses and peers to address mental health.

The number of coronavirus deaths globally dropped by about 21% in the past week while cases rose in most parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization.

The money was supposed to be COVID-19 assistance for low-income households in a small Japanese town, but police say it was mistakenly wired to a bank account of a resident who refused to return it and spent most of it on online gambling

As Americans commemorate a million deaths due to COVID-19, the partisan divide of who has gotten sick and died continues to grow, mostly due to disinformation about the vaccines.

Germany’s health minister is warning that the coronavirus pandemic is not over yet.

When COVID-19 first emerged, it was thought to be a respiratory disease primarily affecting the lungs. But as time went on and its list of symptoms reported grew longer, scientists learned that the disease can also impact other organs, including the heart.

President Joe Biden’s top health official has tested positive for COVID-19, the latest member of his Cabinet to be infected with the virus.

The 77-year-old guitar legend has been a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions. He has tested positive for COVID-19 and canceled two upcoming European gigs.

Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona has cleared health and safety protocols and returned to the team after missing four games with COVID-19. Francona will be back for Wednesday's game against Cincinnati along with bench coach DeMarlo Hale. Hitting analyst Justin Toole is also back with the Guardians, who have dealt with two separate outbreaks in recent weeks.

Some experts are worried the country now is seeing signs of a sixth wave, driven by an Omicron subvariant.

COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking.

COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions. “(But) prior increases of infections, in different waves of infection, have demonstrated that this travels across the country,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the CDC director, said at a White House briefing with reporters.

Some U.S. hospitals have started reserving use of the dye, used to make scans readable, for critically ill patients.

Dr. Ashish Jha will lead the briefing for the first time in his role as the White House Covid-19 response coordinator. White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky will provide updates as usual. Hospitalizations have also increased 18% over the past week with about 3,000 people admitted with Covid every day on average, according to CDC data. With infections and hospitalizations rising, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer booster doses for children ages 5 to 11 this week. The FDA could authorize Covid vaccines for children under age 5, the only group left in the U.S. not eligible, as soon as next month.

Eric Clapton, a critic of coronavirus vaccines and pandemic restrictions, has tested positive for COVID-19 and canceled two upcoming European gigs.

The country's anti-virus headquarters said 62 people have died and more than 1.7 million have fallen ill amid a rapid spread of fever since late April.

North Korea on Wednesday reported 232,880 new cases of fever and another six deaths as leader Kim Jong Un accused officials of “immaturity” and “slackness” in handling the escalating COVID-19 outbreak

The man accused of opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation in California was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder. (May 17)

A 23-year-old has become the caregiver for her 13-year-old brother after their parents died within days of each other.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech make the only COVID-19 vaccine available for children of any age in the U.S.

Global outbreak of avian influenza spawns dubious claims that the disease is aimed at driving up food prices.

The toll, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, doesn't include the deaths of those who couldn't get care for other diseases, or the many deaths feared unrecorded.

The head of the World Health Organization says China’s extreme approach to containing the coronavirus is unsustainable because of the highly infectious nature of the omicron variant.

U.S. regulators have authorized a COVID-19 vaccine booster for healthy children ages 5 to 11.

When the U.S. hit 1 million COVID-19 deaths, the news was driven by a government tally derived from death certificates.

The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has hit 1 million, less than 2 1/2 years into the outbreak.

North Korea says it has confirmed 15 more deaths and hundreds of thousands of additional patients with fevers amid the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak.

Health experts in South Africa say the country is experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants.

Cleveland Guardians first baseman Josh Naylor has been added to the team’s COVID-19 injured list, marking the first player to be sidelined by the team’s recent outbreak.

The new White House COVID-19 coordinator is issuing a dire warning.

Due to a COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai, China, where it’s mainly produced, it may impact the U.S.

President Joe Biden has appealed to world leaders for a renewed international commitment to attacking COVID-19 as he leads the U.S. in marking the “tragic milestone” of 1 million deaths in America.

The Cleveland Guardians are dealing with a COVID-19 outbreak that has sidelined manager Terry Francona and several of the team’s coaches, leading to the postponement of their series finale against the Chicago White Sox.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates says he has tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing mild symptoms.

The head of the World Health Organization has called on Pfizer to make its COVID-19 treatment more widely available in poorer countries.

A small number of COVID-19 patients are relapsing after taking Pfizer's antiviral pill, raising questions about the drug at the center of the U.S. response effort.

U.S. regulators are strictly limiting who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare but serious risk of blood clots.

The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the first two years of the pandemic.

The World Health Organization says the number of newly reported coronavirus cases and deaths continued to fall in the last week, continuing a global decline that first began in March.

Beijing has closed 60 subway stations as an additional measure against the spread of the coronavirus.

As mask mandates and vaccination rules kept falling across the U.S., infections from the latest COVID variants have been quietly taking hold in some places, sparking concern among public health officials but stirring a muted response from pretty much everyone else.

Many Chinese are marking a quiet May Day holiday this year as the government’s “zero-COVID” approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities.

China’s manufacturing activity fell to a six-month low in April as lockdowns continued in Shanghai and other manufacturing hubs in an attempt to stem COVID-19 outbreaks.

Several districts in Shanghai put up metal barriers last weekend as part of the city’s battle against a COVID-19 outbreak, in a move that drew protests and anger from some residents.

The Food and Drug Administration has set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest American children.

Black and Hispanic Americans remain far more cautious in their approach to the COVID-19 pandemic than white Americans.

COVID-19 led to major learning loss for children, but without interaction and an inability to have therapy, children with autism faced a much greater challenge.

Health experts say South Africa is seeing a rapid surge in COVID-19 cases driven by yet another version of the coronavirus.

Liberty University is facing another lawsuit regarding sexual assault and rape on campus Wednesday.

A British court has ruled that the government’s decision to discharge untested patients from hospitals into nursing homes early in the coronavirus pandemic was illegal.

Vice President Kamala Harris has tested positive for COVID-19, the White House says.

President Joe Biden’s administration is taking steps to expand availability of the life-saving COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid.

After two years at the front of the line for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, the U.S. could soon have to begin taking a number.

Early official results of Sunday's parliamentary election in Slovenia show that an opposition liberal party convincingly won, in a major defeat for populist Prime Minister Janez Jansa, who was accused of pushing the small European Union country to the right while in office.

Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19, in what city officials say was an initial round of testing.

Scientists say a U.K. patient with a severely weakened immune system had COVID-19 for almost a year and a half.