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With many folks using home tests, it takes a patchwork of metrics to get a full picture of COVID. But regardless of what the data shows at a granular level, the health guidance is the same — stay home if you're sick, cover your cough and get vaccinated.
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Under Senate Bill 7, which now heads Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, private employers in Texas can’t require workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Any found in violation of the ban would be fined $50,000.
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The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.
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Some studies have shown that half of people with long COVID develop symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome or ME/CFS.
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Donna Looper wanted to help her then 8-year-old son Ben conceptualize the toll COVID-19 was taking on their community. The two folded 248 origami butterflies to represent individuals who lost their lives to COVID-19 in Georgetown.
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According to Dr. Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine, there are seven respiratory viruses infecting people in large numbers this season.
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People are gathering indoors for the holidays, and there's been an uptick in COVID-19 cases. The federal government says you should test often to try to prevent the spread of the virus.
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The CDC is advising people to practice indoor masking in nearly a tenth of U.S. counties, as three highly contagious respiratory viruses sweep the country.
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For some local relief programs, a lack of staffing, political support and effective community outreach got in the way of spending federal funds to prevent evictions, a new report found. More than $30 million went unspent and had to be returned.
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Step aside, BA.5. The new variants BQ.1 and BQ.1.1, appear to be among the most adept yet at evading immunity from previous infection and vaccination.
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Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds.
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Here we go again. The virus is starting to surge in many European countries and there are early signs a wave may be starting in the U.S. too.