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Al Bello/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Amid pushback from some public health officials on new Centers for Disease Control guidance for individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19, which does not require a negative test [Read More…]

Xesai/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With the explosion of coronavirus cases in the U.S., fueled in part by the highly contagious omicron variant, Americans are once again facing a wave of sickness and the anxiety [Read More…]

ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/ANP/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Hundreds to thousands of calls come in to the Disability Information and Access Line (DIAL) each week from disabled people across the country with questions about COVID-19, [Read More…]

GETTY/Horacio Villalobos (NEW YORK) — As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 824,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University’s [Read More…]

Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 has touched all corners of the world — and fear, anxiety, and grief have followed in its wake. The pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health [Read More…]

Rob Kim/Getty Images (NEW YORK) – New Year’s Eve celebrations for 2021 were significantly scaled back due to COVID, with hopes of larger celebrations to mark 2022. But with case numbers surging, are this year’s [Read More…]

Hugh Hastings/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With questions swirling about how well rapid COVID-19 tests work when it comes to detecting the omicron variant, leading scientists are now reassuring the public that they do work, [Read More…]

JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images (ATLANTA) — COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective for children, according to three new studies released Thursday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One study, which evaluated [Read More…]

Thomas A. Ferrara/Newsday RM via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads across the country, children are being impacted, too. Last week, nearly 200,000 children in the U.S. [Read More…]

JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A real-world study of South African health care workers found that two doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine offer 85% protection against hospitalization from the [Read More…]

iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — Amid a record-breaking surge, the U.S. is now averaging more COVID-19 cases per day than at any other point in the pandemic, according to new data updated on Wednesday from the [Read More…]

Courtesy Tiesha Robinson (STATESVILLE, N.C.) — A North Carolina mom is celebrating after losing over 200 pounds, half of her original weight. Tiesha Robinson, of Statesville, North Carolina, said she lost the weight even after [Read More…]

iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — With coronavirus cases in the U.S. approaching near-peak levels recorded last winter, pediatric coronavirus infection and hospitalization levels are now surging to their highest point in months. Last week, nearly 200,000 [Read More…]

iStock/koto_feja (NEW YORK) — A new study suggests immunocompromised Americans people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are more likely to have breakthrough infections than people without weakened immune systems, but found full vaccination still [Read More…]

MARTIN BUREAU/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A new trend on TikTok could lead some teens to believe they have a serious mental disorder, according to some experts. The app, which has become a [Read More…]

iStock/narvikk (NEW YORK) — Amidst growing pressure as COVID-19 cases surge across the country, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has now announced that it will shorten the recommended isolation time for [Read More…]

Chen Mengtong/China News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the “extraordinarily contagious” omicron variant surges across the United States, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that COVID-19 cases will likely continue to climb. “Every day it [Read More…]

Ina Fassbender/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 has been a major challenge for schools. From shutting down in March 2020, to reopening and trying to stay open, the task has been varied and in some cases [Read More…]

Newsday LLC/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For weeks now, as public health experts have warned about the COVID-19 omicron variant and its incredible ability to infect people, they’ve followed the bad news with good: booster shots [Read More…]

MediaNews Group/Orange County Register/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Gretchen Lee, a third grader in Washington, D.C., was wrapping up her last week in school ahead of Christmas break when the unexpected happen. A fully vaccinated [Read More…]