Pandemic

The delta variant is causing a huge pediatric surge that is similar to November 2020, right before the massive spike at Christmas time. Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth is reporting case numbers at rates not seen since February. While the numbers are small compared with the population, it is the increase that has doctors concerned.

The number of new daily cases has surpassed 2,000 for two days in a row and hospital heads say they are starting to feel the results.

Local store and restaurant owners contemplate response to CDC recommendations that fully vaccinated people resume wearing masks indoors.

Hard-hit communities across the U.S. hope to combat the rising number of fatal overdoses as the nation reached a morbid milestone in the drug epidemic: Drug overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 in 2020, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We need to stop treating the climate emergency as a stand-alone issue—global heating is not the sole symptom of our stressed Earth system."

The company's digital therapy platform works to measure and improve someone's ability to walk after they have experienced a neurologic injury or disease.

Instead of dwelling on a drop in life expectancy in 2020, the US should worry about the long-term trend, a demographer says.

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They not only prevent people from getting sick; they also cut down on transmission by those who get infected after immunization

A man has been arrested and charged in federal court with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, and their families, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.

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Older adults seeking to maintain social contact during the pandemic can use texting and email in the short-term, but it doesn't effectively replace normal social interaction, a study presented Wednesday at a conference.

Almost 99% people who have died of COVID-19 in Italy since February this year were not fully vaccinated, the National Health Institute (ISS) said on Tuesday.

Congress's attending physician announced vaccinated and unvaccinated House members will again have to mask up while in the U.S. Capitol or risk a fine.

Federal prosecutors in Maryland say a man has been arrested and charged with sending emails that threatened to harm and kill Dr. Anthony Fauci, National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Francis Collins, and their families.

A new study adds to the growing body of evidence that the pandemic's true toll is far greater than official tallies show.

Seventy-five days after the CDC said vaccinated people no longer needed to wear face coverings, the agency has announced a return to masking.

The CDC issued new guidance Tuesday recommending vaccinated Americans resume wearing masks indoors under certain circumstance as the Delta variant surges.

The African country, previously credited for high childhood vaccination rates, was 1 of 4 countries to reject COVID vaccines. Now they've done a 180. It's unclear if its citizens will go along.

You could almost hear the collective groan of frustration around the country Tuesday when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention again updated its guidance, encouraging more Americans and all schoolkids and teachers to wear face masks to stop the spread of Covid-19.