(NEW YORK) — The United States marked a new stage in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that “COVID-19 no ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first omicron variant in Illinois was tested at a Rush University Medical Center lab in December after sequencing COVID samples from across the city of Chicago. "Since then it has ...

With lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine debates and over 6.9 million deaths worldwide, COVID-19 has held the world’s attention since January 2020, when it was declared a public health emergency of ...

While many countries lift mask mandates and coronavirus restrictions, Hong Kong and China are reeling from an Omicrons surge. Britain, the US and some parts of Europe are seeing a new spike in cases.

In a recent commentary published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers reviewed the usefulness of universal masking in healthcare professionals (HCPs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The COVID-19 public health emergency is officially over. COVID-19 has transitioned from a pandemic to an endemic. For the scientists and doctors on the frontlines of this ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As California becomes the first U.S. state to adopt an "endemic" approach to COVID-19, we take a closer look at what becoming "endemic" means and if virus levels have truly ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It is "reasonably likely" to expect the pandemic to draw to a close as soon as a month from today, though COVID-19 is likely to stay, according to UCSF's Chair of the Department of ...

Five years after the pandemic began, covid-19 is now more consistent with an endemic disease, U.S. health experts said. It has become similar to influenza — an endemic disease — in terms of the risk ...

Oct. 17—Earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, much of the discussion about when and how society would "return to normal" focused on herd immunity, the level at which enough people are immune — through ...

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