Ultra-contagious BA.4, BA.5 subvariants fuel coronavirus spread across much of California
In a sign of how the new coronavirus wave continues to spread across California, two-thirds of the state’s counties are...
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Supreme Court declines religious challenge to COVID-19 vaccine mandates in New York
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to take up a challenge to a vaccine mandate for health workers in...
Updating education data systems is critical to COVID recovery
It has been two years since schools across the United States closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and though...
With hospitals calm and deaths low, expert says Israel’s COVID wave about to recede
Israel’s current coronavirus wave is almost at its peak and the number of new daily infections will soon start to...
D.C. ends coronavirus contact tracing effort, laying off 131 workers
The D.C. Health Department has terminated 131 members of its coronavirus contact tracing program, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday, marking the...
Some Philadelphia parents scramble to find COVID-19 vaccine appointments for their young kids
Samantha Greenberg said she was overcome with emotion when she saw an Instagram post about a COVID-19 vaccine clinic for...
Live news updates: Kyiv defends military retreat from eastern battle zones
Welcome to independence week. The big one — the celebration of 1776 and all that — kicks off across the...
Civil Beat Law Center Goes To Court To Make Prison Covid-19 Reports Public
The state is refusing to release six reports on the correctional system’s efforts to cope with the pandemic inside Hawaii...
COVID in California: CDC data highlight benefit from boosters in preventing deaths
Federal vaccine advisers urged the FDA to authorize a COVID-19 booster shot that targets omicron subvariants. Two new highly infectious...
Is ‘hybrid immunity’ still possible in the face of new omicron variants?
Dr. Abraar Karan, an infectious disease doctor at Stanford, suffered the same fate as many people in January. Despite being...