Covid

Almost 30 million people in the United States - and likely many others whose diseases have never been diagnosed - have been infected with the coronavirus to date. Should these people still be vaccinated?Two new studies answer this question…

Snow plow carts clear a street in New York, United States on Thursday, December 17, 2020.Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesDeliveries of Covid-19 vaccine doses were delayed in several states this week due to historic winter storms…

According to Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Philadelphia Children's Hospital, the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine is critical to creating longer and complete immunity as well as preventing variants of the…

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, selected as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during an event at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, December 8, 2020.Susan Walsh | APThe United States needs to deploy…

"And I also thought it was important that people of different ages and races be represented," added Audrey, who, like her brother, is Asian. (Her mother Rachel, a nurse researcher who volunteered to try a vaccination, asked that their last…

Vials and a medical syringe are displayed in front of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) US logo. The FDA finds the COVID-19 vaccine.Pavlo Gonchar | LightRocket | Getty ImagesThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will…

President Joe Biden's Covid-19 Response Team is holding a press conference on Friday on the pandemic that infected more than 27 million Americans and killed at least 475,457 people in about a year.Biden announced Thursday that his…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented comprehensive new guidelines on Friday on how schools can be safely reopened for personal learning despite the spread of the coronavirus and highly contagious new variants.The…

Healthcare workers wearing protective clothing prepare to care for patients in the Portimao Arena sports pavilion, which was converted into a field hospital for Covid-19 patients on February 9, 2021 in Portimao, Algarve Photo by PATRICIA DE…

A laboratory technician tests material with a single-channel pipette dropper during processing of the Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction test (PCR) in a laboratory in the South African suburb of Dunkeld in Johannesburg, South Africa on…