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At the height of the pandemic, doctors and nurses made furious efforts to protect themselves with gowns and masks and scrambled to save the lives of the severely ill Covid-19 patients with ventilators.But these efforts, among other life…

Many people are seeking definitive answers about what they can and can’t do after being vaccinated against Covid-19. Is it OK to travel? Should I go to a big wedding? Does the Delta variant make spending time with my vaccinated grandmother…

Coronavirus vaccines offered strong protection against infection for key workers earlier this year, but became less effective when the highly contagious Delta variant became the predominant form of the virus, according to a study published…

An infection control nurse accompanies a patient who was born on Jan.Karen Ducey | Getty ImagesCovid-19 transmissions and hospitalizations in Washington state are at all-time highs, according to the state's Department of Health.On July 8,…

Since Americans first began rolling up their sleeves for coronavirus vaccines, health officials have said that those who are immunized are very unlikely to become infected, or to suffer serious illness or death. But preliminary data from…

In light of new evidence that vaccinated people with breakthrough infections can carry as much coronavirus as unvaccinated people, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has urged people in high-transmission areas to wear masks in…

In some rare cases, breakthrough infections may lead to persistent symptoms.“Long Covid” is a poorly understood set of symptoms that can plague people for several months after an active infection has ended. While those symptoms eventually…

Revising a decision made just two months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that people vaccinated against the coronavirus should resume wearing masks in public indoor spaces in parts of the country where…

Whether a vaccinated person ever becomes infected may depend on how high antibodies spiked after vaccination, how potent those antibodies are against the variant, and whether the level of antibodies in the person’s blood has waned since…

A woman wearing a face mask as a prevention against Covid-19 walks along the promenade at Marina Bay in Singapore on May 9th, 2020.Facebook Facebook logo Sign up on Facebook to connect with Roslan Rahman AFP | Getty ImagesSINGAPORE - The…