Public Health

The case comes less than three weeks before China's capital will host the international sports event.

Chicago's school nurses are eager to mitigate virus spread with new COVID resources, but many wonder who but them will conduct ramped-up testing and tracing.

Public policy should actually look like something approximating the opposite of our current approach.

The University of Exeter study, which could not verify if the people were infectious, comes as the CDC has cut its minimum isolation time to five days.

"When you get an enormous outbreak like we're having right now...It has less relevance," Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association said.

Greg Bourque and his girlfriend, Jen Fromme, were unsuccessful in finding a booster dose before the holidays and Bourque died before their appointment.

Students, who missed five days of classes, returned to school on Wednesday after a tentative deal was reached between the district and the union.

One-size-fits-all solutions have not enjoyed an enviable track record in the COVID era.

One of the main contributors to the decline in the case fatality ratio is likely the increase in vaccinations and boosters.

Despite only accounting for 10 percent of the province's population, unvaccinated individuals represent about half of the province's ICU patients.

Of the COVID-positive patients in the province's intensive care units, 83 percent were admitted for virus-related reasons.

The variant, purportedly a mixture of Delta and Omicron, most likely does not exist and is the result of a standard lab error, virologists have told Newsweek.

Walensky said it was "encouraging news in the context of Omicron" that most deaths caused by the COVID variant were in people with at least four comorbidities, prompting people to tweet "#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy."

A double-vaccinated nurse in the U.K. credits an experimental treatment, including a large dose of Viagra, for saving her life after she got the disease.

Experts have spoken about the diet, followed by NFL Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, which incorporates aspects of two other popular diets and avoids certain foods.

Cases of flu in the U.S. are on the increase, the CDC has said, as reports emerge of people catching that virus and COVID at the same time.

Six advisers published three opinion articles in Journal of the American Medical Association urging the president to change his strategy on COVID-19.

The U.S. has far surpassed last winter's seven-day average peak of 250,000, and the number of current cases is still rising.

Experts say people should not be concerned about the variant that was detected in France towards the end of last year.

Experts say it's possible to catch COVID-19 and flu at the same time, as coronavirus and flu cases increase in number across the country.

"You can keep your head buried in the sand but hospitalizations are now rising sharply," responded a professor of medicine and surgery.

The health agency is recommending that even fully vaccinated people do not go on cruises because of concerns about the spread go the Omicron variant of COVID.

The study looked at hundreds of people with obesity and COVID, some of whom had had weight loss surgery and some who hadn't.

Fauci said the fact the former president was booed shows "how recalcitrant" Trump supporters are "about being told what they should do."

"We really have to focus on hospitalizations and deaths now," Ashish K. Jha said Sunday, adding, "This is the shift we've been waiting for in many ways."

Experts have warned individuals to continue exercising caution even when given a negative COVID test result.

Cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant are occurring in people who have already had COVID before.

Hawaii reported over 1,500 new cases Thursday after seeing an average of about 100 per day at the start of December, one of the biggest spikes in the country.

"We wouldn't tolerate [threats] for a firefighter or somebody working in a bank, so why are we tolerating it in education?" superintendent Randy Russell asked.

CDC data shows that flu cases are increasing across the U.S., as the country deals with a surge in Omicron cases.