Health

With COVID-19 surging from coast to coast, the number of hospitalized patients has more than doubled over the past month, pushing health care workers to the breaking point.

New Jersey officials are urging all visitors entering the state as well as returning residents to self-quarantine for 14 days.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention trimmed its recommended quarantine for possible exposure — from 14 days to seven or 10, depending on test results and symptoms.

A federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire on Dec. 31. Kathryn Leifheit of UCLA says new data suggest evictions are linked to increases in COVID cases and deaths.

Social distancing fell dramatically between spring and fall and the gap between Democrats and Republicans widened. But both ends of the political spectrum agree on some measur

U.S. health officials say staying home for the upcoming winter holidays is the best way to stay safe and protect others.

Some panel members and other experts had also grown concerned by comments from Trump administration officials that suggested differing vaccine priorities.

The daily case count reported Tuesday was the highest of the pandemic and hospitalizations have risen more than 150 percent in the last month.

Since Allegheny, Bucks, Chester, Erie, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties have their own health departments, they are excluded from the testing expansion.

European regulators may approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech within four weeks, the EU’s drug agency said Tuesday.

This discovery adds to evidence that the virus was quietly spreading around the world before health officials and the public were aware, disrupting previous thinking.

"You have to assume you were exposed and you became infected"

A.J. Schall has been a key player in Delaware’s fight against COVID-19 alongside Gov. John Carney. Now Schall’s been infected with the virus.

State officials have made its COVID tracking app available to children as young as 13 in an attempt to mitigate the spread of the virus.

Last spring, nurses and doctors traveled to COVID hot spots to help overwhelmed hospitals. But with the virus spreading everywhere, hospitals have nowhere to turn for help.