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The move could open the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots by early March.

The weekly average of new daily cases has plummeted by 74% since Delaware’s indoor mask mandate went into effect. Hospitalizations are down by half.

A federal court filing made Tuesday in Cleveland lays out the details of the settlements with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson and distribution companies.

90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more than in all of 2020.

The FDA is pushing the company to submit its application based on the two-dose data for potential approval in February.

The temporary sites, one of which will be located in Philadelphia, will allow hospitals to more rapidly discharge patients in need of long-term care.

Coronavirus cases are dropping, but Delaware hospitals are still operating under crisis standards of care. “COVID is still deadly,” one nurse manager stressed.

Brandywine and Jennersville hospitals are now both closed. A new task force aims to keep services going, while another group wants the courts to intervene.

Full approval means FDA has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review for Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines.

Omicron's race across the globe has amped up concerns about long COVID, which some estimates suggest affects a third of COVID-19 survivors.

The Biden administration is providing free at-home swab tests for COVID-19. But they come with significant barriers for the blind community.

The county will lose yet another emergency room, the second in a month, and its only inpatient behavioral health facility on Monday.

Now omicron is estimated to account for nearly all the virus circulating in the nation.

A Dec. 28 letter says Tower failed to provide Chester County Emergency Medical Services with “accurate, ongoing communication.”