Health & Science

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.

For some, getting a positive test could mean loss of income. Doctors worry about growing disincentives to test and how this could prolong the pandemic.

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.

Flood risk in the United States will increase by about 25% in the next three decades, and Black communities in the South will face disproportionate harm.

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 Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has approved a new model for analyzing wildlife that would guide quotas beyond just male crabs.

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

People who get infected with omicron are less likely to go to the hospital, go on a ventilator or die. But hospitals are still struggling to treat the huge volume of patients.