Health & Science

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, ruling that 16- and 17-year-olds can get a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.

Tower Health says a deal with Texas-based hospital management firm Canyon Atlantic Partners LLC has fallen apart and left it no options.

Statewide, an average of 3,900 people per day have been hospitalized with COVID-19 over the past two weeks, up 50% in a month.

Health Commissioner Dr. Judy Persichelli confirmed that the state lab had conducted sequencing on three suspected cases and the results are pending.

In small studies in South Africa and Germany, the results indicate a marked decrease in the ability of vaccines to neutralize this variant.

New cases in the U.S. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. 22 to almost 119,000 a day this week, and hospitalizations are up 25% from a month ago.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said lab tests showed a booster dose increased by 25-fold the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies against omicron.

Diagnoses in people who inject drugs were rising before the pandemic. Health officials worry now about spread among people who don’t know their HIV status.

The latest surge has led Gov. Carney to schedule his first coronavirus briefing in more than two months for this afternoon.

Troopers stood guard at entrances around the statehouse complex, including little-used doorways where no state police presence is typically present.

Can the latest competitor to the world-dominating delta overthrow it?

The rapid emergence of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has many questioning whether they should rethink their holiday travel plans.

A new poll finds that the stresses of the coronavirus pandemic have been especially hard for younger Americans, particularly when it comes to their education and social lives.

There's a lot we don't know about the new COVID variant. Many people are wondering if they can fly and go to holiday parties and restaurants — or should just hide out.