Coronavirus Pandemic

The district says cloth masks are no longer considered effective, and will be distributing KN95s to school staff.

The day the Pennsylvania Homeowners Assistance Fund application portal opened, it crashed, inundated with people trying to register.

The top reason for hybrid or remote work was, unsurprisingly, COVID-19 itself. The second most given reason was attracting and retaining employees.

Citing recent data from the CDC, officials in the Garden State will use all of their outreach strategies to promote boosters.

As of Jan. 26, it said, 96% of active troops have been completely vaccinated, while 3,350 soldiers have refused to get the vaccine.

The city’s health commissioner said vaccinating children under 5 will help slow the spread, and the city will be ready when federal regulators give the green light.

Many families with low incomes who want their children to keep learning remotely are losing access to a federal program that helped them pay for meals.

NPR has obtained the government's $5.3 million contract for the first 10 million courses of Paxlovid, an antiviral pill for COVID-19. Here's what's in it.

The first big hurdle was crossed when Pfizer shared its clinical trial data with the FDA. There are five more steps before this vulnerable population can be vaxxed.

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.

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.