Public Health

In some cases, elected officials are spending the last of a federal relief package passed in the spring as an end-of-year deadline approaches.

The result could be potential dips in reported infections that offer the illusion that the spread of the virus is easing.

A newly energized coronavirus largely kept the masses away from the big shopping meccas in suburban Philly.

COVID-19 cases are surging and immigrant communities are experiencing disproportionately higher rates of deaths and jobs losses.

As COVID cases rise, hospitals are making plans in case they begin running short of beds. If certain benchmarks are hit, elective surgeries may be curtailed.

But even when those vaccines hit the market, they will not be available to children. That's because very few children have been part of the clinical trials to date.

The coronavirus presented huge challenges for the fall semester for U.S. colleges that opened the academic year with in-person learning.

The city health department updates numbers daily.

Macy’s Christmas Light Show returns Friday but people will have to check it out online as the store takes coronavirus precautions.

The model attempts to account for the fact that most cases of COVID-19 are mild or asymptomatic and go unreported.

Americans, millions of whom traveled against the advice of public health officials, tried to stay safe before they hunkered down with their families for Thanksgiving.

Recent research reveals that older populations are less consumed by pandemic depression than those that are younger.

New education commissioner says stay the course, even as parents worry their kids are falling behind.

The court ruled that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's executive order violated the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause, and actively discriminated against religious institutions.

With promising news out of COVID-19 vaccine trials, the question now is how many people will get the vaccine? And can or will employers require their workers get vaccinated?