Public Health

Three new U.S. studies offer more evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who have gotten booster shots.

The lawsuit filed in Minnesota alleges Center for COVID Control either failed to deliver results or delivered inaccurate results.

About 400 people live-streamed Thursday night’s meeting. More than a dozen spoke, protesting the district’s continued mask mandate.

Now researchers in the U.K. have the first estimates for how long a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine will last. The findings are mixed.

The order means health care workers who are unvaccinated will have until Jan. 27 to get their first shot and until Feb. 28 for the second.

Members of the Medical Reserve Corps, both medical and non-medical volunteers, assist health care personnel with their workloads.

Hospital leaders report they are seeing a dramatic rise in patients, however, and urge individuals to seek testing away from the ERs.

Experts say the plan to distribute 1 billion tests is a good first step, but it must become a regular part of the pandemic response.

Cases are down from their peak around Jan. 9, city Health Commissioner Bettigole said. Hospitalizations, which lag new cases, are up.

Decades ago, Mexican activists drove women into the United States to terminate their pregnancies at clinics.

"The protections offered by surgical and/or isolation masks outweigh those provided by cloth masking," said Main Line Health.

The masks will be available for pickup at pharmacies and community health centers across the country.

Philly’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for indoor dining is now fully in effect. So what does this mean for restaurant operators and workers?

The website appears not to recognize some residences within multi-unit buildings as individual households.

Delaware’s daily cases and hospitalizations have dropped over the last five days, fueling guarded optimism from the governor and health officials.