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Summer Camps Hit With COVID Outbreaks — Are Schools Next?
The U.S. has seen a string of COVID-19 outbreaks tied to summer camps in recent weeks in places such as Texas, Illinois, Florida, Missouri and...
White House Calls Out Critics of COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts
As COVID-19 vaccination rates continue to plateau across the U.S., the White House is beginning to call out elected officials who criticize the national effort...
Biden Reemphasizes Strategies to Reach Unvaccinated
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden renewed the push to get Americans vaccinated against...
Israel Reinstates Indoor Face Mask Rule Amid Delta Variant
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The Israeli government on Friday told residents they need to start...
A Teachers Union Shaped CDC School Guidance. Is That a Problem?
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued much-anticipated guidelines for school reopening in February, some critics argued that the nation’s premier health...
Biden Kept His Promise to Increase COVID Testing Capacity
Before vaccinations were widely available, covid-19 tests were considered one of the few tools to help control the spread of the coronavirus. That’s why then-candidate...
Continue with COVID-19 Precautions or Party Like It’s 2019?
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Have we arrived at a much-anticipated tipping point in the COVID-19 pandemic in...
Corporations Encourage Employee Vaccination
Many of the companies with the largest number of employees say they’ll do almost anything to encourage their employees to get vaccinated. But a survey...
Old Records Shed New Light on Smallpox Outbreaks in 1700s
A prayer Rev. Ebenezer Storer, a pastor in Cambridge, Massachusetts, wrote in which he gives thanks for the recovery of family members from the disease....
Docs Mobilize Help For Indian Colleagues Affected by COVID Surge
Clinicians from across the world are banding together to mobilize help for their colleagues in India, where more than 300,000 new cases of COVID-19 have...
Could It Happen Here? India’s Dire COVID Situation Likely to Worsen
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Reports out of India describe a dire COVID-19 situation unfolding, with...
Will Michigan’s Conservative Outposts Keep Pandemic Rolling?
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. When Kathryn Watkins goes shopping these days, she doesn’t bring her...
Worldwide COVID-19 Cases Reached New Weekly Record
More COVID-19 cases were reported worldwide last week than in any other seven-day period during the pandemic, according to new data published Tuesday by the...
Brazil’s P1 COVID Variant Mutating, May Become More Dangerous
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s P1 coronavirus variant, behind a deadly COVID-19 surge in the Latin American country that has raised international alarm, is...
Next Winter May Be Rough: Models Predict ‘Considerable Surge’
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. It’s likely the United States will see another surge of COVID-19 this...
COVID-19 Surge in Canada Prompts Alarm, Stay-in-Place Orders
Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. As millions more US residents are receiving COVID-19 vaccinations each day — including...
As States Expand Vaccines, Prisoners Still Lack Access
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. This week, Florida expanded eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines to all residents...
Beating the Pavement to Vaccinate the Underrepresented
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Leonor Garcia held her clipboard close to her chest and rapped...
Neutral Zone Border-Crossing Parties Risking Infection
BLAINE, Wash. — In the shadows of covid travel restrictions, a 42-acre park on the far western edge of the U.S.-Canadian dividing line has become...
Children Likely the ‘Leading Edge’ in Spread of COVID-19 Variants
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Public health officials in the Midwest and Northeast are sounding the...
Lifetime Achievement: Anthony Fauci, MD
When Anthony Fauci, MD, was called to help lead the country’s COVID-19 response in January 2020 as part of the White House’s coronavirus...
California Leaders Look to Reopening, Push 1-Shot Vaccine
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California officials are contemplating what things will...
To Extract More Doses per Vial, Vaccinators Put Squeeze on FDA
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden has promised enough covid vaccine to immunize every...
A Single-County Measles Outbreak Cost Millions, Study Finds
A measles outbreak that infected 72 people in Washington State cost approximately $3.4 million, including costs of the public health response, medical treatment expenses, and...
States Easing Virus Restrictions Despite Experts’ Warnings
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. MISSION, Kan. (AP) — With the U.S. vaccination drive picking up...
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