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COVID-19
Free at-home COVID tests are back. Here's how to get yours
The federal program has been reopened on the heels of a summer COVID-19 virus wave and heading into the fall and winter respiratory virus season.
Americans will soon be able to order free COVID-19 tests again: How it works
An agency spokesperson has said the COVID tests will detect current virus strains and can be ordered ahead of the holiday season.
A new COVID-19 vaccine has been approved. Here's when it will appear in pharmacies and doctors' offices.
While most Americans have some degree of immunity from prior infections or vaccinations or both, that protection wanes.
Like Noah Lyles, dozens of Olympians with COVID are competing in Paris.
Organizers have issued health recommendations, but no restrictions, for dozens of athletes who have tested positive for COVID during the Paris Olympics.
COVID on the rise in both people and the wildlife in Virginia
A new report shows that more than 20 wildlife species have had or currently have "Sars-Cov-2." This is the virus COVID-19 came from.
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New COVID vaccines could be on the way for fall
Mask mandate implemented in Maryland elementary school after COVID outbreak
The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people
Summer COVID surge looming, CDC warns
COVID public health emergency ends. What does that mean?
WHO ends COVID-19 'state of emergency' declared 3 years ago
Pandemic report card is in for DC, Maryland, Virginia
Biden ends National Emergency for COVID-19
COVID19: 3 years later
Experts: COVID on the rise, highly transmissible; less lethal
Reports from wastewater surveillance show COVID numbers rising this summer.
Fauci pushes back partisan attacks in fiery House hearing over COVID origins and controversies
Fauci testified in public and on camera for the first time since he ended more than five decades of government service.
Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous
Even without political complications, experts say learning how outbreaks begin is incredibly challenging and that it’s rare to know with certainty how one started.
CDC drops 5-day isolation recommendation for those with COVID-19
The change is an effort to streamline recommendations so they are similar to longstanding recommendations for flu and other respiratory viruses.
More hospitals are requiring masks as flu and COVID-19 cases surge
While many experts say this season likely won’t prove to be as deadly as some other recent winters, it still could mean hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations.
In 2023, face masks are relatively rare, but COVID is coming back for the holidays
The days of anything approaching a widespread mask mandate would be like the Ghost of Christmas Past, a glimpse into what was.
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson admits to making mistakes but defends COVID record at inquiry
Britain had one of Europe’s longest and strictest lockdowns, as well as one of the continent's highest COVID-19 death tolls.
You can now sign up for 4 more free COVID-19 tests
The government is mailing out more coronavirus tests as the flu season kicks off and a spike in RSV cases has been reported in some spots.
Fraudster stole $8 million in COVID-19 relief funds, bought private island
The man who bought the island is serving five and a half years in federal prison for stealing the $8 million in pandemic relief funds.
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