Public Health

The highly transmissible delta variant now accounts for nearly 99 percent of COVID-19 cases in the U.S., according to CDC data. 

If vaccination rates increase in the U.S. this fall and winter, the U.S. could regain control of the pandemic and see some normalcy return by next spring, President Joe Biden's top pandemic medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, MD, said during an…

Memorial Hermann Health System has temporarily closed three of its 24-hour standalone emergency rooms as COVID-19 continues to strain hospital operations, the Houston-based health system confirmed to Becker's.

Kentucky will send National Guard members to struggling hospitals as the state set new pandemic records Aug. 23 for residents with COVID-19 who are hospitalized, admitted to the intensive care unit and on ventilators, Gov. Andy Beshear said during a press…

The Queen's Health Systems in Honolulu said it is rescheduling nonemergency surgeries and taking other safety measures after a surge in COVID-19 patients prompted it to declare an internal state of emergency. 

CVS Health employees, including those at Aetna, have until Oct. 31 to get vaccinated if they interact with patients or are a corporate worker.

Fourteen HHS healthcare professionals arrived Aug. 20 at Foley, Ala.-based South Baldwin Regional Medical Center to help amid a COVID-19 surge, reports Alabama Live.

The nation's seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases was 150,625 as of Aug. 23, mirroring levels seen in late January, according to data tracked by The New York Times.

COVID-19 hospitalizations among children are at the highest level since HHS started tracking them last year, and some children's hospitals are preparing for surges to worsen as schools reopen, The Wall Street Journal reported Aug. 22.

The intensive care unit at UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Ala., is seeing an "extraordinary" number of pregnant women, Steve Stigler, MD, director of UAB Hospital's medical ICU, said Aug. 20.