Three employees at a lab in Wuhan, China, became sick and required hospitalization in November 2019, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report cited by The Wall Street Journal.
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More than 250 public health officials have left their jobs since the pandemic started, Lori Freeman, CEO of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told CNN.
Once fully vaccinated, Pfizer-BioNTech's and AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines are effective against B.1.617.2, a more transmissible variant first detected in India, the U.K.'s public health agency announced May 22.
The CDC updated its COVID-19 testing guidance for vaccinated people last week and shared a new tally on the small number of people who've been hospitalized or died from the virus after being fully vaccinated.
The nation's seven-day COVID-19 case average has fallen to levels not seen since June 2020, according to CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review published May 21.
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Maryland and New York are the latest states behind Ohio to roll out lotteries for state residents who get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Many older adults have experienced physical and cognitive decline after sheltering in place for 15 months, a problem Kaiser Health News calls a "little-discussed, long-term toll of the pandemic" in a May 21 report.
Researchers have detected a new canine coronavirus in a child hospitalized with pneumonia in Malaysia in 2018, according to findings published May 20 in the journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases. If confirmed as a human pathogen, it could become the…
The U.S. can likely avoid fall COVID-19 surges if it vaccinates 70 percent of all adults in the country by July 4, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in a May 20…
Hepatitis A and C infections in the U.S. rose from 2015-19, according to the CDC's 2019 viral hepatitis surveillance report published May 19.