Public Health

A survivor of the 2014 Ebola epidemic in West Africa may have harbored the virus for at least five years and is likely the source of the latest outbreak, The New York Times reported March 12. 

.article-date{display: none;} Here are the rates of positive COVID-19 tests in each state, along with the number of new cases most recently reported and number of tests conducted per 100,000 people. 

The current flu hospitalization rate is about one-third the rate seen at this time during the low severity 2011-12 season, according to the CDC's FluView report for the week ending March 6.

Abbott launched a pandemic defense coalition dedicated to studying coronavirus variants and developing rapid response plans for future viral outbreaks, the medical devicemaker announced March 11.

The U.K. coronavirus variant has now been identified in every U.S. state, according to the CDC's COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review published March 12.  

Before COVID-19, the U.S. was battling a resurgence of a different infectious disease: measles. New research shows a 2019 outbreak in Clark County, Washington, that sickened 72 people and made national headlines cost an estimated $3.4 million.

While the FDA granted emergency use authorization to Regeneron and Eli Lilly's antibody treatments in November 2020, many healthcare organizations have been slow to adopt these treatments due to a web of logistical challenges.

Florida is reporting the most coronavirus variant cases in the U.S. as travelers flock to the state for spring break, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Some public health experts have expressed concerns that these visitors may bring the more contagious variants…

President Joe Biden called on all states, tribes and territories to open COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to all adults by May 1 during his first prime-time address March 11, marking the anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

People who received both doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's messenger RNA vaccine and had no symptoms had an 80 percent lower risk of testing positive for COVID-19 compared to those who were unvaccinated, according to research published March 10 in Clinical Infectious…