Public Health

Flu cases have remained relatively low so far this season — a great relief to public health officials who previously feared an influx of severe flu patients on top of COVID-19 patients, or a twindemic, would devastate an already overburdened…

American Indian and Alaskan Native people were nearly twice as likely to die from COVID-19 compared to non-Hispanic whites, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Dec. 11. 

From the moment COVID-19 emerged in the United States, dedicated caregivers across Ascension — and caregivers everywhere — have worked tirelessly on the front lines to care for those impacted by the pandemic.

The healthcare community's understanding of COVID-19 has greatly evolved since the novel virus first reached the U.S. in January, prompting many CDC updates, walk-backs and suspicions of political influence along the way.

As of Dec. 13, a record 109,331 Americans were hospitalized with COVID-19, and 21,231 patients were in intensive care, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project. 

A scratch-and-sniff screening tool that identifies impaired sense of smell, a common symptom of COVID-19, could help quickly pinpoint cases, CBS News reports. 

A Biogen conference held in Boston in February has been linked to about 330,00 COVID-19 cases globally, according to a study published Dec. 10 in Science. 

The U.S. reported a record 107,258 COVID-19 hospitalizations Dec. 10, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project. 

Technologists have been working to create digital apps to easily show a person's COVID-19 vaccine certification, but there are still key issues that experts say will make it unlikely the apps become widely available in the coming months, NBC News…

The U.S. is entering a winter holiday season like no other seen in the last 100 years as COVID-19 cases surge nationwide. The country faced a similar scenario in 1918, as the holidays came shortly after the Spanish flu's deadliest…