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As more people get fully vaccinated against COVID-19, what’s safe for them to do? Don’t expect to shed your mask right away. At least for now, U.S. health authorities say people should follow the same rules as everybody else about wearing a mask, keeping a 6-foot distance and avoiding crowds even after they’ve gotten their second vaccine dose....

In the last six weeks, daily COVID cases in the country have fallen by 78-percent, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Massachusetts, they’re down 76-percent. With the coronavirus pandemic more than a year old, could this drop have anything to do with herd immunity? “That is the million dollar question,” said Dr. Shira Doron,...

According to CDC numbers, in the last six weeks, daily COVID cases in the country have fallen by 78-percent. Could this drop have anything to do with herd immunity?

A new report finds that life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths

Millions in Texas and across the southern U.S. are still without power amid record-breaking winter storms and sub-freezing temperatures, leading some residents to turn to high-risk heat sources to try to keep warm.

Affordable housing advocates have celebrated the Biden administration’s extension of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s moratorium on evictions as a critical move that could help people fight to stay in their homes as the pandemic continues to gut the economy. But the order includes loopholes that financially stretched landlords have been able to use to remove tenants...

Health officials are releasing new guidelines for a safe reopening, but many teachers say they’re very worried about what’s ahead.

Vaccines for teachers are recommended, but not required.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday released new guidance on school reopenings. It advises schools to phase-in their reopening plans in accordance with the severity of local outbreaks.

It’s a race against time to reach herd immunity in the United States, especially with the U.K. coronavirus variant spreading quickly here. One new study, not yet peer reviewed, shows it doubling every 10 days. Epidemiologists say it may be the dominant strain of the virus by March. But even more worrisome is the variant from South Africa, said...

A new government study finds that wearing two masks can be better than one in protecting against coronavirus spread.

Despite its world-class medical system and its vaunted Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. fell behind in the race to detect dangerous coronavirus mutations.

A new federal requirement for wearing face masks on airline flights and public transportation takes effect on Monday

Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Rochelle Walensky provides an update on COVID-19 variants found in the U.S.

While vaccine distribution is in full swing nationwide, some states are outperforming others when it comes to doses distributed and administered. A few New England states are near the top of one or both of those lists, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID Data Tracker, last updated Monday evening. But some show disparities, where the...

The newly appointed director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Sunday that the federal government remains in the dark about just how much vaccine is currently available and warned that states like New York won’t be able to quickly replenish its limited supply, NBC News reports.

The CDC is recommending educators get vaccinated in phase one, but in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, teachers are slated for phase two – and they’re not happy about it.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky takes the helm of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a time when the virus’ American death toll eclipsed 400,000, with 100,000 to come by the middle to end of February at the current pace.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 51, an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, was sworn in Wednesday. She takes the helm at a time when the virus’s U.S. death toll has eclipsed 400,000 and continues to accelerate.

The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is arriving at an agency that has been relegated to the sidelines during the coronavirus pandemic.