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iStock/koto_feja(NEW YORK) -- Just three weeks after it was first discovered in the United States, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now estimates that the highly transmissible omicr...

David Malan/Getty Images(CHICAGO) -- When Autumn Carver was in her darkest days fighting off complications from COVID-19, which she contracted while pregnant with her third child, she said she still h...

Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As rates of COVID-19 infections rise during the holidays and omicron cases surface across the United States, drug companies Pfizer and Merck are p...

Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith(NEW YORK) -- Dr. Deborah Levine has been a pediatric emergency medicine physician in the New York City area for over two decades. In recent years, she has o...

Joe Raedle/Getty Images(ATLANTA) -- The CDC's advisory committee recommended Thursday that people who have a choice should get an mRNA vaccine, either Pfizer or Moderna, over the single-shot Johnson &...

PeopleImages/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted Americans’ perceptions of health care, and not for the better, according to a new survey. Nearly half of Americans say the pand...

Kilito Chan/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Two senators are taking aim at the widespread issue of fake and ineffective masks flooding the U.S. market. A new bill announced Thursday and obtained exclusively by ...

(ATLANTA) -- As the delta variant of COVID-19 spread across the United States this summer, the virus appeared to take a particular toll on unvaccinated pregnant people, with deaths dramatically increa...

scaliger/iStock(NEW YORK) -- One year ago, on Dec. 14, 2020, Sandra Lindsay, an intensive care nurse from Northwell Health, became the first American to roll up her sleeve and receive a COVID-19 vacci...

iStock/koto_feja(NEW YORK) -- Requiring proof of a COVID-19 vaccination to eat at a restaurant, go to a movie or take part in other indoor group activities may have a ripple effect, according to resea...