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hocus-focus/iStock(NEW YORK) -- As Americans start packing bars and live venues once again in the age of mass COVID-19 vaccination -- with many abandoning masks and social distancing measures -- a con...

ozdigital/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Starting next week, 150 Connecticut college students will begin training to go out into communities in their state that are lagging in vaccination rates and try to combat...

HRAUN/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 developed complications associated with the virus, prompting experts to warn that long-term problems from COVID could strain the h...

Courtesy Courtney Moore(NEW YORK) -- A California mom is sharing a warning for other parents after her 16-month-old son's wet diapers ended in a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, a chronic disease. Courtn...

PinkOmelet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The World Health Organization warned Thursday that the surging COVID-19 pandemic in many parts of the world increases the likelihood that new, potentially dangerous vari...

Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The surgeon general is warning Americans about the "urgent threat of health misinformation" amid the government's current push to boo...

Ridofranz/iStock(NEW YORK) -- After more than two months of trying to woo hesitant Americans to get COVID-19 vaccines with cash, free beer and other prizes, health data and experts suggest those incen...

Rattankun Thongbun/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When Peter Morley, who has an autoimmune disease, was out and about on the streets of New York City for Pride Month celebrations in June, he wore a mask -- as we...

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A highly contagious variant of the novel coronavirus that was initially identified in India now accounts for about 58% of all COVID-19 cases in the United States, ac...

narvikk/iStock(JACKSON, Miss.) -- As the delta variant spreads rapidly across the U.S., Mississippi officials are warning about hospitalizations of children with severe cases of COVID-19. Of the seven...