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Cotton face masks are proving more effective against the spread of the coronavirus than previously thought, a new study found.

It’s beginning to feel like spring, and with warmer weather also comes seasonal allergies, which could increase one’s susceptibility to a COVID-19 infection, suggests the findings of a new study. 

President Biden has been fully vaccinated for coronavirus since January.

Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic a year ago were overprescribed antibiotics, suggests the findings of new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts. 

Several top health experts are touting new federal guidelines on practices considered safe for fully vaccinated populations against COVID-19, while underscoring the importance of masking up in high risk and public settings.

The latest seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. has dropped to around 1,600, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said in a White House briefing Wednesday.

No one has been untouched.

A combination of two Eli Lilly antibody drugs cut the risk of COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths by 87%, the company announced Wednesday, further upholding dosing already authorized by the Food and Drug Administration.

Alaska has become the first state to drop eligibility requirements for COVID-19 vaccines and allow anyone 16 or older who lives or works in the state to get a vaccine, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said Tuesday.

Around 78% of people who were hospitalized, needed a ventilator, or died as a result of COVID-19, were overweight or obsess, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for a new coronavirus testing method using the body’s T-cells — which could help better diagnose COVID long-haulers.

More Americans now qualify for yearly scans to detect lung cancer, according to guidelines released Tuesday that may help more Black smokers and women get screened.

Early research suggests that face masks used to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus are safe to use even during intense exercise, and could help to curb the spread of COVID-19 at indoor gyms. 

Hawaii health officials this week announced the state’s first case of a concerning coronavirus variant that was first identified in South Africa late last year.

Houston health officials warned Monday that the U.K. coronavirus variant was detected at most city wastewater treatment plants, “suggesting ongoing and uncontrolled community spread” of the more contagious virus strain.

The daughter of a 91-year-old Ohio man said he is recovering after he was allegedly given back-to-back doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.

Michigan health officials confirmed the first case of the South African coronavirus variant in a Jackson County child, reports say.

One US victim of COVID-19 experienced priapism (a long-lasting erection) when, doctors believe, the disease caused blood to clot in his penis, according to a new study on the complication.

Colorado health officials over the weekend confirmed the state’s first cases of a concerning coronavirus variant that was first detected in South Africa. 

Hundreds of nurses at a Massachusetts hospital walked off the job on Monday morning after failing to reach an agreement with management over staffing levels.