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Dr. Scott Atlas, a former special adviser to the Trump administration, warned public schools against embracing draconian safety measures as they move toward returning children to their classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A young California boy who was born with cystic fibrosis is battling a COVID-19 infection, his mother said. 

New York has confirmed a case of the South African coronavirus variant in a patient who was transferred to a city hospital from Connecticut.

An expert with the Centers for Diease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently shared three common side effects of the COVID-19 vaccine. 

The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the U.N. agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a U.N.-backed program to tame the pandemic.

The University of Oxford has launched a trial to study the safety and efficacy of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in children as young as 6.

Despite the recent dip in national virus cases, Andy Slavitt, the White House COVID-19 response team’s senior adviser, said Monday that the B.1.1.7 variant will fuel the next wave of case growth as the country pushes on with vaccinations.

A rare but potentially serious coronavirus-related syndrome may be behind the death of a young doctor in Tennesee, according to a local report. 

As people spend more time indoors, a mountain of scientific research says spending time in nature is critical to health and increases longevity.

Health officials in Oregon said they are investigating four so-called “breakthrough” cases of coronavirus that were detected in individuals two weeks after they received their second dose of vaccine.

The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — and regulators are looking to flu as a blueprint if and when the shots need an update.

Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned Sunday that infections remain high and precautions to slow the pandemic must remain in place.

A man is in critical condition fighting, what scientists say, is the first case of reinfection with a concerning coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa.

Though many people with disabilities are more vulnerable to COVID-19, in some U.S. states they fear being left behind in a massive effort to get limited vaccines into the arms of those who need them most.

A study by Israel’s largest healthcare provider on Sunday found that after participants received two doses of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, they saw a 94% drop in symptomatic COVID-19 infections, according to a report. 

Guinea, the West Africa country, announced Sunday that the Ebola virus has become an epidemic after the deaths of three people and hospitalizations of four others, a report said.

New findings have added to growing concern over whether the coronavirus variant first discovered in the U.K., and since found in the U.S. and elsewhere, is deadlier than other versions of the virus.

The country also surpassed 50 million vaccinations nationwide by the end of last week.

The CDC believes that its new guidelines will work for even the most heavily affected areas.

The Food and Drug Administration granted Moderna permission to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses per vial from 10 to 14, the New York Times reports.