Amid a complex, difficult mass immunization effort nationwide, the spotlight has shifted to the clear disconnect between a militant-style cadence of vaccine distibution, and the efforts of some resource-strained states scrambling to administer those doses.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio vocalized an aggressive plan Thursday to vaccinate 1 million New Yorkers by the end of January, marking the largest vaccination effort in the city’s history.
China authorized its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use Thursday, adding another shot that could see wide use in poorer countries as the virus surges back around the globe.
Coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. exceeded 125,000 for the first time Wednesday, coinciding with a new high in daily deaths at almost 4,000, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project.
Following news that the U.K. coronavirus strain has now been detected in California and Colorado, top health experts are stressing the need for mitigation measures to prevent virus spread.
The spoiled doses were reported on Saturday and accidentally left out overnight by an employee at Aurora Medical Center in Grafton, about 23 miles north of Milwaukee.
Colorado officials are investigating a second “highly suspicious” but not yet confirmed case of a coronavirus variant potentially found in another COVID-19 -positive patient.
The holidays looked different for Americans this year, with traditions altered or scrapped altogether due to the pandemic. To cope, some turned to decorating houses or driving around the see festive lights, but will those temporary distractions give way to the post-holiday blues?
The new and seemingly more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has set off alarm in Britain has been reported for the first time in the U.S., in a Colorado man who hadn't been traveling, triggering a host of questions about how it got here and adding urgency to the nation's vaccination drive.
A surge in pediatric coronavirus cases over the last several weeks has seen the number of illnesses in kids surpass 2 million, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Britain became the first in the world to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, with rollout and distribution set to get underway by early next week.
Southern California hospitals, already overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, are now facing a new problem -- a shortage of oxygen, according to a report.
As the second wave of coronavirus sweeps New York, the state's governor has threatened legal action not only against a Brooklyn-based network of medical clinics that allegedly distributed the Moderna coronavirus vaccine out of sequence with state guidelines but those who received the first shot before their eligibility.
Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, of Boston Medical Center, received his first dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday and said he immediately felt his heart racing.
The doctor in Massachusetts believed to be the first in the U.S. to suffer an adverse reaction to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine said that the symptoms began within moments of the shot being administered.
Despite the severe global toll of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization warns that the outbreak is “not necessarily the big one” — and urges the world to get “serious” about preparedness.
U.K.’s first recipient of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine received her second dose of the shot on Tuesday, becoming the first person outside of clinical study to be fully inoculated, according to reports.
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