WHO, AMA, AAP and existing standards recommend that people who have never received a COVID-19 vaccine, are age 65 and older, are immunocompromised, live at a long-term care facility, are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant, and/or want to avoid getting long COVID-19, should get the vaccine, especially.

COVID-19 cases are rising across the U.S., with Texas among the hardest hit. Experts say the Stratus variant and summer travel are driving the increase.

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

Getting the flu may result in worse consequences than just being bedridden for a few days, according to new research.

COVID-19 cases are climbing again just as Texas students head back into classrooms, with health officials tracking new variants that are spreading nationwide.

Covid strikes in the summer more often than some other respiratory viruses with similar symptoms. If you’re coughing and sniffling during summer, you may be more likely to have Covid than the flu or respiratory syncytial virus — and you should reach for a Covid test, Dr. Al-Aly said.

Many of the pupils who sat their GCSEs this summer were in Year 6 when schools closed because of the pandemic.