NEW YORK (AP) — Lani Muller doesn't have to visit a doctor's office to help test an experimental COVID-19 vaccine — she just climbs into a bloodmobile-like van that parks on a busy street near her New York City neighborhood. The country is rightly fixated on the chaotic rollout of the first two authorized vaccines [...]
Scientists are reporting troubling signs that some recent mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 may modestly curb the effectiveness of two current vaccines, although they stress that the shots still protect against the disease. Researchers expressed concern about the preliminary findings, in large part because they suggest that future mutations could undermine vaccines. The [...]
Ohio State University researchers have recorded progress in a statewide battle against infant mortality and other adverse pregnancy outcomes in black communities. University officials announced earlier this week that an Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center program called Moms2B has resulted in a reduction in such outcomes in minority communities, which are often disproportionately affected [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — As the coronavirus swept across the globe last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention faced a challenge unlike any it’s faced in its previous 73 years. Now a new CDC director is arriving as the pandemic is in its deadliest phase yet and the nation's largest-ever vaccination campaign is [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — COVID-19 came early for Catherine Busa, and it never really left. The 54-year-old New York City school secretary didn't have any underlying health problems when she caught the coronavirus in March, and she recovered at her Queens home. But some symptoms lingered: fatigue she never experienced during years of rising at [...]
GENEVA — A panel commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner. In a report issued to the media this week, the panel led by [...]
DENVER (AP) — Howard Jones, who's 83, was on the phone for three to four hours every day trying to sign up for a coronavirus vaccine. Jones, who lives alone in Colorado Springs, Colo., doesn't have the internet, and that's made it much more difficult for him to make an appointment. It took him about [...]
State leaders around the country are increasingly pushing for schools to reopen this winter — pressuring them, even — as teachers begin to gain access to the vaccine against the raging pandemic. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine offered to give vaccinations to teachers at the start of February, provided their school districts agree to resume at [...]
Since the pandemic's descent, they have generally been viewed as among those at higher risk — older Americans, some of them medically vulnerable, figuring out how to navigate life in a COVID-saturated, increasingly isolated world. That's one type of health — physical. When it comes to mental and emotional health, older adults are showing resilience [...]
The country is entering the second month of the biggest vaccination drive in history with a major expansion of the campaign, opening football stadiums, major league ballparks, fairgrounds and convention centers to inoculate a larger and more diverse pool of people. After a frustratingly slow rollout involving primarily health care workers and nursing home residents, [...]