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While vaccines are helping to curb the pandemic, easier and better treatments are needed, especially as virus variants spread.

More than a third of the passengers on flight UK6395—52 so far—have tested positive, the most from any plane arriving in the city.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued updated guidelines for youth summer camps during COVID-19 on Saturday that address physical distancing, added vaccination information, removed guidance on physical barriers, and updated considerations for screening testing and contact tracing.

Each year the U.S. approves dozens of new uses for cancer drugs based on early signs that they can shrink or slow the spread of tumors.

The director of the National Institutes of Health said on Sunday predicted that the US could reach “herd immunity” from COVID-19 at 70 to 85 percent of people vaccinated or previously infected — and said some regions of the country are getting close to that.

A top European Union official said Sunday that Americans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 should be able to travel to Europe by summer, easing existing travel restrictions.

Around 30% of adults in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated, with around 50% of adults having received at least the first shot.

A new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology challenges widespread social distancing guidelines, asserting that the "six-foot rule" is inadequate in mitigating indoor transmission of COVID-19.

As the coronavirus pandemic drags on into year two and U.S. eligibility for vaccines rises, a new Fox News poll finds one in five registered voters plan to skip the shot.

Federal health officials lifted a pause on use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Friday following an 11-day review and the recommendation of a panel of experts who determined it met safety standards despite rare instances of severe blood clots.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advisory committee is recommending that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine resume rollout, but include new language on the product’s emergency use authorization (EUA) warning remote risks of serious blood clots.

White House officials on Friday warned that the current coronavirus crisis in India is an example of what could happen elsewhere should the pandemic go uncontrolled. 

Federal health officials have identified several additional cases of a rare but serious blood clot in people who received the J&J COVID-19 vaccine. 

India put oxygen tankers on special express trains as major hospitals in New Delhi begged on social media on Friday for more supplies to save COVID-19 patients who are struggling to breathe.

Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned down new shipments of the vaccine at least once over the past month. And in Mississippi, officials asked the federal government to ship vials in smaller packages so they don’t go to waste.

The Biden administration has taken the first step toward ending an emergency exception that allowed hospitals to ration and reuse N95 medical masks, the first line of defense between frontline workers and the deadly coronavirus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is looking into whether people should continue to wear masks outdoors to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the agency’s boss said Thursday.

The U.S. 7-day daily average coronavirus death toll is now at 691, indicating a slight decrease from the previous week and signifying a “number that’s going in the right direction,” Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director said Friday.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have found evidence that humans infected with SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus, can pass the virus to cats. Researchers from the University of Glasgow when screening the country’s feline population identified two such cases of cats contracting the virus from their infected owners.

After a harrowing, stressful year manning the frontlines during the coronavirus pandemic, some three in 10 health care workers are considering leaving the field, according to a nationally representative survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Washington Post.