Health

Joe Cavaretta/Sun Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — There is growing pushback among the health care community over Florida’s decision to advise against vaccinating healthy children for COVID-19, with an increasing number of health officials coming forward to strongly criticize the move. On Monday, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo announced […]

Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City dropped several of its COVID-19 mandates on Monday, including mask and vaccine requirements. Restaurants, bars and other indoor public areas — including gyms and entertainment venues — will no longer be required to ask people for proof of vaccination under the “Key to NYC” vaccine […]

Courtesy Kyaira White (NEW YORK) — As many states relax COVID-19 protocols, birthing practices continue to be impacted by the virus nearly two years after the World Health Organization declared it a global pandemic. Kyaira White is set to give birth for a second time during the pandemic, with her baby due in late spring. “I […]

Luis Alvarez/Getty Images/Stock Photo (NEW YORK) — Recently, an update to the national COVID-19 strategy was released, designed to manage the virus so most Americans can return to daily life without disruption. The country is moving to a new phase in which the COVID-19 threat changes from “pandemic” to “endemic.” That means the virus will likely […]

Thir Sakdi Phu Cxm / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Black New Yorkers were hit disproportionately hard during the omicron wave compared to white New Yorkers, according to a new analysis from the city’s Department of Health & Mental Hygiene published Wednesday. Black New York City residents were hospitalized for COVID-19 at a rate more […]

Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In July 2020, as the country faced its first summer wave of coronavirus cases, a group of physicians stood in front of the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court and held their first self-titled “White Coat Summit” to tout the unproven benefits of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 […]

Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Florida’s state Senate on Thursday passed a bill that bans abortions after 15 weeks, the same gestational limit currently being reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. The bill, HB 5, which passed the state House in February, is expected to move quickly to the desk of Republican Gov. Ron […]

Elena Hung and her 7-year-old daughter, Xiomara, of Maryland. Xiomara was born with a number of medical conditions affecting her airway, lungs, heart and kidneys. – Elena Hung (NEW YORK) — When coronavirus shut down the nation nearly two years ago, 7-year-old Xiomara Hung and her family were quick to retreat to their Maryland home […]

Morsa Images/Getty Images (ATLANTA) — The gap in COVID-19 vaccination uptake between rural and urban Americans is continuing to widen, a federal report published Thursday found. As of Jan. 31, 2022, 75.4% of people aged five and older living in urban counties have received at least one dose of the vaccine, according to the Centers […]

Getty Images/Morsa Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — When the first coronavirus vaccines were shipped out across the country more than a year ago, millions of Americans waited eagerly for their turn to get a shot, hoping that it would lead to a return to normal. In the spring of 2021, after every adult became eligible for the […]