Coronavirus

More than 8,000 active-duty service members were discharged for failure to obey a lawful order when they refused the vaccine.

Los Angeles County may once again bring back the indoor mask mandate. According to Director Barbara Ferrer, if the county reaches the CDC's high transmission category, masking may be required indoors – again.

Delivery company DoorDash is eliminating more than 1,200 corporate jobs, about 6% of its total workforce, saying it hired too many people when demand for its services increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Patient zero had gone on a 35-minute jog in a local park without a mask and ended up exposing 2,836 people to the virus, 39 of whom tested positive, health officials said.

Dr. Fauci, who is just weeks away from retirement, had a consistent, familiar message for Americans during his last time at the podium — get your COVID shot.

Only about 13% of U.S. adults have gotten the updated booster.

The average daily rate of new COVID-19 cases in LA County has risen to 100 infections per 100,000 residents, the county's health officer says, meaning the county is again "strongly recommending" that everyone wear masks in indoor public spaces.

"You can start thinking about getting COVID as almost as an accelerant to aging," the lead researcher warned.

Overall, the WHO has reported 629 million cases and 6.5 million deaths linked to the pandemic.

A Lino Lakes family was left with a $20,000 bill for the treatment of their toddler, who was hospitalized and placed on oxygen with COVID-19 and enterovirus. Insurance deemed the treatment not "medically necessary."

The WHO estimates 290,000 to 650,000 people worldwide die of flu-related causes every year. About 1.1 million people in the U.S. have died from COVID-19.

The needle-free vaccine is a mist that gets sucked in through the mouth.

Over 20 million people, including nearly 1 in 5 older people, have gotten the new vaccine, which was formulated to target the coronavirus variants most dominant in the United States.

Dr. Walensky, who is up-to-date with vaccination, is experiencing mild symptoms, the CDC said.

COVID-19 drove a dramatic increase in the number of women who died from pregnancy or childbirth complications in the U.S. last year, a crisis that has disproportionately claimed Black and Hispanic women as victims.

The Food and Drug Administration has authorized a booster dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Novavax.

The pace of retirements among baby boomers accelerated during the pandemic. Now, many of them are ready to return to the workforce.

Under 15 million Americans have received the latest booster shots.

Researchers at Boston University added a spike protein from the Omicron variant with the original Wuhan strain, which has an 80% kill rate