coronavirus pandemic

Federal health officials are issuing insurance coverage rules designed to deliver on the promise that every American will have access to free COVID-19 vaccines when they are approved.

Justin Turner violated coronavirus protocols when he celebrated on the field with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates and he refused instructions from security to leave the field, behavior that Major League Baseball said risked the safety of others.

Juan Martinez also had to quit his job to care for his five younger siblings full time. Angie Crouch reports Oct. 28, 2020.

A 19-year-old from Palmdale, who is raising his young siblings after losing his mom to COVID-19, has advice for people who still believe the pandemic is a hoax as the country moves into the second wave. Juan Martinez says his family is forever changed by the novel coronavirus, and he’s warning others to take it seriously. “I hope people...

Tupperware relied on social gatherings for explosive growth in the mid 20th century

One day after U.S. regulators canceled a trial for Eli Lilly’s experimental antibody treatment for being “unlikely to help” severe coronavirus patients, U.S. officials approved a $375 million deal for 300,000 doses of the same drug.

Adm. Brett Giroir, the Trump administration’s coronavirus testing czar, said the increase in U.S. cases isn’t just because of more testing for the disease, as President Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed, but a result of surging infections across the country. In an interview Wednesday on NBC’s TODAY show, Giroir, the assistant secretary of health and human services and a...

Asian shares are heading lower on worries about rising virus counts and Washington’s inability to deliver more aid to the economy

A record surge in coronavirus cases has pushed hospitals to the brink in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez, confronting health officials in Texas and Mexico with twin disasters in the metropolitan area of 3 million people

Two sisters accused of stabbing a West Side Chicago store security guard 27 times with a knife after he asked them to wear face masks and use hand sanitizer have been ordered held without bond

U.S. regulators have ended one of Eli Lilly’s COVID-19 antibody trials early after data suggested the drug was “unlikely to help” coronavirus patients recover.

Deaths per day from the coronavirus in the U_S_ are on the rise again, just as health experts had feared, and cases are climbing in nearly every state, despite assurances from President Donald Trump over the weekend that “we’re rounding the turn, we’re doing great.”

For Americans, 2020 was a year when fear and death commandeered front-row seats in life.

A massive surge in coronavirus cases in Europe is forcing a growing number of countries there to reimpose tough restrictions.

The coronavirus has reached into the heart of the White House once more, with a little more than a week before Election Day, as it scorches the nation and the president’s top aide says “we’re not going to control the pandemic.”

Pediatricians are urging the British government to reverse course and provide free meals for poor children during school holidays as the COVID-19 pandemic pushes more families into poverty

Vice President Mike Pence plans to maintain an aggressive campaign schedule this week despite his exposure to a top aide who tested positive for the coronavirus, the White House said Saturday.

Kristi Yamaguchi has been busy during the pandemic, NBC News reports. The Olympic-figure-skater-turned-philanthropist has been adapting to California’s remote-learning mandate in both her nonprofit work and her personal life. Yamaguchi’s Always Dream Foundation has been working to help increase the time kids spend reading during the coronavirus pandemic. The group provides tablets stocked with digital books, as well as internet access through...

College is a major milestone for many U.S. teens, the first time they’ve been on their own

Orange County reported 316 new cases of COVID-19 and four additional deaths Saturday, bringing the county’s totals to 58,326 cases with 1,444 fatalities.