Coronavirus

The flu’s arrival is still about a month away, but health professionals say the latest shots are now available to protect yourself from whatever the annual season of misery might bring. “We don’t have any indication that a bad flu season is coming based on currently available data,” said Dr. Shira Doron, of Tufts Medical Center The CDC recommends...

The pharmaceutical executive who was once New York City’s Covid czar was fired Monday, days after he admitted to participating in “private gatherings” that were prohibited during the height of the pandemic, a federal filing shows, according to NBC News.

A new COVID variant is raising questions and capturing the attention of researchers heading into the fall and winter season. It’s called the XEC variant.

At least 40 athletes, including Team USA sprinter Noah Lyles, have tested positive for COVID-19 and other respiratory diseases at the 2024 Paris Games.

Infections are most likely rising in at least 39 states, driven in part by a trio of new variants.

Dr. William Dugal experienced total paralysis after developing Guillain-Barre syndrome. After a year of rehabilitation, he’s back to working as surgeon.

The World Health Organization is beginning its annual meeting with government ministers and other top envoys hoping to reinforce global preparedness for the next pandemic in the devastating wake of COVID-19.

Health officials are issuing a warning about an increase in COVID activity with a new variant called KP.2. Local doctors say the new strain, also known as the FLiRT variant, shouldn’t alarm you. But it does have them watching for a possible summer spike in cases because of its transmissability and abiity to evade prior immunity. “There’s a bunch...

A new report published by the cdc finds that there is no evidence that covid vaccines cause fatal cardiac arrest or other deadly heart problems.

Dozens of military veterans who lived in the Holyoke facility died of COVID-19, one of the deadliest outbreaks in a U.S. long-term care facility during the pandemic

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Bennett Walsh, the former head of the Holyoke Soldiers’ Home, is expected before a Massachusetts judge Tuesday for a change-of-plea hearing in his criminal case over the COVID outbreak that left dozens of elderly veterans dead in 2020.

Former Holyoke Soldiers’ Home Superintendent Bennett Walsh is set for a change-of-plea hearing in a criminal case over the deaths of dozens of elderly veteran residents of the facility in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Walsh’s change-of-plea hearing in the case — he faces five counts of neglect — is scheduled in Hampshire Superior Court for Tuesday afternoon….

U.S. marriages have rebounded to pre-pandemic levels with nearly 2.1 million in 2022.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says Americans who test positive for COVID no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

The latest COVID-19 vaccines are 54% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in adults.

Levels of COVID-19 in the Boston area surged to two-year highs during the recent holidays, according to the region’s latest wastewater data. The last time COVID levels were this high was during the omicron surge from the winter of 2021-2022, according to the most recent update on the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s COVID wastewater page. The amount of COVID...

Respiratory illnesses like COVID-19, RSV and the flu are on the rise across the country, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Massachusetts is no exception. About 16.7% of emergency room visits in the Bay State are currently due to respiratory virus infections, according to Dr. Larry Madoff, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Medical...

With cases of respiratory illnesses reaching a high level this winter, lines at emergency rooms are longer and medical facilities are taking precautions.

Not enough Americans are being vaccinated against Covid, the flu and RSV to stem rising numbers of the respiratory illnesses, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.