Coronavirus Pandemic

Walt Disney World says it’s suspending the Disney College Program indefinitely amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic

With as little as a month before school starts in some areas and COVID-19 diagnoses spiking in some of those same places, parents are wondering whether they have to choose between their jobs and their kids. After word reached parents in New York City that the department of education was considering a hybrid plan for reopening schools that would all...

More than 50,000 new cases were confirmed in the United States on Thursday.

North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un urged officials to maintain alertness against the coronavirus, warning that complacency risked “unimaginable and irretrievable crisis.”

Now seen as one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hotspots, Florida added another record number of new cases in a single day on Thursday, surpassing 10,000, NBC Miami reported. The state has seen a large increase in cases in the past week, with more than 50,000 confirmed in that span of time. In response, Miami Dade County announced Thursda...

Director of Health for the Central Connecticut Health District, Charles Brown, says he has been here before: frustrated about what he calls a lack of state funding for local public health systems. This year, in the middle of response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brown said that he learned that the state would not be providing health districts with the...

The coronavirus has mutated in a way that might help the pathogen spread more easily, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Thursday.

The Department of Labor is still seeing a large number of unemployment applications during the pandemic, officials said in an update Thursday. DOL officials said as of March 13, they have received around 675,000 applications for state unemployment benefits, not counting filings for extended benefits. They have processed 651,000 of those application...

The National Safety Council warned that the widespread use of hand sanitizer in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic could be dangerous over the holiday weekend for those setting off 4th of July fireworks.

Heading into Memorial Day weekend, California’s mood was celebratory. The state had avoided dire predictions of a coronavirus surge, hospitalizations were starting to decline and restaurants and most other businesses had reopened.

Connecticut continues to see a very low percentage of positive COVID-19 tests. On Thursday, just 74 people out of more than 11,461 tests performed were COVID-19 positive. That is a 0.6% positivity rate. The total number of coronavirus cases in Connecticut reach 46,646. Two more deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 4,326. The state saw a...

Vanilla Ice has indefinitely postponed a Texas concert that was drawing fierce criticism because of the coronavirus pandemic

American Airlines on Thursday told staff it has more than 20,000 employees it doesn’t need for its reduced fall schedule as the carrier and its competitors face weak demand for air travel during the coronavirus pandemic. The Fort Worth-based carrier and other U.S. airlines are urging employees to take buyouts or early retirement options to red...