COVID-19

Students at Norwich Free Academy say they are happy to be back in-person full time this school year, but the effects from last school year are hard to miss.

Norwich Free Academy has begun a new program to try and make up the learning gap created by remote learning during the pandemic.

“Most people who are pregnant are generally young and generally healthy, so they don’t really expect that if they were to get this infection, that they could be as sick as we are seeing,” one doctor said.

Like all emergency room physicians Dr. Salk suddenly found himself on the front-lines fighting a global pandemic.

The FDA still has not announced a decision on whether it will authorize Covid booster shots as a key CDC panel concludes its first day of a two-day meeting.

A Dallas-area couple says they were recently asked by a restaurant to either take off their face masks or leave the establishment.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has announced that masks will be required inside temples to limit the spread of COVID-19

Schools have welcomed students back to classrooms but face a new challenge: a shortage of teachers and staff the likes of which some districts say they have never seen

“Throughout this pandemic, even in the worst of times, we were not seeing this many younger people under 50 going into our hospitals,” Ohio Gov. DeWine said.

Vietnam’s shutdown of manufacturing due to Covid is “really bad timing,” said Zilingo CEO Ankiti Bose. “Holiday season shipments need to happen right away.”

The Fed is sticking with its near zero rate policy for now, yet borrowing costs may start to edge higher anyway.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb says expect a peak Covid season to hit every year, just like the flu, and the cost to the economy and worker productivity will be huge.

The coronavirus pandemic may have threatened small businesses across America, but these companies are rising up despite the challenges. In “Rebound,” we go behind the scenes of three Black- and AAPI-owned businesses as they fight to overcome pandemic shutdowns, staffing challenges and the delta variant. As the nation continues to battle challenges brought on by the novel coronavirus, companies are…

The organic food industry is a booming business. U.S. organic sales surged in 2020 by 12.4% to $61.9 billion.

Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the CDC may soon offer greater clarity on who will be eligible for Covid booster doses.

The company in August launched the “Max Your Vax” sweepstakes to reward front-line employees who provide proof they’re fully vaccinated.

George Holliday, the Los Angeles plumber who shot grainy video of four white police officers beating Black motorist Rodney King in 1991, has died.

Johnson & Johnson released data showing that a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response

Children as young as 5 years old could soon be eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine. Pfizer says its vaccine is safe and effective for children aged 5-11 and they plan to seek emergency use authorization from the FDA. Using a smaller dosage, in over 2,200 children during clinical trials, Pfizer said its vaccine produced a robust immune response. And now…

Pfizer announced Monday it will seek emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine to be used on children as young as 5 years old.

The coronavirus pandemic may have threatened small businesses across America, but these companies are rising up despite the challenges. In “Rebound,” we go behind the scenes of three Black- and AAPI-owned businesses as they fight to overcome pandemic shutdowns, staffing challenges and the delta variant. As the nation continues to battle challenges brought on by the novel coronavirus, companies are…