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Massimiliano Finzi/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 call centers and testing sites are closing across the United States as more Americans look to move on from the pandemic and with the emergency declaration set to end in May. In Rockland County, New York — just north of New York City — the call center closed […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the pandemic seemingly enters a new phase with the public health emergency ending in early May, many COVID data trackers are shutting down, no longer sharing data such as number of cases or hospitalizations, despite about 500 Americans dying each day from the disease. Experts interviewed by ABC News […]

Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City workers will no longer need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to be employed by the city, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. The mayor said the vaccine mandate for city employees will end Friday, nearly 15 months after his predecessor, Bill de Blasio, implemented […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — On May 11, the U.S. will no longer officially be in a COVID-19 emergency for the first time since the pandemic began three years ago. While hundreds of COVID-19 deaths are still reported each day in the U.S. — adding to a toll of more than one million — public […]

Jackyenjoyphotography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The World Health Organization said Monday that COVID-19 remains a public health emergency but the pandemic is at a “transition point.” The agency said its International Health Regulations Emergency Committee met on Friday to analyze data on the state of the pandemic. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “acknowledges the […]

Geo Piatt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — School-aged children faced significant learning loss during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, data shows. The finding shows that, even though we have developed new tools, like effective vaccines, to protect us from COVID-19, long-term ramifications persist. Children lost out on about one-third of what they usually would […]

Images By Tang Ming Tung/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine among school-aged children safely and effectively reduces COVID-19 infection risk as well as associated risks for developing multisystem inflammatory syndrome and COVID-19 related hospitalizations, new data suggests. This study adds evidence to existing studies and “supports the safety and […]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — COVID-19 remained the leading cause of law enforcement deaths in 2022 despite the number attributed to the virus dramatically declining. A new report released Wednesday by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund looked at preliminary data and found that 226 federal, state, tribal and local law enforcement officers died […]

Stefan Cristian Cioata/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Americans are taking to the roads and to the skies as they travel to see family and friends for the holidays. While the holidays are being celebrated semi-normally for the first time in more than two years, the threat of multiple respiratory viruses lingers. Although cases of the […]