COVID 19

At-home coronavirus tests are for sale in a drugstore in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City on Feb. 6.

The White House has a new plan for COVID-19 aimed at getting things back to normal

6:29pm March 02, 2022

by Tamara Keith

If you think you might have COVID-19 and are at high risk, you may be able to get tested at a clinic and treated with antiviral drugs right away, under the next phase of the pandemic plan.

COVID-19 at-home rapid test kits are seen in Los Angeles on Jan. 7.

Over-the-counter COVID tests will soon be free for Medicare recipients

7:40pm February 03, 2022

by Alana Wise

The Biden administration said that Medicare recipients will be able to get up to eight tests a month, free of charge.

A nurse administers a pediatric dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a girl at a L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination clinic at Los Angeles Mission College in the Sylmar neighborhood in Los Angeles, Ca., January 19, 2022.

Health & Safety

COVID-19 vaccine for young kids could be ready this month

7:42am February 01, 2022

Pfizer and BioNTech are expected to file for emergency use authorization with the Food and Drug Administration as early as Tuesday.

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Children draw on top of a canceled check prop during a rally in favor of the child tax credit in front of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C.

Families are in distress after the first month without the expanded child tax credit

10:45am January 21, 2022

by Deepa Shivaram

January is the first month since July 2021 that more than 36 million families in the U.S. did not receive money from the expanded child tax credit program. For some, the consequences are already dire.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern addresses a post-Cabinet press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, Oct. 4, 2021.

New Zealand will not impose lockdown when omicron hits

1:30am January 20, 2022

by The Associated Press

"This stage of the pandemic is different to what we have dealt with before. Omicron is more transmissible," Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said.

A man cries over his mother's grave in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery, in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, on Sept. 29, 2020. Iris Gonçalves Alves died at age 54 the previous day from COVID-19, according to the information on her burial record. During the

What happens when isolation goes beyond a pandemic

8:55am January 17, 2022

Photographer Raphael Alves documented how socioeconomic issues worsen the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

Teacher burnout and thinning substitute teacher rolls combined with the continuing fallout of the winter surge is pushing public school leaders to the brink of desperation. Lawmakers are responding by temporarily rewriting hiring rules.

Lawmakers are rewriting rules as schools grapple with teacher shortages

8:12pm January 14, 2022

by Vanessa Romo

Burnout and thinning substitute teacher rolls plus the fallout of the omicron surge is pushing school leaders to the brink of desperation. Lawmakers are respond rewriting hiring rules.

Trash sits out for collection on a Philadelphia street on Thursday. The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers that waste collection in Philadelphia and other cities has been delayed or suspended.

Garbage and recyclables pile up as omicron takes its toll on sanitation workers

5:17pm January 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, center, sits in a car as he leaves Parliament after attending the weekly Prime Ministers' Questions session in London, Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2022.

U.K. ministers are closing ranks around Boris Johnson amid calls for his resignation

6:13am January 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

Johnson apologized on Wednesday for attending a "bring your own booze" party in the garden of the prime minister's Downing Street office and residence in May 2020.

A volunteer receives daily necessities on behalf of residents under home quarantine in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Jan. 12, 2022.

China is doubling down on its 'zero-tolerance' COVID policy ahead of the Olympics

3:13am January 13, 2022

by The Associated Press

China is battling coronavirus outbreaks in six cities. More than 20 million people are in some form of lockdown.