(NEW YORK) — The United States marked a new stage in the government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic when President Joe Biden announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that “COVID-19 no ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- As California becomes the first U.S. state to adopt an "endemic" approach to COVID-19, we take a closer look at what becoming "endemic" means and if virus levels have truly ...

With lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine debates and over 6.9 million deaths worldwide, COVID-19 has held the world’s attention since January 2020, when it was declared a public health emergency of ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control, there's another thing to worry about when visiting Florida: Leprosy. In a recent research letter published on the CDC website, the authors say there is ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- It is "reasonably likely" to expect the pandemic to draw to a close as soon as a month from today, though COVID-19 is likely to stay, according to UCSF's Chair of the Department of ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — The COVID-19 public health emergency is officially over. COVID-19 has transitioned from a pandemic to an endemic. For the scientists and doctors on the frontlines of this ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The COVID-19 case rate across the U.S. is steadily falling, down by nearly 36 percent in the last week, and experts say we are past the peak of the omicron variant. Could ...

Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. Ducharme is a contributor to TIME. As a health journalist, I've written the phrase “the COVID-19 pandemic” more times than I care to count in the four years since ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The first omicron variant in Illinois was tested at a Rush University Medical Center lab in December after sequencing COVID samples from across the city of Chicago. "Since then it has ...

Five years after the pandemic began, covid-19 is now more consistent with an endemic disease, U.S. health experts said. It has become similar to influenza — an endemic disease — in terms of the risk ...