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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff says he is “very skeptical” about prospects of people traveling at Easter but expects the situation will have changed by late May

Fast-spreading mutant versions of the coronavirus are powering another uptick in infections in Europe

Senators have worked through the night on the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 aid bill, dispensing with a variety of mostly Republican amendments in a marathon series of votes

California has cleared a path for fans to hit the stands at opening-day baseball games and return to Disneyland nearly a year after coronavirus restrictions shuttered major entertainment spots

California's governor has signed a law aiming to return public school students to classrooms

Senate Democrats have come out with their version of the $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill

Senate leaders and moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin have struck a deal over emergency jobless benefits, breaking a logjam that had stalled the party’s showpiece $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill

Senate Democrats have come out with their version of the $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill

The head of the vaccine program for Canada’s most populous province of Ontario expects to get every adult a first vaccine shot by June 20

The study also examined allowing dining at restaurants.

He was the fourth person in the U.S. to get the transplant due to COVID-19.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown will issue an executive order mandating that all public schools provide universal access to in-person learning by the month's end for students up to fifth grade and by mid-April for older students

More than 28 million Americans fully vaccinated against the coronavirus will have to keep waiting for guidance from federal health officials for what they should and shouldn’t do

A new national study adds strong evidence that mask mandates can slow the spread of the coronavirus, and that allowing dining at restaurants can increase cases and deaths

Canada is getting a fourth vaccine to prevent COVID-19 as the country’s health regulator has cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two

U.S. employers added a surprisingly robust 379,000 jobs last month, a sign the economy is strengthening as virus cases drop, vaccinations ramp up, Americans spend more and states ease business restrictions

Detroit this week turned down 6,200 doses of the newly authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine

The head of the World Health Organization is calling for patent rights to be waived until the end of the coronavirus pandemic so that vaccine supplies can be dramatically increased

President Joe Biden has a 60% approval rating for his job performance and even more backing from Americans for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Urgent calls for COVID-19 vaccine fairness are ringing through African countries as more are welcoming or rolling out doses from the global COVAX initiative

A prominent medical journal is apologizing for a tweet and part of a podcast episode about structural racism in health care

A new South Carolina law banning abortions will stay on hold following a judge’s order to extend a temporary restraining order

Educators in Dallas' most vulnerable zip codes will get vaccines first.

As the U.S. prioritizes teachers nationwide for coronavirus vaccines, states and many districts are not keeping track of how many school employees have received the shots

Anyone getting a mammogram or other cancer check soon after a COVID-19 vaccine should alert doctors, to prevent false alarms from a side effect

The Czech health minister says the government has approved his plan to order medical and other university and high school students to help out at hospitals struggling to cope the record numbers of COVID-19 patients

France says it could emulate Italy in blocking the export of COVID-19 vaccines from the European Union if that's what is needed to enforce its own contracts with drugs manufacturers

AP source: Canada clears Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose COVID-19 shot, giving it a fourth vaccine option

Top French and German officials are urging people to take the AstraZeneca vaccine, amid skepticism from some who fear it's not effective enough

The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times report that the true number of people who had died in nursing homes in New York was altered by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top aides in a July state Health Department report

Federal community vaccination centers are meant to reach at-risk groups.

Over 150,000 cases were confirmed during the month.

In some states, those who need the COVID-19 shot the most have no way to get it.

A voice shouts “Red Alert!” from the end of the corridor. An ambulance has just delivered the latest resident of an elderly care home in the Spanish capital. He's in a critical condition and time is of the essence. A well-practiced choreography immediately goes into motion, sending an adrenaline rush through the emergency ward in this suburban Madrid hospital. One by one, the medical team follows the steps they have revisited ever since the first coronavirus case was admitted to the Severo Ochoa Hospital one year ago. Only when the elderly man is stabilized and transferred to the so-called “red zone,” an area reserved for treating COVID-19, does the team slow down and go back to their computers. One year ago, staff had to deal with the exasperation of fighting an unknown enemy, the fear of bringing the virus back home, the scarcity of protective gear and the bodies lined up in the morgue. At the height of contagion, the corridors of this facility of nearly 400 beds were crowded...

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has resisted political pressure to drop her state's mask order

California will begin setting aside 40% of all vaccine doses for the state's most vulnerable neighborhoods in an effort to inoculate people most at risk from the coronavirus more quickly

The San Diego Zoo has vaccinated nine great apes for the coronavirus after a troop of gorillas in its Safari Park became infected

This April should look very different than the last for California’s nearly 40 million residents

The Senate has voted by the slimmest of margins to begin debating a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill

Antibodies show children testing positive are a small percentage of total cases.

The California Legislature has approved a $6.6 billion plan aimed at returning students to the classroom

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state health officials are coming under deeper scrutiny amid revelations that seniors in a wealthy enclave in Key Largo received hundreds of life-saving vaccinations as early as mid-January

Efforts to ban applying Kentucky’s death penalty to some people with severe mental illnesses have run into resistance

Senate Democrats have come out with their version of the $1.9 trillion COVID-relief bill

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is bucking the trend among Southern Republican governors to extend the state’s mandatory face mask order by a month

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey is extending the state’s mandatory face mask order by a month, a break from what Texas and neighboring Mississippi are doing

Over 500,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus since February 2020.

The leader of Canada’s most populous province is expressing irritation with the U.S. refusal to ship vaccines north of the border

"He started saying, 'Go back to China,' and started spitting all over me."

Thousands of older Americans are spending hours online or enlisting their grandchildren's help to sign up for a COVID-19 vaccine