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Americans couldn’t resist the urge to gather for Thanksgiving

South Korea has recorded 629 new coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours, the highest daily tally in about nine months

The White House coronavirus response coordinator says Americans must not gather indoors with outsiders or take off their masks at any time when they are outdoors -- even when they are eating and drinking

A World War II veteran from Alabama has recovered from COVID-19 in time to mark his 104th birthday

Joe Biden says he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president

California Gov. Gavin Newsom says most of the state will likely be under a new stay-at-home order within a day or two

States are drafting plans for who gets the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available this month, as the nation’s death toll from the pandemic surpassed 3,100 in a single day for the first time

With weeks to go before vaccine delivery, misinformation and conspiracy theories are flooding social media. Facebook says they’re fighting back, but experts say the problem is bigger.

Despite the pandemic’s toll on health care workers, medical school applications are spiking in what some are calling the "Fauci Effect."

Lawyers for a church with more than 160 congregations across California say they will seek an immediate court order allowing indoor worship after the Supreme Court told a lower federal court to reexamine state coronavirus restrictions on church services

Authorities say a couple were arrested at a Hawaii airport after traveling on a flight from the U.S. mainland despite knowing they were infected with COVID-19

Dr. Joseph Varon, who was seen in a viral image hugging his COVID-19 patient, describes the isolation of the sick and the compassion of their exhausted health care workers.

Dr. Carlos Araujo-Preza, a pulmonologist, was 51 years old.

Up soon for President-elect Joe Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages

The U_N_ chief is warning that the social and economic impact of COVID-19 “is enormous and growing.”

Three former presidents say they’d be willing to publicly take a coronavirus vaccine, once one becomes available, to encourage all Americans to get inoculated against a disease that has already killed more than 275,000 people nationwide

Hospitals are under pressure ahead of a possibly dark winter.

Officials across the country have apologized for not heeding rules or guidance.

States are crafting plans that decide who should be at the front of the line for a COVID-19 vaccine and where the doses should be shipped once the federal government provides emergency authorization, as early as next week

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine to the right people could change the course of the pandemic in the United States

Los Angeles religious leaders have managed to conduct their annual ceremony honoring those who died with no one to claim their bodies by streaming it live on Facebook this year

IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort that used targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information associated with a U.N. initiative for distributing coronavirus vaccine to developing countries

Portugal is aiming to vaccinate almost 1 million people against the coronavirus between January and April at the latest, and perhaps by the end of February, depending on the pace of vaccine deliveries

Buenos Aires has long had a thriving cafe scene and its many historic cafes and bars are officially recognized as “cafes notables” for their contribution to the capital’s culture

Addressing the grim record-breaking COVID-19 numbers as well as questions and concerns related to the upcoming vaccine.

A city in northern Greece hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic says it will scrap plans to set up Christmas decorations and a nativity scene this year to donate the money to the local hospital's intensive care ward

Belgium is planning to launch a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on a limited scale starting in early January

Belgium is planning to launch a COVID-19 vaccination campaign on a limited scale starting in early January

The coronavirus pandemic is preventing Pearl Harbor survivors from attending an annual ceremony to remember those killed in the 1941 attack

The U.S. has recorded over 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring

The pandemic is threatening to wipe out the educational progress made by many of the nation’s 7 million students with disabilities

Turkey’s health minister has announced a plan to start using an experimental Chinese COVID-19 vaccine later this month amid a surge in infections and deaths

Hundreds of thousands of masked students in South Korea, including 41 confirmed COVID-19 patients, have taken the highly competitive university entrance exam despite a viral resurgence that forced authorities to toughen social distancing rules

Africa’s top public health official says 60% of the continent’s population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next two to three years

Secrecy and cronyism crippled China’s testing capacity in the early days of the outbreak, an Associated Press investigation has found

The European Court of Human Rights has dismissed a legal complaint from a French citizen who claimed the anti-COVID 19 measures put in place by the French government were insufficient

Hundreds of thousands of masked students in South Korea, including 35 COVID-19 patients, are taking the country's highly competitive university entrance exam despite a viral resurgence that has forced authorities to toughen social distancing rules

Secrecy and cronyism crippled China’s testing capacity in the early days of the outbreak, an Associated Press investigation has found

Hundreds of thousands of masked students in South Korea, including 35 confirmed COVID-19 patients, have taken the highly competitive university entrance exam despite a viral resurgence that forced authorities to toughen social distancing rules

Dr. Anthony Fauci talks with ABC News’ Linsey Davis about the pandemic during the holidays, the newest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines and vaccines currently being prepared.

The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts the country is about to go through “the most difficult time in the public health history of the nation.”

Celebrity chef and restaurant owner Tom Colicchio discusses how small restaurants are struggling and what the Restaurants Act could do for these businesses.

With hospitalizations hitting new peaks every day, medical providers are desperately trying to add beds and find nurses and doctors

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel recommends health care workers and nursing home residents receive the vaccine first.

The COVID-19 vaccine will start being rolled out next week in the U.K. after an emergency use approval.

Health care workers video call families to help dying patients say goodbye.

News that British regulators have granted emergency authorization to the first rigorously tested coronavirus vaccine marked a turning point in the global effort curb the pandemic

The New York City sheriff's office says a bar owner who was providing indoor service in defiance of coronavirus restrictions has been arrested

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a “large-scale” COVID-19 immunization campaign to start by late next week

A labor agency in Washington state has announced that it will increase workers’ compensation rates for Amazon fulfillment centers, deeming them more hazardous than other types of warehouses