Coronavirus

Certain N95 masks from Shanghai Dasheng should no longer be used by health care workers due to a failure to “implement, maintain, and control a quality management system,” the FDA said.

Disability rights groups and parents of children with disabilities want an immediate halt to a South Carolina law banning school districts from requiring face masks.

Several crew members were removed from a cargo ship and transported to San Francisco hospitals Monday afternoon after a number of them tested positive for COVID, officials confirmed.

The Education Department says it’s investigating five Republican-led states that have banned or limited mask requirements in schools, saying the policies could amount to discrimination against students with disabilities or health conditions.

Following the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a CDC advisory group voted on Monday to endorse the full authorization of the shot for Americans age 16 and older.

Job or income loss was the top reason Americans cried about money, a LendingTree survey said.

Restaurants in areas with high Delta variant cases are likely to be impacted.

The decision to remove the U.S. from a safe list of countries for nonessential travel reverses advice from June, when the European Council recommended lifting restrictions on U.S. travelers.

Liberty University ordered a campus-wide quarantine amid a COVID-19 spike. The school had previously lifted building masking and distancing requirements.

The drug has been reportedly flying off stores shelves in multiple states even though it has not been approved for treating or preventing COVID-19 in humans. 

A new study found the prevalence of obesity between the ages of 5 and 11 jumped by about 9.5% during the pandemic.

A man who led efforts in his community against wearing masks and other preventative measures during the pandemic has died from COVID-19, one month after being admitted to the emergency room.

A growing number of school board members are resigning or questioning their willingness to serve as meetings have devolved into shouting contests between deeply political constituencies over how racial issues are taught, masks in schools, and COVID-19 vaccines and testing requirements.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried says the Florida Poison Control Center is seeing an uptick in calls and cases from people taking Ivermectin, a medication used to treat parasites in cows and horses.

“There is no room to put these bodies," Dr. Scott Harris said in a news conference this week.

Health officials investigated a COVID-19 delta outbreak at an elementary school in California and found an unvaccinated, infected teacher who read aloud to students without a mask started the spread.

Health officials say with the overwhelming number of new cases, they’re not able to track every case and instead try to focus on infections that could have exposed large numbers of people or vulnerable groups.