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By Katia Hetter, CNN As Covid-19 cases continue to fall and state and local governments lift remaining pandemic restrictions, many offices are asking employees to return to in-person work. We know that 60% of workers with jobs that can be done from home say they’d like to work from home most or all of the
Continue ReadingBy Tasnim Ahmed and Steve Contorno, CNN The Florida Department of Health released new guidance Tuesday that says healthy children between the ages of 5 to 17 do not need to get the Covid-19 vaccine. “Based on currently available data, healthy children aged 5 to 17 may not benefit from receiving the currently available COVID-19
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN In the last year and a half, Donnell Hunter has missed his daughter’s first day of kindergarten, his son’s standout season of youth football, the birth of his grandson and countless other memories, all because of his long battle against Covid-19. The 43-year-old spent 549 days in hospitals and long-term acute
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN The man came to the ER at Charles Regional Medical Center in La Plata, Maryland, wide-eyed and scared. He couldn’t catch his breath. He was middle-aged, overweight and unvaccinated. He had also recently tested positive for Covid-19. Two weeks earlier, a doctor who had diagnosed the man during an urgent care
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN The rollout of the US government’s Covid-19 test-to-treat program is underway, with in-pharmacy clinics ordering shipments of Covid-19 antiviral medications and some locations expecting to offer the service within days. “We’ve had more than 1,000 pharmacy-based clinic sites register today, so that even exceeded our expectations for Day One of this
Continue ReadingBy Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Americans can now order a second set of free at-home Covid-19 rapid antigen tests from the federal government. Covidtests.gov, the website to sign up for the free tests, launched in January, when people could order a maximum of four tests per household. Households that took part in that first round can
Continue ReadingBy Brenda Goodman, CNN As states roll back masking requirements for students, a new study shows that masks helped cut Covid-19 infections in public K-12 schools that required them in the fall. The study comes from a partnership between the US Centers for Disease Control and the Arkansas Department of Health. Investigators looked at Covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Christine Koh, CNN Forming new friendships is important for mental well-being, my husband recently told me. He’s a therapist and shared this advice during a podcast with me about weathering pandemic stress and uncertainty. I balked, because I feel too overwhelmed by life to reach out to new people like I did in high
Continue ReadingBy Sandee LaMotte, CNN Wordle-bragging, arguably one of the newest forms of humble-bragging, has taken over social media. Solving the five-letter daily puzzle, and doing it in only three, two or even your first attempt (!) is a badge of pride for many. But does being good at Wordle mean you’re smarter than the average
Continue ReadingBy Travis Caldwell, CNN After Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo declared on Monday the state would issue guidance urging parents not to vaccinate their children against Covid-19, health experts and officials were quick to highlight the dangers of such a policy for individuals and for the country at large. Dr. Paul Offit, director of
Continue ReadingBy Jacqueline Howard, CNN Some of the nation’s leading public health experts, including former coronavirus advisers to the Biden administration, detail in a new report when and how the United States can transition out of the Covid-19 pandemic phase and back into “pre-pandemic routines and lives.” Among the recommendations in the report are for the
Continue ReadingCNN By Steve Contorno and Carma Hassan, CNN The Florida Department of Health will recommend against Covid-19 vaccinations for healthy children, the state’s top public health official said Monday, putting the state at odds with the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommended that children get vaccinated in November,
Continue ReadingBy Steve Contorno and Carma Hassan, CNN The Florida Department of Health will recommend against Covid-19 vaccinations for healthy children, the state’s top public health official said Monday, putting the state at odds with the guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC recommended that children get vaccinated in November, when
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN People who have even a mild case of Covid-19 may have accelerated aging of the brain and other changes to it, according to a new study. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature, is believed to be the largest of its kind. It found that the brains of those who
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN The global Covid-19 death toll surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Global daily deaths have been dropping quickly over the past month, down from about 11,000 a day in the second week of February to about 7,000 a day now — one of the lowest
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips, CNN The global Covid-19 death toll surpassed 6 million on Monday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Global daily deaths have been dropping quickly over the past month, down from about 11,000 a day in the second week of February to about 7,000 a day now — one of the
Continue ReadingBy Jaclyn Greenberg, CNN A few weeks shy of giving birth to my middle child, I went to what I thought was a routine ultrasound appointment near my local hospital. Later that afternoon, my son was born and whisked away to the newborn intensive care unit. My husband and I were shocked to learn that
Continue ReadingBy Elizabeth Cohen and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN From the very beginning of his presidency, Joe Biden has pledged to make sure communities hit hardest by Covid-19 will receive sound information about the virus and access to vaccinations. “Equity (and) equality” remain “at the heart” of the government’s responsibility, Biden said at a White House briefing
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN While the pandemic is not over, experts say the US may be in for, at the very least, a “near normal” spring and summer, based on new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. “I think the move from pandemic to endemic appears to be accelerating,” said Dr. William Schaffner,
Continue ReadingCNN, WKMG, WPTV By Jen Christensen, CNN While the pandemic is not over, experts say the US may be in for, at the very least, a “near normal” spring and summer, based on new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. “I think the move from pandemic to endemic appears to be accelerating,” said
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