Reputable news organizations such as Reuters, Agence France-Presse (AFP) and South African news website News24 debunked the ...

During the COVID-19 crisis, Mayo Clinic's Risk Communications Program built a pandemic toolkit to help partners enhance messaging, meet community needs and advise regional decision-makers.

Six years ago, the Director-General of the World Health Organization sounded the highest global alarm available under international law at the time, declaring the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease ...

Most Americans with health insurance should not have to pay out of pocket for Covid-19 vaccines, even after the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added an extra hurdle to getting the shot.

With fall, and by extension, respiratory illness season, underway, COVID-19 cases have continued to fluctuate nationwide. Some regions of the United States are experiencing "very high" and "high" ...

The Better Business Bureau says it's gotten numerous reports of a scam impersonating the US Department of Health and Human Services. Recipients of the text message are told they must take a "mandatory ...

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed essential weaknesses in mental health systems and intensified existing inequities, highlighting the need for a comprehensive assessment of policy responses and ...

The BNT162b2 KP.2 vaccine effectively prevents severe COVID-19 outcomes, including hospitalizations and ED or UC visits.

More than half of veterans are at higher risk of COVID-19, officials said. As the network of hospitals run by the Department of Veterans Affairs braces to handle a growing load of novel coronavirus ...

Researchers at The University of Osaka have found that individuals in Japan who have been infected with COVID-19 are more ...

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