Two years into the pandemic, nearly half of U.S. residents (43%) say they feel “worse” about their “fellow Americans,” according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll. Just 10% say they feel “better.”As Omicron recedes and most Americans seem eager...
LOS ANGELES — This week, America’s largest public school district — New York City — finally lifted its COVID-19 mask mandate, allowing K-12 students to choose whether they want to cover their faces in class.Meanwhile, America’s second-largest public school...
WASHINGTON — The morning after President Biden vowed in his State of the Union address to move beyond the emergency stage of the coronavirus pandemic, his administration unveiled a comprehensive strategy to usher in what many have called a...
Amid plummeting COVID-19 rates, the Biden administration eased its indoor mask recommendations Friday for about 70 percent of Americans, including most schoolchildren — a shift that could hasten the end of mask mandates in the United States.Before Friday, more...
LOS ANGELES — On Wednesday, California — the most COVID-cautious state in the country — finally lifted its indoor mask mandate.But Los Angeles, the state’s largest city, has refused to follow suit. According to L.A. County Public Health Director...
WASHINGTON — On Tuesday, Denmark lifted all of its remaining coronavirus restrictions — a moment that millions of Americans have been longing for, especially as the Omicron wave that began in December appears to be subsiding.Recent polling indicates that...
Are Americans “done with COVID,” as the journalist Bari Weiss said she was on last week's “Real Time With Bill Maher,” triggering a frenzy of commentary and controversy?The short answer is: not yet. According to the latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll,...
LOS ANGELES — If you’re the kind of parent who cares about sending your kids to school in person, there was no worse place to be last school year than Los Angeles.And there’s probably no better place to be...
Over the last six weeks, the hypertransmissive Omicron variant of the coronavirus has generated its fair share of bad news in the United States.Daily COVID-19 case counts more than three times higher than ever before.A record number of new hospitalizations, pushing...
COVID-19 updates. View the latest news.Earlier this week, as the hypermutated Omicron variant propelled U.S. COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations to record highs, two of America’s most prominent governors — California Democrat Gavin Newsom and Florida Republican Ron DeSantis...
