A key federal advisory committee voted unanimously Thursday to recommend emergency authorization of a booster shot for older and more vulnerable recipients of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, a sign that millions of Americans who received their second Moderna dose at...
How many Americans absolutely refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine? How many never wear masks in public? How many insist that kids shouldn’t have to cover their faces in school? And how many would oppose vaccine requirements if the...
Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. parents (39 percent) know children who’ve been forced to quarantine because of COVID-19 since the start of this school year, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — and roughly a quarter (23 percent) say...
New COVID-19 cases are now falling across most of the country, and experts predict that the U.S. pandemic may finally be starting to peter out.While the virus may never fully disappear, it is expected to become endemic — just...
Pop quiz: Which U.S. state has vaccinated the largest share of its eligible population against COVID-19 — and has America’s lowest rate of new coronavirus cases as a result?Sorry, that was a trick question. The answer isn’t a state...
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, overruled her own advisory panel on Friday and recommended COVID-19 boosters not only for Americans over 65 and adults with underlying health conditions but also for a much...
On Monday, Pfizer announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is both safe and effective in children ages 5 to 11 — and no less of an authority than Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, predicted “there’s a really...
It’s long been one of President Biden’s favorite sayings: “Don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative.”Now, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, Americans believe by a 16-point margin that they are better off with...
On Friday, an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended authorizing a booster shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine solely for recipients who are 65 or older or face high risk of severe COVID-19. It declined to...
No aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic has polarized the American people quite like masks. And nothing better demonstrates the intensity of this polarization than the wildly different ways that America’s two most populous states, California and Texas, have responded...
