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Sentenced to Death via Global Pandemic? ACLU Fights for Prisoner's Safety During COVID-19

ACLU Staff Lawyer Lalita Moskowitz discusses the unsafe and ripe conditions for outbreak among prisoners and staff within our penal facilities during the…

U.S. infectious disease experts fear a winter surge of respiratory illness, like the one that overloaded E.R.s with COVID patients in January 2021, could yet materialize this winter, with several circulating viruses wreaking havoc. So far, though, it looks like early peaks of RSV and flu are receding.

RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

Dr. Stephen Bradfute from UNM Medical School Offers Expertise in Knowledge of COVID-19

UNM Associate Professor and Infectious Disease Expert Dr. Stephen Bradfute speaks with Segment Host/Producer of Wake Up Call, MK Mendoza about the history…

Pfizer will submit new data to the FDA this week about trials of its vaccine for kids younger than 5 years old. Here, a girl holds her sister's hand as a nurse prepares to administer the COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Los Angeles. Kids 5 and older have been eligible for the vaccine since last November.

If Pfizer's data pans out, when will little kids get the COVID-19 vaccine?

Pfizer plans to submit new data to the Food and Drug Administration this week, bringing families with young children one step closer to a long-awaited vaccine.

A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is prepared during a pop-up vaccine clinic at Cristo Rey Church in East Austin on July 24, 2021.

Moderna wants the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6

No deaths were reported in tests, and there were no signs of myocarditis, or heart inflammation, as a side effect.

Liang from Beijing, center, looks on as his 82-year-old grandmother is brought in a casket to the Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 22, 2022. Liang's grandmother had been unvaccinated when she came down with coronavirus symptoms, and had spent her final days hooked to a respirator in a Beijing ICU.

China has stopped publishing daily COVID data amid reports of a huge spike in cases

China's National Health Commission said in a statement it would no longer publish daily data and that "from now on, the Chinese CDC will release relevant COVID information for reference and research."

Musicians gather for a Saturday morning jam session at the Savoy Music Center in Eunice, La.

COVID-19 Hits Hard For South Louisiana's Cajun Musicians

Cajun life is all about getting together to be with people to celebrate what you love: music, food and camaraderie. But the pandemic has shut that life down.

A pastor is administered with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine in May, during a gathering of a group of interfaith clergy members, community leaders and officials at the Washington National Cathedral, to encourage faith communities to get the COVID vaccine.

1 in 10 Americans say the COVID-19 vaccine conflicts with their religious beliefs

A new survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Interfaith Youth Core shows most Americans believe too many people are using religious beliefs as a reason to not get vaccinated.

A major gathering of anti-vaccine activists will take place this weekend at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. While the hotel, seen here, encourages guests to wear masks, they are not mandatory.

While COVID still rages, anti-vaccine activists will gather for a big conference

Among the attendees are people who also spread misinformation about 2020 presidential election and other conspiracy theories.

The CDC will stop reporting new daily COVID infections and rely instead on hospitalization data to monitor the severity of the COVID.

CDC to stop reporting new COVID infections as public health emergency winds down

The CDC says the coming end of the public health emergency means the agency will be scaling back the data it routinely collects and releases about the pandemic.

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