Recent outbreaks of COVID-19 have been detected following football events in the United States, and games have the potential to become “superspreader” events. Because the National Football...

TUESDAY, Sept. 29, 2020 — The U.S. government will start distributing millions of rapid COVID-19 tests to states this week with the goal of reopening schools. About 6.5 million tests will be shipped...

The number of U.S. coronavirus cases passed 7 million on Friday, with California the hardest hit state so far in a pandemic that has crippled the country for more than six months. The United States has...

(HealthDay)—Parents who choose to forgo or delay their children’s vaccinations may quickly find themselves without a pediatrician. Just over half (51%) of pediatric offices in the United States...

(HealthDay)—More than 500,000 U.S. children had been diagnosed with COVID-19 as of early September, with a sizable uptick seen in recent weeks, a new report reveals. There were 70,630 new child cases...

(HealthDay)—With millions of American children soon returning to school, a new study shows that at least 97,000 children were infected with COVID-19 during the last two weeks of July. According to the...

The first documented cases of U.S. household cats infected with COVID-19 have emerged in New York state, a new government report shows. Two cats—one in Nassau County, the other in Orange County—appear...

A Harvard public health professor warned Tuesday that the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. could rank among the world’s worst if the nation fails to take steps to ease the health and economic impacts...

THURSDAY, Feb. 13, 2020 — After charting a slight decline in growth earlier this week, new coronavirus cases in China jumped by almost 15,000 in a single day, while the death count spiked to 1,367,...