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  • FILE – Medical staff prepare to move the body of a deceased COVID-19 patient to a funeral home van at the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April 2022 confirms that 2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)Health

    COVID-19 and overdoses contributed to the deadliest year in U.S. history, new CDC study shows

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • Firefighters from the Marins-Pompiers of Marseille extract samples of sewage water at a retirement home in Marseille, southern France, Thursday Jan. 14, 2021, to trace concentrations of COVID-19 and the highly contagious variant that has been discovered in Britain. As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S.—and wondering how long it will take to detect.Health

    Experts worry about how the U.S. will see the next COVID surge coming

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • A shopper at a grocery store wearing a proactive maskHealth

    The CDC says healthy people can stop wearing masks in places where transmission and hospitalizations are low

    By Carla K. Johnson, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • COVID-19 vaccines immunityHealth

    Prior infection, vaccines provide best protection from COVID-19, CDC study finds

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • CDC panel approves booster shots for young teensHealth

    CDC panel approves Pfizer boosters for younger teens

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 04: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky testifies before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 04, 2021 in Washington, DC. Earlier this week Walensky gave final approval for the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Health

    As Omicron surges, the CDC says Americans who test positive for COVID should shorten their isolation from 10 days to five

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 23: A patie takes a COVID test outside District Urgent Care on December 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. The City of District of Columbia is distributing free test kits to local residents prior to the holidays as COVID case numbers have surged to a new high. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Health

    Here’s what to do if you test positive for COVID-19

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • People outside of a COVID testing tent in New York City.Health

    Omicron now accounts for 73% of US COVID cases after spreading at lightning speed

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this March 26, 2021, file photo a member of the Philadelphia Fire Department prepares a dose of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site setup in Philadelphia. U.S. health officials say Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine may pose a “small possible risk” of a potentially dangerous neurological reaction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday, July 12 that it has received reports of 100 people who got the shot developing an immune system disorder that can causes muscle weakness and occasionally paralysis. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Health

    CDC panel recommends Pfizer and Moderna vaccines over Johnson & Johnson

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Jamie Blank (L) holds her son, Ari Blank's hand as he receives the Pfizer vaccine.Health

    CDC advisory panel recommends COVID vaccine for kids 5 to 11

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Moderna vaccineHealth

    The CDC will allow people to choose what booster shot they get—no matter what COVID vaccine they got before

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • FILE – In this Jan. 15, 2021, file photo, Dr. Yomaris Pena, Internal Medicine Physician with Somos Community Care at a COVID-19 extracts the last bit of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine out of a vial so as not to waste it at a vaccination site at the Corsi Houses in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York. An increasing number of COVID-19 vaccination sites around the U.S. are canceling appointments because of vaccine shortages in a rollout so rife with confusion and unexplained bottlenecks. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)Health

    Some health experts fear COVID boosters will hurt efforts to reach the unvaccinated

    By Mike Stobbe and The Associated Press
  • President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)Health

    Biden urges eligible Americans to get COVID booster shots ASAP

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Elderly woman getting COVID-19 vaccineHealth

    CDC director overrules panel to offer COVID booster shots to health care workers

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine is prepared for administration at a vaccination clinic for homeless people, hosted by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and United Way on September 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. – Covid-related hospitalizations across Los Angeles County fell below 1,000 for the first time since late-July as a steady decline continues from a mid-August peak of nearly 1,800. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP)Health

    FDA backs Pfizer COVID-19 boosters for seniors and high-risk

    By Matthew Perrone, Lauran Neergaard, and others