Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East Coast as it tracks north this week. On Tuesday, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency to prepare for the life-threatening rip currents and storm surge expected to affect the coastal region.

WHO, AMA, AAP and existing standards recommend that people who have never received a COVID-19 vaccine, are age 65 and older, are immunocompromised, live at a long-term care facility, are pregnant, breastfeeding, trying to get pregnant, and/or want to avoid getting long COVID-19, should get the vaccine, especially.

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

Getting the flu may result in worse consequences than just being bedridden for a few days, according to new research.

Many of the pupils who sat their GCSEs this summer were in Year 6 when schools closed because of the pandemic.

Covid strikes in the summer more often than some other respiratory viruses with similar symptoms. If you’re coughing and sniffling during summer, you may be more likely to have Covid than the flu or respiratory syncytial virus — and you should reach for a Covid test, Dr. Al-Aly said.

The CDC released a new report this month that shows Coronavirus cases are growing in states across the country, and Pennsylvania is one of them.

Women infected with COVID experienced about five additional years of blood vessel aging, even if they had a mild case, according to results published Aug. 17 in the European Heart Journal. If a woman landed in the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID, her blood vessels received up to 10 years of premature aging, results show.