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COVID-19 vaccines are saving an untold number of lives, but they can’t stop the chaos when a hugely contagious new mutant bursts on the scene, leading people to wonder: Will we need boosters every few months? A new vaccine recipe? A new type of shot altogether?
 

More than two years into this pandemic, the United States death toll is the highest in the world. The country is closing in on 900,000 deaths, and its death rate is alarming -- particularly given that the U.S. was the one of the first to have the vaccine.
 

Officials nationwide are trying to stay ahead of a proliferation of Covid-19 test sites that they say are offering fraudulent services to the public.
 

Two years into the pandemic, the coronavirus is killing Americans at far higher rates than people in other wealthy nations, a sobering distinction to bear as the country charts a course through the next stages of the pandemic.
 

Instead, better outcomes appear to have gone hand in hand with high levels of trust in government and other citizens. Perception of government corruption was correlated with worse outcomes. Researchers measured trust with polling data from the World Values Survey and Gallup.
 

Josh Sharfstein discusses expected changes to public policy on Covid-19 as deaths begin decline and Covid zero in China ahead of the Winter Olympics. 

A recent study of rapid tests suggests these products are often not catching positive Omicron cases before becoming infectious. What does that mean for schools?

Getting more young school-age children vaccinated is crucial for ending the pandemic, public health officials say, and many are focusing on that group.

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January is poised to be Maryland’s most deadly month of the coronavirus pandemic, according to state data, even as the number of new infections reported daily trends downward.
 

As the coronavirus pandemic enters its third year, a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research indicates that only a small minority of Americans need covid-19 to be largely eliminated before they will regard the health emergency as over.
 

Scientists are working to develop a "pan-coronavirus" vaccine—one that offers protection against multiple variants of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19. The hope is that such a vaccine could one day head off any coronavirus—not only emerging variants that cause Covid-19, but also some common colds and novel coronaviruses we haven't identified yet.
 

It depends, but vaccinated people should generally wait five days after exposure before taking an antigen test. Here’s why