The website, COVIDTests.gov, allows people to order four at-home tests per household and have them delivered by mail. But the tests won’t arrive for seven to 12 days.
If you’re checking up on local cases on the Texas Department of State Health Services COVID-19 dashboard, expect to see active or recovered cases no longer.
Sterman Young and his wife Virgie have been married for more than 80 years. The couple from Post, Texas both were diagnosed with COVID-19 and have been separated since. After many days apart, they were reunited thanks to the team at Covenant Health.
Public health officials have warned it is highly unlikely COVID-19 will be eliminated and say it will continue to kill people, though at much lower levels, even after it becomes endemic.
Despite signs omicron causes milder disease on average, the unprecedented level of infection spreading through the country, with cases still soaring in many states, means many vulnerable people will become severely sick.
His adult children explained he had three chest tubes and over a dozen blood transfusions, in addition to kidney failure, lung failure, multiple cases of pneumonia, among other complications.
Ivermectin is approved for use by people and animals for some parasitic worms, head lice and skin conditions. The drug is not approved for treating COVID-19.
Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before the vaccine allowed many of them to reopen to visitors last year. But the wildly contagious variant has dealt them a setback.
The White House is pushing ahead with efforts to prod people to get COVID-19 shots after the Supreme Court put a halt to the administration’s sweeping vaccinate-or-test plan for large employers.
U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
So far, the Marine Corps has received 3,350 requests for religious exemptions to the mandatory vaccine as of Thursday, and denied 3,212. No information about the two specific approvals was provided, due to privacy reasons.
The omicron variant is leading to large amounts of new COVID-19 cases. Dr. Ed and Dr. Patton discussed different types of masks and what are the most effective.
The recent spike in COVID-19 cases has given rise to phony websites and fake in-person testing sites used to collect personal and insurance information.
Due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases, the Angelina County Sheriff’s Office has temporarily suspended all inmate visitation and volunteer services.
The Canadian government clarified on Thursday that all truckers who enter Canada must be fully vaccinated, whether they are Canadian citizens or foreign nationals.
Chicago teachers backed an agreement dictating COVID-19 safety protocols in the nation’s third-largest school district Wednesday, after classes were canceled for five days due to a standoff over remote learning and virus testing.
