Health spending in the United States jumped by 7.5% in 2023, a considerable rise from 2022's jump of 4.6%. Apart from the COVID-19 pandemic's 2020 inception, resulting in an over 10% jump, it is ...

Long Covid is most likely following a severe illness but can also develop in people who only had mild symptoms. A healthy 30-year-old may not be at risk of severe disease or hospitalization, ...

COVID is continuing to evolve very rapidly, and every three or four months we get a new COVID variant. This summer, the dominant strains of COVID are KP.3.1.1, ...

After federal health officials made abrupt changes to US Covid-19 vaccine recommendations for pregnant women last month, there’s new confusion and uncertainty about who can get the shots — and ...

memory is of a headline. What followed was panic, disruption and mass death. Covid may feel as if it’s behind us. But we’re living in the branch of history it created. And its contours are ...

An analysis of 435 studies from around the world in 2019-2020 found that pregnant and recently pregnant women who were infected with COVID were more likely to end up in intensive care units, be on ...

Long covid patients are desperate for treatments. These trials may help. Some trials are focusing on drugs that target the immune system, which is affected by different pathways to long covid.

How the body responds to COVID-19 will vary from one person to the next, and the same goes for the recovery period from the virus.. How long it’ll take to recover from COVID-19 is always going ...

A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder ...

Summer wave of COVID-19 hitting U.S. 04:33 More than half of states are now seeing "high" or "very high" levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in their wastewater testing ...

Five years after the pandemic’s start, millions of Americans are still struggling with long-lasting symptoms of Covid-19. Cognitive difficulties are among the most troubling and common symptoms ...

Cases of the new COVID-19 variant NB.1.8.1, a descendent of the Omicron variant, are on the rise in some parts of the world, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).. Currently, there are ...