Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines aren’t just preventing infections with the contagious Omicron variant —  they’re also keeping infected Americans from e...

It’s one of the most well-known takeaways of the pandemic: Men die of Covid-19 more often than women do. Early on, some scientists suspected the reason was primarily biological, and that sex-ba...

More than 650 people in 37 states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to imported onions, federal health officials said on Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration said that an inve...

Masks work best when everyone in the room is wearing one. That’s because when an infected person wears a mask, a large percentage of their exhaled infectious particles are trapped, stopping vira...

The coronavirus pandemic was largely responsible for shaving a year and a half from the life expectancy of Americans in 2020, the steepest drop in the US since World War II, according to federal stati...

Many of those who dreamed about visiting the iconic Friends apartment — the one in which Monica lived with Rachel and then Chandler — are now able to turn their dream into a real...

This coming Monday, people in England will be allowed into bars, pubs and restaurants. The federal government in the United States of America has issued new mask guidelines for the fully vaccinated, p...

President Joe Biden, facing a rise in coronavirus cases around the country, called Monday for governors and mayors to reinstate mask mandates as the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an order requiring travellers in the US to wear masks as part of a new initiative aimed at stemming outbreaks of the coronavirus. According t...

More than 100,000 varieties of face masks are currently for sale. They come in silk, cotton and synthetics; with filters and without; over-the-head and over-the-ears. They have sparkles and sunflowers...