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The Food and Drug Administration approved an updated COVID-19 vaccine. The new vaccine targets the JN.1-lineage XFG variant of the virus

Vaccines from Moderna, Novavax and Pfizer/BioNTech received federal approval this week. See all topics

COVID-19 cases are rising in all 50 states, and doctors say some people remain at risk of serious illness

Most people become infected with a virus at some point in their lives, be it one that causes the flu or one that causes the common cold. Usually, our bodies can fully clear them out. But some stick around, sleeping in the body until something reawakens them. The herpesvirus that causes chickenpox, for instance, can…

A positive COVID home test is shown in this image. Public health experts say we’re now in the midst of a growing summer surge of COVID in the U.S. Justin Sullivan/hide caption

10 News’ “What’s Going Around” looks at trending health topics and local respiratory virus data in the Roanoke region and across Virginia. Thanks to a partnership with Johns Hopkins University and the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, the station can show localized disease data for the community

BMJ Public Health has retracted a paper some — including a witness at a recent U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing — have used to link COVID-19 vaccines to deaths. The action comes more than two years after a researcher cited in the work flagged issues with the study. 

Covid-19 has killed more than a million people in the United States, but in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that lockdowns were “the thing that did the most damage to our country.”

Public health officials and infectious disease experts are urging Bay Area residents to take added precautions against COVID-19 as wastewater testing shows high concentrations of the virus in parts of the region

The 2025-2026 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines provided protection against emergency department/urgent care (ED/UC) visits and hospitalizations among individuals with COVID-19-like illness, according to study findings published in JAMA Network Open