By Ziyad Al-Aly, August 3, 2024 Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of …
COVID infections spike, raising concerns of another summer surge
By William Brangham, Karina Cuevas, and Azhar Merchant, July 24, 2024 A COVID summer wave has spread across most of the U.S. and western states are seeing particularly high numbers of infections. With more people traveling for the summer and …
What to know about new COVID variants and the spread of bird flu and measles
By John Yang, PBS News Hour, May 11, 2024 Hospitalizations for COVID are at an all-time low four years after the start of the pandemic, but new variants are in circulation. Meanwhile, bird flu has been found in 36 dairy …
Flu hangs on in U.S., fading in some areas and intensifying in others
Mike Stobbe, PBS News Hour, February 9, 2024 The flu virus is hanging on in the U.S., intensifying in some areas of the country after weeks of an apparent national decline. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Friday …
COVID is surging again. Here’s what to know and why experts encourage caution
John Yang, Lorna Baldwin, Kaisha Young and Juliet Fuisz, PBS News Hour, January 6, 2024 The U.S. is experiencing another uptick in COVID infections after the holidays, with hospitalizations rising for the eighth week in a row. A new dominant …