A British historian, an Italian archaeologist and an American preschool teacher have never met in person, but they share a prominent pandemic bond. Plagued by eerily similar symptoms, the three women are credited with describing, naming and helping bring long COVID into the public's ...

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States, with older adults a growing share of U.S. deaths and less than half of nursing home residents up to date on COVID-19 vaccinations. These alarming signs portend a difficult winter for seniors, which worries ...

State officials are not calling for a return to indoor masking statewide, though they are asking state residents to consider flu and COVID-19 vaccines to help ease a shortage of hospital beds statewide. During a news conference Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul the spike in flu, RSV and COVID-19 ...

A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon wash over the U.S. Phoenix-area emergency physician Dr. ...

Student learning in math was most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in Chautauqua County schools. This year, 46.6% of students tested statewide were proficient in English, while 38.6% were proficient in math, according to a Syracuse Post-Standard report. A simple average of Chautauqua County ...

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee last week voted that the agency should update its recommended immunization schedules to add the COVID-19 vaccine, including to the schedule for children, something Rep. Joe Sempolinski opposes. On Wednesday Sempolinski, a ...