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iStock/MarsBars (WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is expected to announce, as soon as this week, a plan to roll out booster shots for all Americans who got Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines more...

iStock/Viorel Poparcea (CHICAGO) -- The Justice Department has arrested a Chicago pharmacist who allegedly sold 125 real CDC COVID-19 vaccination cards on EBay.  According to charging documents, ...

Drazen Zigic/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Throughout much of 2020, parents took comfort in a single silver lining the pandemic: The virus seemed to spare young people, particularly children and toddlers, whose...

Dr. John Brownstein(NEW YORK) -- As parents across the country brace for another school year upended by the coronavirus pandemic, they are also face rising concerns over kids' safety amid the delta va...

Niphon Khiawprommas/iStock(NEW YORK) -- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed the COVID-19 delta variant as one of its “variants of concern” (VOCs) on June 15. According to...

martinedoucet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Young children may be more likely to transmit the virus that causes COVID-19 within households compared with older children, a new study has found. Specifically, chil...

Courtesy Daniels familyCourtesy Daniels family(SAVANNAH, Ga.) -- Martin and Trina Daniel, married for over 20 years, both died of COVID-19 within hours of each other, leaving behind two teenage childr...

Angie Abbott(FORT WORTH, Texas) -- A Texas mom is urging parents to send their kids to school wearing masks after she says her 11-year-old son was diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome a mo...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- As the delta variant continues to ravage communities across the country, Hispanic populations in many states have been left behind in the race to get the countr...

Ty O'Neil/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Scientists are learning more about how widespread wildfires affect human health -- and if there is a link between severe COVID-19 cases ...