COVID-19

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future.

The Glynn County Health Department will offer the updated Pfizer COVID vaccine starting Monday, Oct. 2 for everyone aged 6 months and older.

The White House says President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot.

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

The sister of late wrestler Wyndham Rotunda (better known as Bray Wyatt) took to X (Twitter) to thank Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson for groceries and keeping their houses filled following the death of her brother.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

Gov. Ron DeSantis visited Culhane’s Irish Pub in the Tinseltown area of Jacksonville’s Southside for a news conference on Thursday.

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

COVID-19 cases are steadily rising in Florida. The state Department of Health’s latest report confirms a 29.7% uptick in positive cases… that’s nearly a 7% increase from last week.

There is a wave of COVID-19 spreading right now, and some people are getting it for the first time.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against the use of a drug that is not approved to treat COVID-19.

John McEnroe has COVID-19 and is missing time as ESPN’s lead tennis analyst for its U.S. Open television coverage.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before.

Scammers are targeting seniors.

COVID-19 has taken a toll on the nation's heart health but how profound is only starting to emerge.

COVID-19 hospital admissions are inching upward in the United States since early July.

The National Institutes of Health is starting some studies to test possible treatments for long COVID.

The city has spent most of the COVID-19 relief money but now there is nearly $65 million left, and as the saying goes: it’s time to use it or lose it.

China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures.

After eight years in office, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry is stepping aside.

A new U.S. intelligence report rejects several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week.

The British government is facing a Thursday deadline to hand over a sheaf of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s personal messages to the country’s COVID-19 pandemic inquiry.

Boris Johnson established an independent inquiry while he was U.K. prime minister into the government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As the government prepares to declare the end of the public health emergency on May 11th, concerns are growing about people who got COVID-19 but never got rid of the symptoms – it’s called long-COVID, which means symptoms last for more than a month.

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia.

A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief is trying to avoid spending any time in prison.

Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday.

Top U.N. officials and health industry leaders are demanding that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in tuberculosis fueled by the impact of COVID-19 and conflicts including Ukraine and Sudan.

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Mexican officials are crowing about the country finally developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled a hospital couldn't be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge did not cite a legal basis for ordering the facility to administer ivermectin.

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.

Researchers at the Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research announced that they are starting a new clinical trial for people who can’t receive the COVID vaccine because of a weakened immune system.

Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic and other information earlier.

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have filed a lawsuit against the company.

Coughing and shortness of breath are enough to put anyone on high alert for COVID-19 these days.

Eight U.S. government agencies are now investigating the source of COVID-19, and for the first time publicly, the FBI director is blaming the coronavirus on a leak from a lab in China.

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that caused the disease leaked from a China lab.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

Three years after the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Wuhan, China, a classified report from the U.S. Department of Energy says the coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory leak in China.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

China says more than 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19 since it lifted strict containment measures beginning in November.

In a story published February 13, 2023, about a congressional investigation into COVID-19 origins, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Rep. James Comer is from Tennessee.

California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools.

The declaration of a COVID-19 public health emergency three years ago changed the lives of millions of Americans by offering increased health care coverage, beefed-up food assistance and universal access to coronavirus vaccines and tests.

President Joe Biden has informed Congress that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared.

Russia’s embassy in North Korea says the country has eased stringent epidemic controls in capital Pyongyang that were placed during the past five days to slow the spread of respiratory illnesses.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot.

How often should Americans get their booster shot against COVID-19, and how important is the booster to you if you’ve already been infected with COVID-19? Those are questions a panel of experts set out to answer during an FDA meeting, the information will be passed on to the CDC.

Hong Kong's leader says the city will scrap its mandatory isolation rule for people infected with COVID-19 from Jan. 30 as part of its strategy to return to normalcy.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on state lawmakers to permanently ban COVID-19 mandates on masks and vaccines.

China has reported nearly 60,000 deaths in people who had COVID-19 since early December following complaints it was failing to release data about the status of the pandemic.

Although still relatively rare, MIS-C after COVID-19 has become more common and more severe than previously thought. A new study is raising critical questions.

The Pentagon has formally dropped its COVID-19 vaccination mandate, but a new memo signed by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin also gives commanders some discretion in how or whether to deploy troops who are not vaccinated.

China will not include Pfizer’s COVID-19 treatment drug in a national reimbursement list that would have allowed patients to get it at a cheaper price, saying it was too expensive.

As COVID-19 surges in China, the U.S. is expanding its traveler surveillance program, an early warning system for detecting new variants.

Misinformation about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines has flared up once again, this time following the on-field collapse of Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin during a game Monday.

The European Union and China are moving closer to a political standoff over the COVID-19 crisis.

Across the country, doctors are expecting a surge in illnesses like COVID-19, the flu and RSV in the next few weeks following the holidays.

France says it will require negative COVID-19 tests of all passengers arriving from China and is urging French citizens to avoid nonessential travel to China.

Hong Kong is scrapping some of its COVID-19 restrictions, including PCR tests for inbound travelers and vaccination requirements to enter certain venues.

Japan will require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there after Beijing largely abandoned its “zero-COVID” policy.

Chinese authorities are going door to door and paying people who are older than 60 to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

U.S. military forces around the world will no longer be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

It’s peak flu season and most of the county is feeling it.

The impact of COVID-19 on children’s education was drastic and it is important to keep their minds moving during the holiday break.

India has begun randomly testing international passengers arriving at its airports for COVID-19 after an increase in cases in neighboring China.

The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero COVID” policy.

A Chinese health official says the country only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a narrow definition that limits the numbers of deaths being reported as the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions.

UF Health, Baptist Health, Ascension St. Vincent’s, Memorial Hospital and Orange Park Medical are all dealing with patients suffering from the flu, COVID, or respiratory syncytia virus — commonly known as RSV.

Chinese health authorities have reported the nation's first COVID-19 deaths in more than two weeks.

A Duval County tradition made its return Saturday morning.

As Northeast Florida sees colder temperatures this holiday season, COVID-19 cases are up across 90% of the country, according to the White House COVID-19 coordinator.

The number of U.S. deaths has dropped this year, but there are still more than there were before the coronavirus hit.

About 5% of COVID patients worldwide have reported a loss of smell that lasts longer than six months. While this side effect of the virus can be annoying, researchers are finding it might also be a predictor for cognitive decline in some people.

Coronavirus-related hospital admissions are climbing again in the United States.

China is setting up more intensive care facilities and trying to strengthen hospitals as it rolls back anti-virus controls that confined millions of people to their homes, crushed economic growth and set off protests.

A bill to rescind the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the U.S. military has passed the House.

The World Health Organization’s Africa director said that the continent is preparing for the next health crisis by strengthening gaps in health systems found in the continent's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. regulators have cleared doses of the updated COVID-19 vaccines for children younger than 5.

A day after China announced the rollback of some of its most stringent COVID-19 restrictions, people across the country are greeting the news with a measure of relief but also caution, as many wait to see how the new approach will be implemented.

Congress’ move to eliminate the Pentagon mandate that all U.S. service members get the COVID-19 vaccine delivers a victory for lawmakers and troops who oppose getting the shot.

China has rolled back rules on isolating people with COVID-19 and dropped virus test requirements for some public places.

The county said Waste Management now has enough drivers to meet the area’s demand.

As COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to rise across the county, there’s concern among health officials about how to accurately determine how fast the latest variant is spreading.

Pfizer is asking U.S. regulators to authorize its updated COVID-19 vaccine for children under age 5.