Health

News coverage and resources related to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.

The state of Minnesota is on the verge of selling off a refrigerated warehouse that it bought in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in case it was needed as backup morgue.

President Joe Biden publicly received a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine after public health authorities last week cleared a booster shot for high-risk Americans.

This year’s Aspen Ideas Festival featured several discussions related to the pandemic.

New York state officials are bracing for possible staffing shortages when the state's health care worker COVID-19 vaccination mandate takes effect Monday, and could be looking to the National Guard as one way to help address them.

If you're trying to rev up your pandemic fitness routine, maybe it's time to mix things up with some free weights — or soup cans — and get your muscles pumping.

New York City schools have been temporarily blocked from enforcing a vaccine mandate for its teachers and other workers by a federal appeals judge just days before it was to take effect.

While a jump in testing can explain much of the big increase in case counts, the latest numbers show the current wave stubbornly refusing to crest. In the next few days, the state expects to top 700,000 total known cases in the pandemic.

A panel of advisers said boosters should be offered to people 65 and older, nursing home residents and those ages 50 to 64 who have risky underlying health problems. The extra dose would be given once they are at least six months past their last Pfizer shot.

The state’s summer COVID-19 surge continues to push its way into fall, with case counts rising notably among school-age children. Officials say two Minnesota school staff members have died from COVID-19 in the first weeks of this school year.