Coronavirus

ABOVE PHOTO: Shyrel Ritter, a certified nursing assistant at the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, receives her COVID-19 booster shot at her workplace in New York, Sept. 27, 2021. COVID-19 infections are soaring again at U.S. nursing homes because of the omicron wave, and deaths are climbing too. That’s leading to new restrictions on family visits…

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By Mike Stobbe ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK — U.S. health officials last Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering the air. But they were in short supply previously, and…

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ABOVE PHOTO: A medical technician performs a nasal swab test on a motorist queued up in a line at a COVID-19 testing site near All City Stadium Dec. 30, 2021, in southeast Denver. Millions of workers whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck as the…

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By MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is…

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ABOVE PHOTO: People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing site in New York’s Times Square on Dec. 13, 2021. The fast-moving omicron variant is complicating a key question: How does the COVID-19 pandemic end and the world co-exist with this virus? Experts agree that the coronavirus is here to stay. Ending the pandemic won’t…

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(Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File) By JAKE COYLE NEW YORK (AP) — Just two weeks before it was to be held in Park City, Utah, the Sundance Film Festival is canceling its in-person festival and reverting to an entirely virtual edition due to the current coronavirus surge. Festival organizers announced Wednesday that the festival will start as…

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Jan. 4: List of 81 Philadelphia schools temporarily shifting to virtual learning through Jan. 7. All other students return in person on Tuesday January 4th. List compiled by 6abc. Academy At Palumbo Add B. Anderson School Alexander McClure School Allen M. Stearne School Anna B. Day School Anna L. Lingelbach School Bache-Martin School Baldi Middle…

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ABOVE PHOTO: Lyanna Escalante, 5, center, stands with her father, Robinson Escalante, center left in red jacket, of Washington, as a line of people waiting for COVID-19 testing curves through the entire park at a walk-up testing site at Farragut Square on Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021, just blocks from the White House in Washington. “Her…

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By Lauran Neergaard ASSOCIATED PRESS  Yes, U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for younger children after millions of 12- to 17-year-olds already safely got the shot, the only one available for children in the country. More than 5 million children ages 5 to 11 have gotten a first dose since early November, and government safety monitoring…

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Hite: “At this time, we are planning to resume full in-person learning when school resumes for students on Tuesday, January 4, 2022“ Dear School District of Philadelphia Parents and Families, I first want to say thank you for all you have done to support healthy schools as we’ve welcomed students back in person this school year. For nearly…

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