Hospitals are canceling surgeries to make room for kids with respiratory illness. They're repurposing some spaces to accommodate more patients. And they're asking tired doctors and nurses to pick up extra shifts.
Americans who got the updated COVID-19 booster shots are better protected against symptomatic infection than those who haven't — at least for now, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.
No one thinks this year will be anything like the last two dark pandemic winters, at least when it comes to COVID-19. But the country is now dealing with a different kind of threat — an unpredictable confluence of old and new respiratory pathogens.
A nonprofit law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for allegedly working with Google to secretly install COVID-tracing software onto as many as a million smartphones.
A trio of top doctors groups in Massachusetts is urging all residents to consider wearing masks in crowded indoor spaces, getting their COVID and flu vaccines and keeping their kids home, due to a rise in RSV cases that's "stretching capacity in emergency departments and hospitals."