Some U.S. healthcare providers are informing uninsured people they can no longer be tested for the virus free of charge, and will have to pay for the service.
Two years into the pandemic, scientists and physicians are shifting their attention to the long-term consequences of a COVID-19 infection, termed "long COVID." Recent studies add diabetes to the list of possible long COVID outcomes.
When Jeanette Ives Erickson received a phone call in the spring of 2020, asking if she would come out of retirement in the midst of the pandemic to run Boston Hope, a field hospital for COVID-19 patients affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital, she didn't hesitate. That was in late March 2020. Ives Erickson, now the interim CEO at Nantucket Cottage Hospital, was this week named a "Nursing Hero" by the Massachusetts chapter of the American Red Cross for her work during the pandemic.
NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect.
The recent rise in COVID-19 cases in the U.K. has U.S. health experts watching closely, as the Delta and Omicron variant trends in Europe have tended to presage those in the U.S.
There is now a growing body of research that's offering at least some reassurance for those who do end up getting infected — being fully vaccinated seems to substantially cut the risk of later developing the persistent symptoms that characterize long COVID.