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Photo courtesy of the CDCCOVID is surging, but new vaccines have been approved. Here’s what to know -
Jo Ingles/Statehouse News BureauThe Ohio Department of Health is tracking both the mosquito-borne West Nile virus and COVID.
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Libraries that had been handing out free antigen tests in December are finding it's hard to stock them now. -
We answer key questions about COVID tests: What types are there? Should you self-test right after exposure to someone with COVID? And what should you do if you test positive? -
Guard members deployed to hospitals overwhelmed by COVID can't go to those health care facilities unless they get shots to protect against the virus. -
When regular teachers call off, districts turn to substitute teachers, but a years-long shortage of subs has worsened during the pandemic. -
Pet owners across Northeast Ohio and the country are finding it difficult to get treatment for their furry family members. -
Montana's largest hospital recently signed employment contracts with two dozen foreign nurses. Nationwide, a backlog of 5,000 international nurses await approval to enter the U.S. -
The new recommendation for adolescents age 12-17 came hours after a panel of CDC advisers voted in favor of it. The boosters should be given five months after initial immunization. -
Seventeen Columbus City Schools will use remote learning Thursday because of continued staffing shortages. That's up from seven on Wednesday. -
Safety forces, BMV offices, libraries and restaurants are among many things being impacted by the COVID-19 surge. -
The new surge of COVID-19 cases is causing homeless shelters to return to programs run out of motels and hotels.
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While approval would only be for those populations, an infectious disease specialist from Mount Carmel Medical Group says may be good for everyone. -
If approved, this would be the second booster shot Moderna has issued for people ages 18 and up. -
Cleveland Clinic detected the highly contagious subvariant in its labs a few weeks ago that is causing a surge of cases in Europe. But health officials say it does not seem to be driving any local surges in new cases yet. -
Pfizer and BioNTech are planning to ask the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a second COVID-19 booster shot for people age 65 and older. -
Health, Science & EnvironmentThere were a lot of reasons to get out of the health care field after the pandemic hit. -
In those two years, more than 2 million cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Ohio, and thousands more are unconfirmed and unknown. -
Millions of people in the U.S. have lost someone they love to COVID-19, and advocates hope to have those losses marked each year on the first Monday in March. -
More than half of U.S. households have ordered at-home COVID-19 tests to be shipped to their homes. Now they can get more. -
New research out of New York found the protection of the vaccine against infection in kids ages 5 to 11 dropped from 68% to 12%. -
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Bruce Vanderhoff says masks and vaccinations are still important tools to fight COVID-19.
