The U.S. flu season is underway.

Kicking off the holiday shopping season with Small Business Saturday, Miami-Dade County unveiled a new website on Monday morning designed to help small businesses thrive.

Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of “Wheel of Fortune,” “Love Connection” and “Scrabble” who later became a right-wing podcaster, skewering liberals and accusing the government of lying about COVID-19, has died.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Wholesale prices in the United States were unchanged last month in another sign that inflation is returning to something close to normal after years of pressuring America’s households in the wake of COVID-19.

Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic National Stockpile.

Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes.

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines.

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media.

Since last March, Taylor Swift has donated the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of meals to help feed the growing number of Americans grappling with rising food and housing costs.

Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting in late September.

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover.

Paris Olympics organizers have issued health recommendations, but no restrictions, for dozens of athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 during the Games.

White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor says President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have almost resolved completely” from COVID-19.

An inquiry into the U.K. government's response to COVID-19 found it was ill-prepared for a pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” from the infection.

As COVID-19 bubbles up in some parts of the country, health officials are setting course for a fall vaccination campaign.

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.

The World Health Organization says member countries approved new steps to boost global preparedness for pandemics like COVID-19 and mpox and better respond to dangerous outbreaks.

A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic.

If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this summer, you’re in luck.

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled.

Authorities say more than a dozen people suffered mostly minor injuries when a tram used for tours crashed into a railing at Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles.

Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union.

The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

U.S. health officials say Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts.

A Miami woman is headed to federal prison after authorities say she fraudulently obtained nearly $2 million in COVID-19 relief funds.

For some people with COVID-19, antiviral pills that can be taken at home can lessen the chances of winding up in the hospital.

Pakistan’s prime minister has called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation.

Hospitals in South Florida seem to be getting an uptick in weekly COVID-19 admissions, but doctors say that people don’t seem to be getting as sick as in previous cases, and the overall number of patients remains relatively low.

The flu season in the U.S. is getting worse with 38 states reporting high or very high levels for respiratory illnesses.

More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face a post-holiday spike in flu and other illnesses.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned on Wednesday against the “proliferation of misinformation and disinformation” that lowers the use of vaccines against COVID-19.

U.S. health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to ramp up in the coming weeks.

If you have tickets for Sunday’s Miami Dolphins/ Dallas Cowboys game at Hard Rock Stadium, start planning now.

U.S. health officials say flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections may be peaking.

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!”.

The U.K.'s chief medical adviser has told a public inquiry that Britain’s government was too late in taking action against the coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.

Americans can order four free COVID-19 tests again online.

A freshwater spring bubbles amid the mangroves, cabbage palms and red cedars on Sweetheart Island, a two-acre uninhabited patch of paradise about a mile off the coast of this little Gulf Coast town.

A former corrections sergeant with the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department (MDCRD), was sentenced to 18 months in prison for COVID-19 relief fraud, followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $432, 051 in restitution.

The Supreme Court says it will indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.

Customers may need a dose of patience at U.S. pharmacy counters as those businesses start their busiest season.

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future.

The White House says President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot.

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s top health official are directly contradicting federal health recommendations, saying there’s not enough evidence a new COVID booster provides benefits that outweigh risks.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against the use of a drug that is not approved to treat COVID-19.

John McEnroe has COVID-19 and is missing time as ESPN’s lead tennis analyst for its U.S. Open television coverage.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before.

COVID-19 has taken a toll on the nation's heart health but how profound is only starting to emerge.

COVID-19 hospital admissions are inching upward in the United States since early July.

The National Institutes of Health is starting some studies to test possible treatments for long COVID.

China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures.

A new U.S. intelligence report rejects several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

Asian shares are mostly lower as some investors take a wait-and-see attitude after U.S. markets were closed for a national holiday.

Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week.

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid.

Lawmakers in several states are looking to loosen child labor laws, even as the federal government cracks down on surging violations.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia.

The World Health organization declared earlier this month that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency, putting a three-year end to the virus that killed at least 7 million people and turned the world upside down.

A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief has been sentenced to more than two years and three months in prison.

Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday.

Top U.N. officials and health industry leaders are demanding that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in tuberculosis fueled by the impact of COVID-19 and conflicts including Ukraine and Sudan.

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Mexican officials are crowing about the country finally developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled a hospital couldn't be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge did not cite a legal basis for ordering the facility to administer ivermectin.

Physicians are warning pink eye is now one of the symptoms that could come with a COVID-19 infection of Arcturus, an omicron variant’s strain, better known among epidemiologists as XBB1.1.16 since January.

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.

Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic and other information earlier.

Dr. Merline Benny, a pediatrician at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, said COVID-19 has had a profound effect on global health and more so on pregnant women.

A federal appeals court has blocked President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.

New data suggests U.S. deaths of pregnant women dropped significantly in 2022.

China will reopen its borders to tourists and resume issuing all visas Wednesday as it tries to revive tourism and its economy following a three-year halt during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19.

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization's first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020.

Thirty-four Tyson Foods employees, former employees and family members have filed a lawsuit against the company.

Online speculation about the origins of COVID-19 is soaring after a new report from the Energy Department concluding the coronavirus that caused the disease leaked from a China lab.

Did the coronavirus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first combination test for flu and COVID-19 that can be used at home, giving consumers an easy way to determine if a runny nose is caused by either disease.

A federal mandate for health care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 has been in place nationally for a year.

China says more than 200 million of its citizens have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19 since it lifted strict containment measures beginning in November.

In a story published February 13, 2023, about a congressional investigation into COVID-19 origins, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Rep. James Comer is from Tennessee.

As the US decides its future regarding Covid-19 vaccination plans, vaccine experts say that young and healthier people don’t need another COVID-19 booster according to a report by CNN.

Over 56,000 COVID-19 antigen tests have been recalled, according to Universal Meditech Inc.

The Florida Department of Health released its weekly situation report on Friday, Feb. 10, for the previous week from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2.

New York City is ending its COVID-19 vaccination mandate for municipal employees including police officers, firefighters and teachers.