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With the emergence of omicron, the future course of the pandemic is unclear as experts struggle to understand how new variants emerge.

Covid hospitalizations of children under 5 are rising, the CDC says, and that age group can’t get vaccines. Doctors explain how parents can protect them.

Doctors at children’s hospitals around the country are seeing more kids hospitalized with Covid than ever before.

A huge new global study found that drug-resistant bacterial infections played a part in almost 5 million deaths in 2019.

Fauci said younger children will likely need three doses, because two shots did not induce an adequate immune response in children 2 to 4 years old.

The masks will start to become available late next week, and the program will be fully up and running by early February, according to an official.

Every household is limited to four tests. The White House said last week it capped the number of tests people can order to ensure broad access to the program.

New infections have increased by 20% globally over the past week with nearly 19 million total cases reported, according to the WHO.

Unions are calling for the Labor Department to implement improved ventilation, physical distancing and masking in workplaces.

President Joe Biden said he would urge businesses to implement the rules voluntarily.

President Joe Biden said the White House next week will announce how it is providing high-quality masks to Americans for free.

The federal government will deploy six teams of military medical personnel to hospitals in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, Michigan and New Mexico.

Omicron patients at Kaiser Permanente Southern California were 74% less likely to end up in ICUs and 91% less likely to die than delta patients, a study found.

“It’s hard to process what’s actually happening right now, which is most people are going to get Covid,” acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock said.

Dr. Mike Ryan, director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, said omicron represents a “massive threat” to the lives of the unvaccinated.

The CDC last month warned against all cruise ship travel.

Covid hospitalizations surpassed last winter’s peak over the weekend as the U.S. reported another single-day record of nearly 1.5 million new case Monday.

It’s the latest in a longstanding feud between the two government officials.

[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] The top health leaders in the U.S. will testify before the Senate on Tuesday about the federal response to the omicron Covid variant, as new infections and hospitalizations reach pandemic highs. The Senate health...

Professor Eyal Leshem is an infectious disease expert at Sheba Medical Center in Israel, where fourth vaccine doses are being rolled out as Covid cases soar.