coronavirus

Morgan Stanley’s Mike Wilson, the market’s biggest bear, suggests investors are dangerously downplaying a collision between a tightening Fed and slowing growth.

Massachusetts health officials on Monday reported 24,512 new COVID-19 cases and 78 new deaths, data that includes three days due to the weekend.

U.S. health officials say COVID-19 antibody drugs from Regeneron and Eli Lilly should no longer be used because they are unlikely to work against the omicron variant.

Pharmacies and health centers around the country have begun distributing the first of the 400 million N95 masks the White House is sending out to combat the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19.

Rules around how to get your free at-home Covid tests vary from one health insurance plan to the next. Here’s what you need to know.

The FAA can propose fines up to $37,000 per violation for passengers who engage in unruly behavior.

Sarah Palin has Covid-19 last year, but since then has said she would get the coronavirus vaccine “over my dead body.”

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu touted a 94% vaccination rate among city employees on Monday while announcing an extension to the deadline. “I’m incredibly encouraged by this progress and we continue to have very productive conversations with our union partners about the collective bargaining impacts,” Wu said. “We are giving this one more week to make sure that we realize that…

The WHO’s top official said it’s dangerous to assume we’re in the endgame of the pandemic — but with the right action, the Covid emergency could end in 2022.

U.S. Treasury yields moved higher Monday as investors braced for the latest Federal Reserve policy meeting.

The move by Mayor Michelle Wu comes as first responders ramp up protests of the mandates.

While public health experts closely track predictive data, one doctor noted we are already seeing encouraging drops in the COVID case count statewide

Mass. health officials report more than 86,000 new breakthrough COVID cases over the past week and 170 more deaths in people with breakthrough cases.

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

Biden’s rule “amounts to a presidential mandate that all federal employees consent to vaccination against COVID-19 or lose their jobs,” the judge wrote.

Earlier this week, Dr. Anthony Fauci said it’s too soon to tell whether the omicron variant of the coronavirus will bring an end to the pandemic. Top Boston doctors think it’s not even close. “We’re, I would say now, still a long way away from being able to say that we are at an endemic stage of COVID-19 because we still...

Unlike in Boston and Brookline, health officials in Somerville shot down a citywide vaccine mandate during a meeting Thursday night.

If you test positive for coronavirus or are exposed to someone who has during the omicron surge, what is the incubation period and how long could you be contagious? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidance last month, shifting the timing for isolation and quarantine as some experts say the time frame when people are most contagious…

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.