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A man reacts as health official delivers the fourth dose of COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine in Jakarta on January 25, 2023. (Azwar Ipank/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)

February 7, 2023 at 12:05 pm

Healthy lifestyle could lower risk for long COVID, study suggests

Boston researchers say that healthy lifestyles seemed to lower the risk of getting long COVID and also ease its severity for those who did get...

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FILE – A COVID-19 vaccine is administered in Baltimore, Oct. 4, 2022. An advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration unanimously agreed that the vaccine and booster process for COVID-19 needs to be simplified in terms of which version of the shot is offered and when and how often people should receive it. (Rosem Morton/The New York Times) XNYT58 XNYT58

February 7, 2023 at 10:36 am

Who should get a COVID booster now? New data offers some clarity

If you are at high risk, the answer is straightforward. If you are low risk, there is less consensus. To guide your decisions, here's the...

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King County Executive Dow Constantine is photographed during a media tour of the Salmonberry Lofts, a new Health through Housing building in Pioneer Square that King County purchased to create homeless housing, on Wednesday, December 14, 2022 in Seattle. , King County Director of Human Service Leo Flor and executive director of Chief Seattle Club Derrick Belgrade were present.

February 6, 2023 at 3:19 pm

Seattle, King County will no longer require COVID vaccinations for employees

King County Executive Dow Constantine and Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell cited guidance from Public Health on their decision to lift the COVID vaccine mandate.

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Patients on gurneys line the hallways in the emergency department at MLK Community Hospital on Jan. 2, 2023, in Los Angeles. Its emergency department was expected to handle an estimated 110 patients a day when it opened seven and a half years ago. Instead, it has seen more than 400 on hectic days and ultimately exceeded 112,000 patients in 2022. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times / TNS)

February 6, 2023 at 12:05 pm

While COVID raged, another deadly threat was on the rise in hospitals

Sepsis is a perilous, even life-threatening complication of infection. Its rise in California comes as hospital-acquired infections rise across the country.

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FILE – Johnny Thai, 11, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif., Nov. 9, 2021. On Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, the California Department of Public Health said it was no longer exploring emergency rules to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required school vaccinations. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File) LA518 LA518

February 3, 2023 at 4:23 pm

California won’t require COVID vaccine to attend schools

California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools. That's a reversal from Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom's 2021 announcement.

Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, offers amendments to the operating rules of the panel during an organizational meeting for the 118th Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. Raskin, the ranking member, is battling battling diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) DCSA124 DCSA124

February 3, 2023 at 4:09 pm

The week in fake news: It didn’t happen, but it sure went viral online

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. The Associated Press checked them out: Here are the truths behind the viral tales.

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From left: Mistere Moges, Hanan Jazouli and Aretha Were talk and color during an event aimed at helping students ease back into full-time in-person learning at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Md., on Wednesday.

February 3, 2023 at 11:58 am

Can a school counselor help a generation catch up on all the pandemic took?

Felicia Kimmel's wellness Wednesday programs are beloved at Paint Branch High. Recess and playground games join mindfulness sessions and "coloring and tea."

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FILE – Bub and Grandma’s Restaurant in Los Angeles is filled with customers on Dec. 15, 2022. California’s coronavirus emergency declaration will expire on Feb. 28, almost three years after it began. (Elizabeth Lippman/The New York Times)

February 3, 2023 at 10:06 am

California to switch from COVID as emergency to manageable risk

After nearly three years under a state COVID emergency, California will transition at February's end into treating it as something we all live with.

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At the height of the pandemic, lavish payments flowed into real estate, management and staffing companies financially linked to nursing home owners throughout New York. (Dreamstime/TNS)

February 2, 2023 at 4:03 pm

Nursing home owners drained cash during pandemic while residents deteriorated

In the pandemic, lavish payments went to companies linked to N.Y. nursing home owners while patients and staff endured bad conditions. Regulators are watching.

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Former president Donald Trump, left, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis each spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando last February. MUST CREDIT: Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford.

February 1, 2023 at 1:24 pm

For GOP base, battles over coronavirus vaccines, closures are still fiery

For some Americans, battles over masks, vaccines and mandates are well in the past. For the GOP base and many politicians, they’re still a hot...

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