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Is Covid-19 or coronavirus back in India? The recent deaths of two Covid-19 patients in Mumbai of Maharashtra and a spike in cases in some regions of Southeast Asia have once again raised this ...

COVID is once again on the rise around the Bay Area with the highest levels seen in the region since winter. According to the Department of Health, the Bay Area has a high amount of the virus in its ...

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and analysis to ...

In January 2022, Jennifer Robertson’s now 11-year-old son, Fergus, developed long COVID, a condition in which the symptoms of COVID-19 linger for months or even years. Due to his symptoms, he missed ...

Masks have been stored away. Social distancing is just a vague memory. Interest in vaccines is waning. COVID, for many, feels like an inevitable annoyance, like the flu. Then, each summer, we get a ...

School districts in every state are using a variety of approaches. In a hodgepodge of in-person, remote and delayed reopenings, millions of students across the country are set to head back to school ...

Many people are feeling lousy right now as the winter stew of respiratory viruses simmers. But there are a couple of unusual trends driving all the coughing, sneezing and fevers this year. First, the ...