The federal government approved updated Covid-19 vaccines for the 2026-27 respiratory virus season last month, but the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not yet made these vaccines av�...
Covid-19 has killed more than a million people in the United States, but in an interview with CNNs Dana Bash on Sunday, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said�...
New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as death rates have continued to fall since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.�...
The measles outbreak in South Carolina the largest the United States has had in decades has ended, state health officials announced Monday. There were nearly 1,000 confirmed cases over about six mon�...
Tuesday marks one year since a measles outbreak started in West Texas, and there have been new cases in the United States each week since. Texas reported more than 760 cases and the deaths of two ch�...
The United States reported a record number of measles cases in 2025, and the virus continues to spread rapidly in the new year. At least 171 measles cases have been reported in the first two weeks of�...
Opting out of childhood vaccines is becoming more common across most of the United States, leaving larger shares of the population vulnerable to preventable diseases like measles, which is continuing�...
After a record week of flu activity in the US, hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise. About 40,000 people were admitted to the hospital with flu during the week ending January 3, according to�...
As measles outbreaks flared up across the US last year, causing a record number of cases, Scott Thorpe kept a wary eye on Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Nestled in the foothills of the Appalach�...
The United States reported more than 2,000 measles cases in 2025, federal data shows, a higher annual total than the country has seen in decades. Ongoing outbreaks particularly in the upstate region�...