US life expectancy rebounded in 2022 but not back to pre-pandemic levels

Life expectancy in the United States has started to rebound after historic drops earlier in the Covid-19 pandemic, but it has far from recovered. Read More

The threat of respiratory illnesses is underway, CDC director says, and hospitalizations are on the rise

Mandy Cohen, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, updated a congressional subcommittee Thursday about cases of respiratory illness in the US due to three viruses: flu, the ... Read More

WHNT looks back at the COVID-19 pandemic

News 19 is celebrating our 60th Anniversary and over six decades it's safe to say, we've covered every kind of story you can imagine, but nothing like the COVID pandemic. Read More

Life expectancy gap between men and women in the US widened significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic

(CNN) — Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 ... pandemic — down to 76.1 years in 2021, according to data from ... Read More

The Covid-19 Pandemic

With the acute phase of the Covid-19 pandemic fading even as the coronavirus persists and evolves, a new normal is taking shape around the world. The dominant variant of the coronavirus has proved ... Read More

New COVID-19 Hospitalizations Increase for 3rd Week in a Row

New coronavirus hospitalizations have increased for the third week in a row. More than 19,400 new COVID-19 hospital admissions were reported last week, according to data from the Centers for Disease ... Read More

CDC to expand disease surveillance at four major US airports to include flu, RSV

The US Centers for Disease Control and ... s Travelers’ Health Branch, told CNN. The program currently operates Covid-19 surveillance at seven major international airports in the United States. Read More

Coronavirus: Trump hopes US will shake off pandemic by Easter

US President ... off coronavirus by Easter, even as New York's governor sounded the alarm that the illness is spreading faster than "a bullet train". The president told a White House news briefing ... Read More

CORONAVIRUS NEWS

The WHO chief's comments come as health authorities and pharmaceutical companies across the world have been racing to update vaccines to combat newer emerging coronavirus variants. Information ... Read More

Navigating Politics, Power and a Pandemic

Andrew Cuomo, Melissa DeRosa had a unique vantage point in navigating the harrowing early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in one ... We have this inherent “us vs. them” mentality that's falling ... Read More

Life expectancy gap between men and women in the US widened significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic

Women in the United States can expect to live nearly six years longer than men, as disparities in deaths from Covid-19 ... US fell more than two and a half years since the start of the pandemic ... Read More