U.S. suspending free COVID test distribution once again

Americans won't be able to order free COVID tests from the U.S. government again after Friday ... The at-home testing program was relaunched when hospitalizations increased in September 2023. Read More

Still testing positive for COVID-19 after 10 days? Here's what to know

Cold, flu and COVID-19 season is finally starting to wind down in the U.S. But ... about hand hygiene and testing, for another five days. If you start to feel sicker again after going back ... Read More

USPS to stop accepting orders for free Covid tests 8 March

The US government has been mailing free at-home tests on and off since January 2022 to curb the spread of Covid and make testing more accessible for the general public. The decision to suspend the ... Read More

Toxic: How the search for the origins of COVID-19 turned politically poisonous

The Chinese government froze meaningful efforts to trace the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite publicly declaring that it supported an open scientific inquiry, an Associated Press investiga ... Read More

Bird flu pandemic could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID, scientists warn

“This appears to be 100 times worse than COVID — or it could be if it mutates and maintains its high case fatality rate,” he said. “Once it’s mutated ... the US is already testing ... Read More

COVID Testing

You've had close contact with someone who has, or thinks they have, COVID. (Test at least 5 full days after the contact.) You're traveling outside of the U.S. (Follow the testing requirements of ... Read More

Total COVID-19 Deaths

Search below to see a state’s total number of COVID-19 deaths and to compare it with the totals of other states. Use the map to explore COVID-19 death counts across the U.S. Map (USAFacts ... Read More

How US life expectancy rates changed as COVID deaths wane, drug overdoses persist

That's a 5.4 year age difference in life expectancy between men and women, according to the CDC. The COVID-19 pandemic and fatal drug overdoses are causing a large death toll in the U.S. COVID ... Read More

Only ~14% Of U.S. Adults Have Gotten Latest Covid-19 Vaccine Update

Indeed, this latest KFF Covid-19 survey, which queried a nationally representative sample of 1,301 U.S. adults via telephone ... with the SARS-CoV-2 now and into the future. Read More

COVID-19

including death, and the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines. U.S. flu season is still in full swing, but as rates for that virus trend down, the number of COVID-19 cases is ticking up. Read More

US asylum measure aimed at curbing claims has limited impact given strained border budget

Notably missing from the operations hub in the busiest corridor for illegal crossings into the U.S. are ... ambitions. Strained budgets continue to loom large as the White House again considers ... Read More

How U.S. News Ranks the Best Jobs

U.S. News ranks jobs in the following categories: Jobs are ranked based on their overall score, which combines multiple components into a single weighted average score between 0 and 10. Read More