Flu
Allina Health makes flu shot for employees mandatory

Jun. 25, 2021 07:57 AM EDT
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Allina Health says the flu shot will be mandatory for all employees, starting this flu season. The new policy will also...

FILE - In this Tuesday Jan. 21, 2014, file photo, slaughtered chickens are displayed for sale at a wholesale poultry market in Shanghai. The Chinese government on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, says a 41-year-old man has contracted what might be the world’s first human case of the H10N3 strain of bird flu, but the risk of large-scale spread is low. (AP Photo, File)
China reports human case of H10N3 bird flu, a possible first

Jun. 01, 2021 01:24 PM EDT

Flu cases plummet in Pennsylvania amid COVID-19 precautions

May. 28, 2021 03:08 PM EDT
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The just-concluded flu season was one of the mildest on record in Pennsylvania, health officials reported Friday, with COVID-19...

This combination of photos shows a general view of Times Square near 42nd Street in New York in the 1920s, left, and a general view of Times Square in New York on March 10, 2021. As hopes rise that the pandemic is ebbing in the United States and Europe, visions of a second “Roaring Twenties” to match last century’s post-pandemic decade have proliferated.. (AP Photo, File)
In visions of post-pandemic life, Roaring '20s beckon again

By Jake Coyle May. 28, 2021 09:51 AM EDT

CVS Pharmacy on Moosic Street is illuminated at night, Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Scranton, Pa. (Jake Danna Stevens/The Times-Tribune via AP)
After an 11% profit spike, CVS outlook for 2021 grows rosy

By Tom Murphy May. 04, 2021 07:02 AM EDT

Maine: 50+ can now get COVID-19 shot; flu, Lyme both decline

Mar. 23, 2021 01:45 AM EDT
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine expanded eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccinations to everyone age 50 and older on Tuesday. The state is using...

FILE - This Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020 file photo shows influenza vaccine syringes at the L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's Community Resource Center's Free Drive-Thru vaccination event in Los Angeles. February is usually the peak of flu season, with doctors' offices and hospitals packed with suffering patients. But not in 2021. Flu has virtually disappeared, with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
Amid COVID-19 pandemic, flu has disappeared in the US

By Mike Stobbe Feb. 25, 2021 12:04 AM EST

Editorial Roundup: Wisconsin

By The Associated Press Feb. 24, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Janestown Gazette. February 19, 2021. Editorial: Local progress against COVID-19 encouraging If you doubt the...

FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in Las Vegas. The makers of COVID-19 vaccines are figuring out how to tweak their recipes against worrisome virus mutations — if and when the shots need an update. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
COVID-19 shots might be tweaked if variants get worse

By Lauran Neergaard Feb. 15, 2021 10:20 AM EST

PSG's Neymar reacts after being defeated by FC Lorient during the French League One soccer match between FC Lorient and Paris Saint-Germain at the Moustoir stadium in Lorient, western France, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Neymar sick, misses PSG training ahead of Marseille game

By Jerome Pugmire Feb. 06, 2021 07:43 AM EST

Nurse practitioner Sigrid Stokes, 76, gives a health care worker a COVID-19 vaccine at the Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital in Salinas, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. Stokes is following in her family's footsteps during the pandemic. In 1918, Stokes' mother Kristine Berg Mueller was a 14-year-old hospital volunteer in Norway during the Spanish Flu pandemic, putting her in regular contact with the deadly disease. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
2 nurses: Her mom battled 1918 pandemic, she fights this one

By Haven Daley And John Rogers Feb. 05, 2021 12:05 AM EST

FILE- In this Oct. 15, 2019, file photo, Dr. Allen Sills, the NFL's chief medical officer, speaks during a news conference at the at the football league's fall meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Playing a season through a pandemic did not take the NFL's attention off other health issues, specifically concussions with the league finding those dropped about 5% in 2020. Sills said the league had 262 cases of COVID-19 among players and 463 cases among coaches, staff and other personnel. The NFL had an overall test positivity rate from Aug. 1 through the end of January of 0.08%, well below the country's positivity rate and almost all the league's markets. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee, File)
NFL: Concussions down about 5%, masks limited flu cases

By Teresa M. Walker Feb. 03, 2021 06:03 PM EST

FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Demand for coronavirus vaccines among early priority groups in Nevada has been high, but officials worry that they may encounter resistance among people to get the shots as more become eligible. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Health officials worry that people will reject vaccinations

By Sam Metz Feb. 03, 2021 02:05 PM EST

30 people infected in county jail COVID-19 outbreak

Feb. 02, 2021 06:34 PM EST
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — More than two dozen people have been infected with COVID-19 at the Josephine County jail in southern Oregon, authorities said. ...

FILE - In this June 12, 2020 file photo, lead prosecutor Maria Cristina Rota talks with reporters as the leaves Palazzo Chigi premier's office, in Rome. Prosecutors from northern Italy have traveled to Rome again Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021, to question the health minister and others as part of their broadening investigation into whether to lay any criminal blame for Italy’s horrific coronavirus toll. Back in June, Bergamo prosecutors questioned Premier Giuseppe Conte, Health Minister Roberto Speranza and other top officials about the delayed lockdown in two Bergamo towns where infections were reported in the early days of Italy’s outbreak. Bergamo subsequently became the Italy’s COVID-19 epicenter, the first in the West, registering a 571% excess mortality rate in March compared to the average of the previous five years. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)
Probe into Italy virus response looks into preparedness plan

By Nicole Winfield Jan. 28, 2021 10:35 AM EST

Massachusetts drops student flu vaccine mandate

Jan. 20, 2021 11:28 AM EST
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts has dropped a requirement that all students get the flu shot this academic year in part because it has been a mild flu season so...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020 file photo, hospital staff wash the emergency entrance of Wuhan Medical Treatment Center, where some infected with a new virus are being treated, in Wuhan, China. A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner. (AP Photo/Dake Kang, File)
Panel: China, WHO should have acted quicker to stop pandemic

By Maria Cheng And Jamey Keaten Jan. 19, 2021 04:45 AM EST

Francesco Zambon, lead author of a withdrawn WHO report into Italy's coronavirus response speaks with The Associated Press in Rome, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. Zambon warned his U.N. bosses in May of lost lives and "catastrophic" reputational damage if they allowed Italian political interests to suppress the document, according to emails obtained by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
WHO was warned lives were at risk over yanked Italy report

By Nicole Winfield Dec. 19, 2020 02:22 AM EST

FILE - In this June 10, 2020 file photo, from left, Laura Capella, Nicoletta Bosica, Stefano Fusco and Arianna Dalba hold pictures of their relatives, victims of COVID-19, as they stand in front of Bergamo's courthouse, Italy. Italy is poised to reclaim the dishonor of reporting the most coronavirus deaths in Europe, as the second surge ravages the country’s disproportionately old population and exposes how public health shortfalls and delayed restrictions compounded a lack of preparedness going into the pandemic. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni, file)
Italy's staggering virus toll poses uncomfortable questions

By Nicole Winfield Dec. 12, 2020 02:38 AM EST

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 10, 2020, file photo, 5-year-old Joseph Chavez, of Whittier, cries as he receives his flu shot from Michelle Hormozian, a pharmacist at the University of Southern California, as people receive free flu shots during a walk-up and drive-thru clinic by L.A. Care Health Plan and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan's network of Community Resource Centers at Historic General Hospital in Los Angeles. New government data suggests more Americans have been getting flu shots in 2020, apparently heeding the advice of health officials fearful of a flu/coronavirus double pandemic. (Keith Birmingham/The Orange County Register via AP, File)
Fewer Black kids getting flu shots, worrying CDC officials

By Mike Stobbe Dec. 09, 2020 07:43 PM EST