COVID-19

These are the faces of people who lost their lives to COVID-19: parents, pastors, doctors, teachers, firefighters — people from every age group and all walks of life.

In March 2020, an IT manager from Cheverly, Maryland, got sick while traveling to a Wisconsin hospital to set up their new computer system. Three weeks later, he died there, alone in the ICU. His wife and sisters never got the chance to say goodbye in person. News4’s Eun Yang reports.

The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, after more than 118,000 cases and 4,291 deaths were registered.

The U.S. government is suspending mail orders for free COVID-19 tests. Friday is the last day residential households can request for free tests shipped through USPS.

People who test positive for Covid do not need to isolate for five days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

Older U.S. adults should roll up their sleeves for another COVID-19 shot, even if they got a booster in the fall, an influential government advisory panel said.

The agency last changed its policy for COVID-positive diagnoses in 2021, when it reduced the isolation guidelines from 10 days to five days.

Paxlovid can prevent hospitalization and death from COVID-19, but experts say it’s being underused. The pills’ high price and doctors’ hesitation to prescribe them are creating obstacles to getting the drug to everyone who would benefit.

Babies born to mothers who got Covid while pregnant had “unusually high rates” of respiratory issues, according to a new study.

It’s not clear exactly how common COVID rebound is or why it happens to some people and not others. Here’s what we do know.

In California, a person who tests positive for Covid and has no symptoms does not need to isolate, according to new state health guidelines. 

Millions of American businesses took out federal loans during the COVID-19 pandemic – some ultimately didn’t have to be paid back while some do. One D.C. business couple hit some roadblocks as they tried to untangle their relief loan, and they turned to Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan for help.

Millions of American businesses took out federal loans during the COVID-19 pandemic – some ultimately didn’t have to be paid back while some do. One D.C. business couple hit some roadblocks as they tried to untangle their relief loan, and they turned to Consumer Investigative Reporter Susan Hogan for help.

Johns Hopkins Medicine is once again requiring patients, visitors and employees to wear masks in its buildings, due to rising cases of the flu, RSV and COVID.

With the recent rise in respiratory illness like COVID-19, flu and RSV, a major health system is bringing back mandatory masking at all of its Maryland medical facilities. News4’s Walter Morris reports.

Here are all the details about JN.1, which is the fastest-growing COVID-19 variant in the country.

The new strain of COVID-19 has spread across the United States in recent weeks.

The return of free test kits at D.C. libraries is a purely preventative measure, meant to give people the tools to stop the spread of viruses before they start circulating widely, and focus more on holiday fun than health worries.

Health officials see Novavax’s protein-based vaccine as a valuable alternative for people who don’t want to take messenger RNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna.

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.