COVID-19 Pandemic

Your next six pack might cost you a little more. Inflation is costing breweries more to make and bottle their drinks, and some of those costs are being passed on to you.

An alliance of businesses are calling the indoor mask mandate return in LA County a mistake, and that it should be voluntary.

The head of the U.N. body promoting development is warning that the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine have led to “an unprecedented reversal” of decades of progress in combatting global poverty and hunger and ensuring education for children everywhere.

Micronesia has likely become the final nation in the world with a population of more than 100,000 to experience an outbreak of COVID-19.

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts hosted “Celebrate Love: A (Re)Wedding” on Sunday in the pavilion outside the center.

The Pfizer pill, Paxlovid, is intended for people with COVID-19 who are more likely to become seriously ill. Previously only doctors could prescribe the drug

LA County health officials report thousands of new COVID-19 cases and 18 deaths linked to the spike over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

The head of the World Health Organization has warned that the COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over” despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments on Sunday that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency’s director-general told officials gathered in Geneva for the opening of the WHO’s...

The nation’s top infectious disease expert says the coronavirus appears to be making a transition to becoming an endemic disease — occurring regularly in certain areas

Airline mask mandates are no longer in effect — and some plane passengers received that news with cheers in the middle of their flights. Watch the video here.

When the end of the COVID-19 pandemic comes, it could create major disruptions for U.S. health care.

While both Ben and Shila Salemian also hope to slowly expand their life again they say right now it’s just too soon. NBC 7’s Amber Frias reports.

When the Coronavirus began, Shila Salemian thought about her own risk only in rare moments. As a new nurse, she was eager to get to work. “Even my doctor was like, why are you a nurse?” said Salemian. “But you just go back to it and remember why you went into this field.” Shila faces higher risks than most in…

Experts discuss what the next phase of the pandemic might be like

A blockade of the bridge between Canada and Detroit by protesters demanding an end to Canada’s COVID-19 restrictions forced the shutdown Wednesday of a Ford plant and began to have broader implications for the auto industry.

Two nurses working on Long Island are accused of forging official COVID-19 vaccination cards and entering the information into New York’s statewide database — a scheme that allegedly brought in over $1.5 million. The district attorney in Suffolk County announced Friday the arrests of Julie DeVuono, 49, and Marissa Urrao, 44, who worked at Wild Child Pediatric Healthcare in Amityville….

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued new guidance on COVID-19 isolation and testing for health care workers: Health care workers who are exposed to COVID-19 and are asymptomatic can now return to work immediately without quarantining and testing, and those who test positive and are asymptomatic may return to work immediately without isolation and without testing. Both groups…

The return-to-work criteria for healthcare professionals are due to the staffing shortage seen across the healthcare industry fueled by the rise of the omicron variant. NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry reports.

New York City readied to embrace the new year — and bid good riddance to another pandemic-marred 12 months — as it prepared to revive its annual New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square.