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Americans are advised against all but essential travel to Level Four countries

The CDC has a backlog of 142 applications of air-filtering masks such as N95s, amid criticism for slow mask recommendations.

MIAMI — Florida on Tuesday reported 111,621 cases and 365 new deaths to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after not reporting data during the long holiday weekend, according to Miami Herald calculations of CDC data.

With drug overdoses having skyrocketed over the past two decades and deaths increased over four times in the period between 1999 and 2017, according to CDC data, it's no surprise that the number of those prone to opioid use disorder and opiate addiction is rising as well.

The science isn't actually on school districts' side.

"I think what I have not conveyed is the uncertainty in a lot of these situations," Walensky said.

The spread of the Omicron variant has sent federal authorities scrambling to clarify Covid safety guidance for the purposes of everyday life

A nationwide genomic surveillance system builds a picture of which variants are spreading in the population

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has held the cruise industry to special sailing orders to battle COVID-19 since March 2020. First it was a no-sail order, which then shifted to a conditional sail order with a long list of safety precautions.