As the Essex County Health Department Monday, Jan. 3 reported 485 new COVID-19 cases since Dec. 29 -- 386 active cases -- officials also said they are changing the way residents get isolation and quarantine orders. The measure is needed, they said, to keep up with the massive amount of new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House's top medical adviser said ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City will ring in 2022 in Times Square as planned despite record numbers of COVID-19 infections in the city and around the nation, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday. "We want to show that we're moving forward, and we want to show the world that New York City is ...

Local public health will be entering the new year with an eye on whether the 2021 holiday season causes the same rise in COVID-19 cases as it did last year. Both the Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays saw jumps in case numbers in the weeks following gatherings. There are a lot of changes ...

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to the highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. The previous mark was 250,000 cases per day, ...

She became a vaccine celebrity by accident. Since being hailed as the first person in the United States to get a COVID-19 vaccine, New York nurse Sandra Lindsay has become a prominent face in the country's biggest-ever vaccination campaign. She has been promoting the shots on panels, in ...