Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or ...

Local data Thursday showed a significant decline in the numbers of new COVID-19 positives in Dickinson and Iron counties over the past week, even as the death toll blamed on the virus rose in both counties. The Dickinson-Iron District Health Department on Thursday confirmed earlier figures on ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — COVID-19 could become endemic by the end of the year, Wisconsin's top medical officer said Thursday. Department of Health Services Chief Medical Officer Dr. Ryan Westergaard still warned that case counts could periodically spike but the disease likely will reach a stage ...

State health statistics have listed five more deaths blamed on COVID-19 in Iron County. Figures on the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services coronavirus website Wednesday indicated 13 more virus-related deaths in the Upper Peninsula: the five in Iron County; two in Chippewa County; ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start receiving shots as early as March. In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration ...

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief said Tuesday that 90 million cases of coronavirus have been reported since the omicron variant was first identified 10 weeks ago — amounting to more than in all of 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. With many countries easing ...