U.S. health authorities again expanded the nation's booster campaign Thursday, opening extra doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to several million 16- and 17-year-olds. The U.S. and many other nations already were urging adults to get booster shots to pump up immunity that can wane months ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s first case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 has been identified in a Kent County resident, the state Department of Health and Human Services and Kent County Health Department said Thursday. The omicron variant was classified as one of concern by the ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 200 million Wednesday amid a dispiriting holiday-season spike in cases and hospitalizations that has hit even New England, one of the most highly inoculated corners of the country. New cases in the ...

State data Wednesday showed 22 new confirmed COVID-19 positives in Dickinson County in the past two days, while Iron County had 12 news cases and one more death blamed on the virus. Across the border in Wisconsin, state coronavirus numbers had 104 new confirmed cases in Marinette County since ...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan’s COVID-19 hospitalizations reached a new high Wednesday, exceeding the previous record for the fifth straight time that the state has reported data. Nearly 4,700 patients were in the hospital statewide during a fourth surge in infections. The roughly 4,400 ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s top health official said Wednesday that 270 health care facilities have requested staffing help and the state has asked for medical reserve teams from the federal government to provide relief for long term care facilities facing worker shortages. The state ...