The U.S. may be heading into another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. Experts don’t know how high the mountain will grow, but they don’t expect a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the ...

On the deadliest day of a horrific week in April 2020, COVID took the lives of 816 people in New York City alone. Lost in the blizzard of pandemic data that’s been swirling ever since is the fact that 43-year-old Fernando Morales was one of them. Two years and nearly 1 million deaths ...

NORFOLK, Va. — COVID-19 hospitalization numbers have plunged to their lowest levels since the early days of the pandemic, offering a much needed break to health care workers and patients alike following the omicron surge. The number of patients hospitalized with the coronavirus has fallen ...

SARANAC LAKE — People who got tested for COVID-19 at Adirondack Medical Center within the past two months might have noticed a cozy sight at the drive-thru testing clinic — a rocking chair, bouquets of flowers and a stuffed animal deer head mounted above a fake fireplace. Nurses at ...

NEW YORK — Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the world has seen a dramatic improvement in infections, hospitalizations and death rates in recent weeks, signaling the crisis appears to be winding down. But how will it end? Past epidemics may provide clues. The ends of epidemics ...

PAUL SMITHS — Paul Smith’s College announced Friday that it will be requiring new and returning students to be vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to the start of the fall 2022 semester. A vaccine mandate was previously instated for all employees of the college at the beginning of the ...