Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record, with the crisis all but certain to get worse because of the fallout from ...

Some Essex County residents are refusing to adhere to public health orders amid the coronavirus pandemic, and elected officials are looking for answers. The Essex County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday discussed piecing together a plan to address what board Chairman Shaun Gillilland ...

It may be some time before a COVID-19 vaccine is available for mass distribution, but in Essex County, planning for it is already underway. Essex County Public Health Director Linda Beers on Tuesday briefed the county Board of Supervisors on the department’s tentative plans for ...

AuSABLE FORKS — Dr. Johnnie Wren recently joined the University of Vermont Health Network’s Elizabethtown Community Hospital to provide family medicine care at the AuSable Forks Health Center, one of the hospital’s six community-based health centers in Essex County. She said it became ...

The state announced new metrics on Monday that could trigger another partial economic shutdown. The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is expected to rise across the state in the coming weeks as an anticipated post-Thanksgiving wave gives way to another wave of new infections ...

How could scientists race out COVID-19 vaccines so fast without cutting corners? A head start helped — over a decade of behind-the-scenes research that had new vaccine technology poised for a challenge just as the coronavirus erupted. “The speed is a reflection of years of work that ...