The City of Calgary has backed away from its plan to require its employees who are not vaccinated against COVID-19 to pay for their own rapid testing. The mayor is blaming the change in direction on ...

Alberta Health Services is opening a new walk-in, drop-in testing location in Calgary on Wednesday inside the Richmond Road Diagnostic and Treatment Centre. The clinic, at 1820 Richmond Road S.W., ...

As the summer surge of COVID-19 crests, many people are weighing whether they need to get booster shots now to protect against the disease (SN: 7/19/24). The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical correspondent as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health ...

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Okay, so it seems like everyone I know has come down with COVID this summer — even the people known as NOVIDs (never had COVID before). I’ve been lucky so far. What do I need to know to protect myself ...

A COVID-19 antigen home test indicating a positive result are photographed in New York on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and ...