SAN FRANCISCO -- It's a story that has been making headlines across the United States: Did Californians develop herd immunity after possibly being exposed to novel coronavirus last year? On Thursday, ...

The Illinois Supreme Court has delivered one of the broadest interpretations yet of a state-level COVID immunity waiver for healthcare facilities, finding that a nursing home does not have to face ...

Nursing homes across the country had less staffing in states where legislatures granted the facilities immunity from COVID-19 ...

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Looming funding cuts for one of America's major disease surveillance programs could threaten public health responses experts ...

With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the pandemic coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, according to a study published in Nature. Using population-wide data from ...

Licensed practical nurse and registered nurse coverage did not decline significantly in states that adopted laws to protect ...

The increase in COVID-19 cases could be due to several factors, including waning population immunity, said the Communicable Diseases Agency.

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