Coronavirus

The government will issue its latest snapshot Thursday of the level of layoffs in the United States, which remain elevated seven months after the viral pandemic erupted and after the expiration of federal unemployment aid for millions of Americans.

Record daily COVID-19 infection figures in Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy and Poland are adding to fears that Europe is running out of chances to contain the pandemic.

Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, will suspend in-person events until Monday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive.

Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned the public against having large gatherings for Thanksgiving.

Flu vaccines protect against seasonal influenza, not the coronavirus — but avoiding the flu is especially important this year.

Canada had previously extended its U.S. border closure for non-essential travel to Oct. 21.

According to an internal memo from the company, Wells Fargo employees allegedly “defrauded the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA)” in order to obtain coronavirus relief funds.

Alabama coach Nick Saban and athletic director Greg Byrne have tested positive for COVID-19, four days before the Southeastern Conference’s biggest regular-season showdown.

The first lady of the United States Melania Trump announced that she has tested negative for the coronavirus, revealing that her son, Barron, had tested positive in the wake of her initial COVID-19 diagnosis. 

Heather-Elizabeth Brown, an Emory University graduate and ordained minister now living in Detroit, was working as a police chaplain in early April of 2020 when she started not feeling well.

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University and Yale said there was a 20% increase in U.S. deaths than what was previously expected, but only 65% of those deaths were attributed to the coronavirus.

The Eli Lilly drug is similar to one that President Donald Trump received from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says that he’s scheduling a procedural vote on a GOP COVID-19 relief bill for next week.

The Portuguese soccer federation says Cristiano Ronaldo has tested positive for the coronavirus.

Social Security recipients will get a modest 1.3% cost-of living-increase in 2021, but that might be small comfort amid worries about the coronavirus and its consequences for older people.

A 25-year-old man in Nevada was infected twice with the novel coronavirus, the first confirmed case of reinfection with the virus in the United States, researchers said.

Drug-maker Johnson & Johnson says it is temporarily pausing clinical trials of a COVID-19 vaccine due to "an unexplained illness in a study participant."

The pause is at least the second such hold to occur among several vaccines that have reached large-scale final tests in the U.S.