When infection rates rise—or in extreme cases—a pandemic hits, it's impossible to test everyone. Time, money and resources ...

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Nationally, the test positivity rate for the week ending on February 8, was 4.8 percent, according to the CDC's most recent update on its COVID Data Tracker.

Health care providers say that hesitation and outright resistance to vaccines have become disturbingly common even in ...

The flu is walloping every corner of Massachusetts in an unusual second surge of the season, with people reporting flu-like ...

Five years on, COVID-19 reshaped US work, tech & faith. 32% still work remotely, while misinformation & political divides ...

Here are four more respiratory illness updates: Nearly 1.7% of all deaths nationwide were attributed to flu, compared to approximately 1.5% from COVID-19. Influenza test positivity rose to 31.6%, ...

Is it common for the flu to zap us twice in the winter months? Massachusetts, and the U.S. for that matter, had a surge in ...

Dr. Jason Tracy said South Shore Health is in the midst of one of the busiest flu seasons he’s experienced in his 13 years ...

Last year there were 207 pediatric deaths attributed to the flu, NBC News reported. The CDC said the number of cases is ...

“To put some numbers on it, at least here in Massachusetts ... positive tests by a few weeks, so I would expect ...

The latest test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress suggests that student learning has not recovered from its COVID-era decline. Is this more true for urban school districts ...