pandemic

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — Slippery Rock University’s president William Behre plans to retire in summer 2023, and in announcing the move Tuesday — 16 months e...

DETROIT (TNS) — When the first COVID-19 mandates were issued in hopes of turning back a mysterious pandemic, there wasn’t enough science or data avail...

A study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that extended shutdowns had almost no effect on public health, while coming at tremendous c...

Is the pandemic responsible for the crisis at Bradford Regional Medical Center? Not in our opinion. A story in Tuesday’s Era quoted Kaleida Health off...

The Hydra is an ancient Greek mythical beast, mentioned in the tales of Hercules, that was said to have the body of a dragon with many heads, two arms...

FORT WORTH, Texas (TNS) — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requi...

Twelve months ago, Americans could indulge in optimism. For a bright, shining moment, 2021 promised to be a year of recovery. The first vaccines for C...

Washington, D.C., is now the epicenter of the pandemic. As of Dec. 23, it had 158 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 residents, a 541% growth in cases over th...

Necessity is the mother of invention. It’s a truism because, well, it’s true. You don’t find a new way to do something unless you have a problem that ...

Just before global leaders gathered in Rome for the G-20, to blather about confronting COVID-19 globally, a damning report was issued by a Brazilian s...

As a physician who has worked in this community for 23 years, I am pleading for all who are able to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Right now, Cattaraugus Cou...

It used to be that a 100th birthday was almost a tall tale. Celebrating 100 years was the kind of thing that a country or a city did, not a person. A ...

Last Halloween, I gathered up a lawn chair and an enormous bowl of candy and sat on my front steps, not quite sure what to expect. Weeks earlier, the ...

About six months ago, President Joe Biden signed the American Rescue Plan, a historic investment in the working families and communities who had been ...

There are times for the government to protect information. There are big secrets such as weapons codes or battle plans. There are small, personal ones...

FORT WORTH, Texas — When the story of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it will need to include several chapters — perhaps several volumes — about the...

A year and a half into the pandemic, the long-feared specter of rationed health care — that is, the delay or denial of medical treatment to some patie...

The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier, as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on e...

In 2020, Labor Day was celebrated with a kind of asterisk. Sure, there could be relaxation, but amid a pandemic, it was a little tense. There could be...

In March 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic erupted, Gov. Tom Wolf declared an emergency. It was the right move at the time. That does not, however, me...