Coronavirus Coverage

By Deidre McPhillips, Amanda Sealy and Dakin Andone, CNN A Medicare beneficiary hospitalized with Covid-19 costs the health insurance program about 150 times more than it does to fully vaccinate that individual, a CNN analysis shows. Covid-19 vaccines are provided at no direct cost to residents of the United States, but Medicare reimburses health care

By Holly Yan and Travis Caldwell, CNN Once again, Americans who don’t even have coronavirus are suffering the consequences of Covid-19 patients filling up hospitals. More than 101,000 people are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data Thursday from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Now, some patients wanting urgent care won’t get

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN The World Health Organization’s vaccine-sharing program COVAX forecasts an additional 1.1 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses will be made available globally between now and the end of the year, fewer than previously estimated. This forecast, released Wednesday, projects 25% fewer doses compared to July’s forecast. The new projection prompted a fresh call

By Jen Christensen, CNN More children went to the hospital and emergency room in states with lower vaccination rates, according to a new study from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Children have largely been spared the worst of Covid-19 — hospitalizations and deaths are rarer for children than for adults — although

By Jen Christensen, CNN Kids are heading back into the classroom for yet another pandemic school year, but this time with the more contagious Delta variant getting more people sick. Navigating school safely will be trickier than ever. “Everyone keeps reflecting back on last year and saying: ‘Oh, we got through it with school last

By Maggie Fox, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it has called a meeting of its vaccine advisers for September 17 to discuss booster doses of coronavirus vaccine. That’s three days before the September 20 target date to start offering booster doses announced by the White House last month. “The administration recently

By Jen Christensen, CNN Anxiety is high among parents as more kids head back to school without the protection of a Covid-19 vaccine for at least a few more months. Parents have a reason to be concerned. After months of declining cases, the virus is finding the unvaccinated. Adolescents as young as 12 can be

By Travis Caldwell and Deidre McPhillips, CNN US states that saw some of the country’s worst Covid-19 case rates over the past week also reported the highest number of new vaccinations per capita, data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. Tennessee, which reported the country’s worst Covid-19 cases rate,

By Amanda Sealy and Hollie Silverman, CNN With nearly 100,000 Americans hospitalized with Covid-19 and infections surging among the unvaccinated population, it’s possible another 100,000 people could die from the virus by December, according to a recent University of Washington model. “What is going on now is both entirely predictable, but entirely preventable,” Dr. Anthony

By Kristen Holmes and Aya Elamroussi, CNN Hospitals in parts of the South are running out of oxygen supply as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue soaring, driven by the swaths of people who remain unvaccinated and a dangerous coronavirus variant that has infected millions of Americans. Several hospitals in Florida, South Carolina, Texas and Louisiana

By Eric Berger, Kaiser Health News Fans of the band Wilco could have reasonably interpreted frontman Jeff Tweedy singing “I Am Trying to Break Your Heart” at an Aug. 13 concert at St. Louis Music Park as the universe explaining the past year or so. For example, 30-year-old fan Lazarus Pittman had planned to see

By Maggie Fox, CNN An unvaccinated elementary school teacher who took off their mask to read to students ended up infecting more than half of them last May — and they went on to infect other students, family members and community members, California public health officials reported Friday. It’s a prime example of how easy

By Jen Christensen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent a health advisory Thursday warning doctors and the public about the “rapid increase” in prescriptions for the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. The CDC also cautions about an increase in reports of severe illness caused by the drug to poison centers. Ivermectin is used

By Madeline Holcombe and Jason Hanna, CNN More than 100,000 people are hospitalized with Covid-19 in the US — the first time that level has been reached since January — as medical workers say they’re once again struggling to treat waves of patients. The latest figure, amid a summer surge in Covid-19 cases driven by