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Michael Bryand, 35, first got Covid in September 2020. “I never really got better,” he said in a sit-down interview with CNBC. “I had symptoms that stayed with me and that are still with me.” Bryand, who was working at Wells Fargo in San Antonio at the time, went on short-term disability and then long-term

Holly Francis, a volunteer with Boston Medical Center helped to plant some of the 20,000 purple flags in the Common that commemorate Overdose Awareness Day and kick off Recovery Month. Each purple flag represents one life lost to overdose in Massachusetts over the past 10 years. Jessica Rinaldi | Boston Globe | Getty Images Deaths

In this article TWTR Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Elon Musk’s Twitter account displayed on a mobile with Elon Musk in the background are seen in this illustration. In Brussels – Belgium on 19 November 2022.  Jonathan Raa | Nurphoto | Getty Images In a recent update to its website, Twitter said that effective

China’s capital city of Beijing is one of the hardest hit in the latest Covid wave. Pictured here is a health worker outside a locked down apartment complex on Nov. 27, 2022. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Mainland China reported the first decline in daily Covid infections in more

The name mpox, otherwise known as Mpox, was chosen after the WHO launched a public consultation process earlier this year. Orlando Sentinel | Tribune News Service | Getty Images The World Health Organization said Monday that it would begin referring to monkeypox as mpox in an effort to reduce stigma around the name of the

Demonstrators against Covid restrictions hold blank sheets of paper during a protest in Beijing in the early hours of Monday, Nov. 28. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Rare protests broke out across China over the weekend as groups of people vented their frustration over the zero-Covid policy. The unrest came as infections

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, speaks during a briefing on COVID-19 at the White House on November 22, 2022 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Images The nation’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said the U.S. is “certainly” still in the middle of a Covid-19 pandemic and he is

A person receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 22, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The omicron BQ coronavirus subvariants have risen to dominance in the U.S. as people gather and travel for the Thanksgiving holiday, putting people with compromised immune

A woman uses her smartwatch while sitting in the gym. Artem Varnitsin / Eyeem | Getty Images Fitness trackers, which help keep tabs on sleep quality, heart rate and other biological metrics, are a popular way to help Americans improve their health and well-being.  There are many types of trackers on the market, including those

A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The new omicron Covid boosters probably aren’t very effective at preventing Covid infections and mild illness, but they will

[The stream is slated to start at 11:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday will give what is expected to be his last public briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic as White House chief medical advisor. Fauci is leaving the

Boxes of the medication Mifepristone used to induce a medical abortion are prepared for patients at Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters The abortion pill is the most common method to terminate a pregnancy in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The

Only a few vehicles, including one with two health workers, drive through Beijing’s central business district on Nov. 23, 2022, as the area has announced tighter Covid controls. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Images BEIJING — Mainland China reported more than 31,000 Covid infections for Wednesday, including cases without symptoms. That surpassed

A nurse holds up a one dose bottle and a prepared syringe of measles, mumps and rubella virus vaccine made by Merck at the Utah County Health Department in Provo, Utah. George Frey | Getty Images A growing number of children around the world are vulnerable to measles as vaccination rates have declined to the

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday reflected on the U.S. response to the Covid-19 pandemic in what was likely his last public briefing as the nation’s top infectious disease expert. Nearly three years after Covid-19 first arrived on America’s shores, Fauci said he never imagined the pandemic would last so long and take so many lives.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus during the White House press briefing on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Tom Williams | Cq-roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday that he will fully cooperate with House Republicans

Kazuma Seki | Istock | Getty Images Doctors are calling on the Biden administration to declare an emergency in response to an “alarming surge” of children hospitalized with respiratory syncytial virus and flu this season. The Children’s Hospital Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics warned President Joe Biden and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra in

In this article PFE Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT A staff member draws up a syringe with the Comirnaty vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer adapted to the Omicron-BA.1 variant at the Mainz vaccination center. Sebastian Christoph Gollnow | dpa | Picture Alliance | Getty Images Pfizer said its omicron booster triggers a stronger immune

A sign advertising flu shots is displayed at a Walgreens pharmacy on January 22, 2018 in San Francisco, California. A strong strain of H3N2 influenza has claimed the lives of 74 Californians under the age of 65 since the flu season began in October of last year. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images A variant of

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