By ANNE FLAHERTY and CHEYENNE HASLETT, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- It’s the million dollar question everyone is asking: When will life return to normal? And will school be open this fall?The answers are all over the map -- from Texas and Mississippi governors declaring their states already open and lifting…
By SOO RIN KIM, ERIN SCHUMAKER, MARK NICHOLS and EVAN SIMON, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Jorge Figueroa was willing to drive eight hours round trip.He wasn't going on vacation or to visit a relative.Instead, he was planning to get a life-saving shot to protect him from COVID-19 -- a shot…
By ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Appointments at a federally run vaccination hub at Chicago's United Center opened on Thursday, with the first shots there scheduled to be given next week. It will be the first site in Cook County to offer the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against…
By DR. TARUN JAIN, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The number of children and adolescents with COVID-19 in Mississippi may be more than 10 times the number of previously reported cases, according to a new study.Pediatricians have previously suggested that because children are more likely to have COVID-19 without showing…
By IVAN PEREIRA and ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- The U.S. would never be the same after March 2020.While the novel coronavirus had been in the country for at least a month, in March cases began to jump at alarming rates as did the hospitalizations and deaths. Former…
By MARLENE LENTHANG, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Five states -- Texas, Mississippi, Iowa, Montana and North Dakota -- have ended, or soon will end, statewide mask mandates, despite the looming threat of COVID-19 and highly transmissible variants.They're joining 11 other states -- Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma,…
By DR. MAIA OU, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 still puzzles researchers, but the public release of a new database may help scientists solve some of the mysteries lingering around this devastating disease.An international team of researchers from institutions including Boston Children's Hospital and…
By NASIR MALIM, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- As larger numbers of people recover from COVID-19, researchers are learning more about "brain fog" in those affected by the virus.For months, doctors and researchers have been aware of a range of longer-term symptoms afflicting people after recovering from an active COVID-19…
By SASHA PEZENIK, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- With Johnson & Johnson vaccines on their way across the country, a longstanding dilemma for religious conservatives is being revived: much of the research for coronavirus inoculations relies on the use of material derived from human fetal tissue -- something they have…
By ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- Four former surgeons general are joining a campaign calling for a National Vaccine Day to "focus our nation's attention on the importance of vaccination."In a letter exclusively obtained by ABC News, the doctors call on President Joe Biden to consider enacting the…
