With federal approval in place for toddlers to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the local Super Shot organization is scheduling appointments for children as young as six months old.
Indiana’s steep decline in serious COVID-19 illnesses over the past two months has pushed hospitalizations for the illness to the lowest level in the state since the first weeks of the pandemic.
As expected amid low COVID-19 transmission in the area, Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW) announced that they are no longer requiring face masks anywhere on campus starting next week.
At Monday evening’s board meeting, Northwest Allen County School (NACS) officials unanimously approved a resolution immediately ending the mask requirement on any school buses or vehicles for all NACS schools.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlined the new set of measures for communities where COVID-19 is easing its grip, with less of a focus on positive test results and more on what’s happening at hospitals.
Fewer hospitalizations and the reduction of COVID-19 cases locally were contributing factors in a decision by the City of Fort Wayne to drop the mask requirement in Fort Wayne-owned facilities beginning March 1.
By unanimous vote, the Northwest Allen County Schools Board on Monday passed a resolution that will end COVID-19 contact tracing and close-contact quarantines.
The number of lives lost to the pandemic in the U.S. stood at over 897,000 as of midday Friday, with deaths running at an average of more than 2,400 a day, back up to where they were last winter, when the vaccine drive was still getting started.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday continued its endorsement of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for adults, now that U.S. regulators have given the shots their full approval.
The action by the Food and Drug Administration means the agency has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review of Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines.
With new guidance from the FDA, hospitals are pivoting away from certain monoclonal antibody treatments that have been shown to not be effective against the omicron variant of COVID-19.
A federal appeals court is letting Indiana University keep its COVID-19 vaccination requirement for students in place, dealing another legal blow to a lawsuit challenging it.
Palin sued the Times in 2017, claiming the Times damaged her reputation with an opinion piece penned by its editorial board that falsely asserted her political rhetoric helped incite the 2011 shooting of then-Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he hopes it will be available within a month but that it may take a little longer.
Parkview Health is opening a clinic to treat children who have long-term symptoms after being infected with COVID-19, otherwise known as “long-haulers”.
Health care systems expect they will get more of the antibody treatments in the coming days but they will be reserved for people who are considered at the highest risk for complications connected to COVID.
The Indiana House of Representatives on Tuesday advanced HB1001, a bill that would restrict COVID-19 vaccine requirements implemented by businesses and end the governor’s public health emergency.
The Allen County Department of Health (ACDH) said Tuesday it is opening a state-run, temporary COVID-19 testing and vaccination site starting Wednesday.
The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
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