An advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is meeting Tuesday to determine whether to sign off on updated COVID-19 vaccines and issue recommendations on who most needs them.
U.S. officials released an intelligence report Friday that rejected several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, instead reiterating that American spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began.
The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country’s formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The platform is no longer labeling state-controlled media and propaganda agencies, and will no longer prohibit their content from being automatically promoted or recommended to users.
Any COVID-19 vaccine requirement by public schools, state agencies or local governments would be blocked under legislation given final approval by the Georgia House on Thursday.
The FDA and CDS authorized Pfizer’s booster for kids 5 to 11-years-old and rival Moderna for those as young as 6, in hopes of bolstering protection against new, dominant versions of the virus.
The White House COVID-19 Response Team and federal public health officials lauded a new vaccine booster during a virtual briefing on Tuesday to provide updates on the COVID-19 response effort.
Gwinnett County is requiring all employees and strongly encouraging visitors to wear face masks or face coverings while inside county buildings and facilities effective July 18 in response to rising COVID-19 case numbers.
A clinic helping people work through the lingering symptoms from a COVID-19 infection has been up and running for about a year now at Memorial Health in Savannah.
Cobb & Douglas Public Health urges the citizens of both Cobb and Douglas Counties to take the necessary prevention steps to protect themselves and others from COVID-19, as the current community level for both counties has now increased to the High category.
NFL Alumni and former Falcons star Warrick Dunn is set to host a COVID-19 vaccination event right here in Atlanta. It’s all part of an effort to address vaccine hesitancy in the community.
City Schools of Decatur is asking staff and students to wear masks again for the next two weeks until the end of the school year because of rising COVID cases.
Parents suing the Fulton County school board over the district’s former mask mandate have dropped the lawsuit, according to the attorney who was representing the 11 families.
The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
MARTA has announced it will no longer require riders and employees to wear masks on its trains and buses after a federal judge in Florida struck down the national mask mandate on Monday.
A federal judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate for passengers on planes, trains and other methods of public transportation on Monday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can go mask-free immediately.
Some parts of the country are seeing an increase in COVID-19 infections. Twenty-seven states are seeing a rise, but Georgia is not one of them at this time.
Georgia parents began speaking out - some in support, others in opposition - as more school districts began rolling back their school mask mandates Tuesday following guidance from the CDC.
Major schools districts in metro Atlanta are dropping their mask mandates after a decline in cases and the CDC issued news guidelines last week. But, not all parents are on board.
Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.
Only CBS46 was there to capture homeowners in Fulton and DeKalb Counties as they were greeted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials surveying the community.
Georgia members of COVID Survivors For Change, told CBS46 News 1,000 empty chairs were set out to honor the nearly 10,000 Georgians and 300,000 Americans who lost their lives due to COVID-19.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday he is working with lawmakers on legislation that would ban mask mandates in schools, allowing parents -- not school districts -- to decide what's best for their children.
It appears that Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp plans to introduce legislation that would allow parents to decide whether or not their children wear masks to school.
