The surge is largely fueled by the highly contagious delta variant among people who are unvaccinated.

New COVID-19 cases are up almost 500% in South Dakota since the Sturgis motorcycle rally.

Republican lawmakers have opposed any legislation to extend the moratorium.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has recently been suspended from Twitter for promoting vaccine falsehoods.

Florida and Texas have banned schools and businesses from requiring that people wear masks or be vaccinated.

Kristi Noem is appearing at a motorcycle rally event in Sturgis despite spiking numbers of COVID-19 cases.

Frustrated by their leaders’ responses to COVID, doctors are taking action to change things themselves. Could 2022 be the year of the physician candidate?

New polling shows Republican messaging against vaccination requirements is not finding popular support.

GOP lawmakers are upset over re-instituted mask requirements meant to curb the spread of coronavirus variants.

Republicans are very mad that the CDC is recommending mask use again.

The number of active cases of COVID has surged over 12,770 in Arkansas, and two children were reported to have died.

Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) demanded the media ask Democrats whether they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Colorado Republican joins fellow GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene in making the offensive comparison.

The New York Republican congresswoman is comparing today’s gas prices to those from the middle of the pandemic, when gas was cheap because the country was in lockdown.

Experts warn there aren’t enough shelter beds, which means sending many people back on the streets.

The CDC reports that 150 million Americans have been fully vaccinated.

The housing crisis risks putting homeownership out of the reach of lower-income Americans.

The pandemic forced many Latinas to leave work to care not just for their children but also for extended family.

A total of 136 GOP lawmakers are demanding an end to proxy voting.

The pandemic underscored what reform advocates have been saying for years: Cramped and filthy jails are the wrong place for most people who have been arrested.

Older people are sharing their memories of the polio era with young people as a lesson of hope for emergence from COVID-19.

The South Dakota governor cited a study showing the state was the best place ‘to find a job,’ but left out other data showing it trailing behind a large portion of the country.

New Yorker Brian Walter tried to turn his guilt and grief over his father’s death from COVID-19 into positive deeds.

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) falsely claimed most Americans are already vaccinated.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is using the rhetoric to come out against safety measures at schools.

‘We have finally found the one thing that makes us more attractive — a vaccination,’ said White House COVID-19 adviser Andy Slavitt.

Some experts say the CDC is relaxing its recommendations too soon.

Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature and those aiming to replace Gov. Tom Wolf in 2023 have made Wolf their top political target, repeatedly attacking his stewardship during the pandemic.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) led nearly a dozen GOP lawmakers to take off their masks in violation of House rules.

The pandemic ‘has further exposed and exacerbated inequities in our justice system’ as legal services were curtailed, President Joe Biden wrote.