While Georgia influenza and COVID-19 rates appear to be lower than last year at this time, flu circulation has reached a level that concerns some local health officials. 

Heading into the fifth U.S. winter of COVID-19, an Emory University lab has found the presence — or absence — of a particular antibody in the nose of patients can predict how severe their illness would be.

Nursing aides feel abandoned as they grapple with mental and physical troubles that stem from their work during the COVID outbreak.

With genetic samples from the infamous Wuhan market, a new study makes the case that raccoon dogs are likely the animal that infected humans. Proponents of the lab leak theory are dubious.

Updated COVID vaccines, slated to hit shelves, could come with serious sticker shock for more than a million Georgians who don’t have health insurance. 

Starting in late September, Americans will be able to order up to four free at-home COVID-19 tests that will be delivered to your mailbox. The tests will be able to detect newer variants of the virus.

Maybe you're COVID indifferent. Or a COVID amnesiac. Or a NOVID who wants to keep your no COVID streak going. With cases rising this summer, it's time for a refresher course on how to avoid the virus.

The Food and Drug Administration gave the green light to two updated COVID-19 vaccines to protect against recent variants of the coronavirus.

This is the president's second bout with the virus. He was campaigning in Las Vegas when he found out his cold symptoms were COVID.

A surprising outcome of the COVID pandemic has been the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections. How did that happen?

This week, the dating app Bumble could not stay out of the news. First, the company launched an anti-celibacy advertising campaign mocking abstinence and suggesting women shouldn't give up on dating apps. Then, at a tech summit, Bumble's founder suggested artificial intelligence might be the future of dating. Both efforts were met with backlash, and during a time when everyone seems irritated with dating - where can people turn? Shani Silver, author of the Cheaper Than Therapy substack, and KCRW's Myisha Battle, dating coach and host of How's Your Sex Life? join the show to make sense of the mess.

Then, it's been four years since the start of the COVID pandemic. So much has changed - especially attitudes towards public health. Brittany talks to, Dr. Keisha S. Ray, a bioethicist, to hear how public health clashed with American culture - how we're supposed to live among people with different risk tolerance - and what all this means for the next pandemic.

A feasibility study underway will help decide the new model for the facility. Randolph County lost its only hospital in 2020 after decades in operation. 

As the COVID pandemic faded in 2022, U.S. life expectancy rose by more than a year. But the virus and drug overdoses spurred by fentanyl still took nearly 300,000 lives.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are Missouri, Louisiana and five individuals who were either banned from social media during the pandemic or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured.

Cases of COVID-19, RSV and influenza have declined significantly as winter moves into spring.