Berks County has added five deaths to its COVID-19 pandemic total as the county continues to see elevated case numbers amid a second omicron variant…
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Tower Health is offering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for patients ages 6 months through 5 years old by appointment at Tower Health Medical Group Pediatrics…
The latest omicron variants to enter the U.S. landscape — BA.4 and BA. 5 — have taken over and are likely keeping COVID-19 statistics elevated.…
By LINDSEY TANNER and ANGIE WANG Little Fletcher Pack woke up Monday morning and asked: “Is today vaccine day?” For the 3-year-old from Lexington, South…
Berks continues to see falling COVID-19 case numbers, so much that the county has been reduced to low risk, and the number of vaccinations have…
The number of COVID-19 cases have fallen in Berks County and across Pennsylvania and the nation in the past week, but another week will be…
The latest weekly report of the Pennsylvania Department of Health COVID-19 dashboard shows the worst of the second omicron surge in Berks County and across…
After seven weeks of extensive gains of COVID cases and reinfections in Berks County and across Pennsylvania, the most recent Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard from…
The latest vaccination statistics from the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard illustrate why health officials are concerned about the monthslong sag in vaccinations. Only…
By CARLA K. JOHNSON The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 1 million on Monday, a once-unimaginable figure that only hints at the multitudes of…
The gradual upward trend of COVID-19 cases continued for the fifth week in Berks County in the most recent Early Warning Monitoring Dashboard from the…
A decision by a federal judge in Florida to throw out a national mask mandate for public transportation across the region and the U.S. created…
By CURT ANDERSON ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge’s decision to strike down a national mask mandate was met with cheers on some…
The COVID-19 pandemic that has tightly gripped the world for more than two years is, at its root, a public health threat. The highly infectious…
Like many people, Mary Kendig has spent the last two years wading through the fear and challenges of the COVID pandemic. The threat of the…
By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MATTHEW PERRONE U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older, a step to offer extra…