Alan Geller News Today

The amount of COVID-19 in wastewater across the city of Boston has risen by 23 percent over the last two weeks.

The updated COVID shots are a good match for the latest variant, JN.1., but relatively few people have bothered to get them.

Scientists may have found the reason women live longer than men. A study found men’s life expectancy in the U.S. is six years less than women’s.

Scientists may have found the reason women live longer than men. A study found men’s life expectancy in the U.S. is six years less than women’s.

Scientists may have found the reason women live longer than men. A study found men’s life expectancy in the U.S. is six years less than women’s.

Just 11% of children under age 5 are vaccinated against COVID-19, and racial disparities persist in older kids.

It’s been more than two years since COVID-19 first wreaked havoc across the globe. Despite this, the pandemic rages on across Central Massachusetts for a third summer.

Harvard Chan School experts offer comments and context about the coronavirus in a variety of media outlets.

“We need more safeguards and protections rather than fewer ones.”

More than 100 L.A. Times readers wrote in to express anger and disappointment at the paper's decision to stop publishing syndicated TV listings.