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Delta variant accounts for 58% of US infections; Missouri requests field hospital: COVID-19 updates Elinor Aspegren, Steven Vargas and Grace Hauck, USA TODAY COVID-19 fall surge begins early due to the rise of cases related to the Delta variant Replay Video UP NEXT Cases and deaths from COVID-19 rose in more than half of U.S. states over the past week as vaccination rates slow and the highly transmissible delta variant spreads across the globe. Forty-seven states reported more...

Just cruel at this point: Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.  In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.  A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressf...

USA TODAY A year after the nation first locked down, President Joe Biden has promised all Americans will be eligible for a vaccine by May 1, with the goal of friends and families being able to join together in small groups for Fourth of July celebrations. But in Italy, the reality of the pandemic stands in stark contrast. Much of the country was expected to go back under lockdown Monday, and the entire nation was expected to be under additional restrictions over Easter weekend. There, just ...

Just cruel at this point: Nursing homes push to reopen for visits, hugs after COVID-19 vaccine Letitia Stein, USA TODAY A Missouri man worried about his mother’s weight loss after she spent a year in a nursing home under COVID-19 lockdown without his daily peanut butter shakes.  In Florida, a devoted husband celebrated his final wedding anniversary on opposite sides of his wife’s nursing home window.  A woman in the Bronx, New York, blamed her mild heart attack on stressf...

How the CDC failed public health officials fighting the coronavirus Brett Murphy and Letitia Stein, USA TODAY © Pool, Getty Images WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 2: CDC Director Dr. Robert R. Redfield looks on while testifying at a Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing on manufacturing a Coronavirus vaccine on Capitol Hill on July 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool/Getty Images) ORG XMIT: 775529558 ORIG FILE...

The federal safety inspectors who protect kids from dangerous and deadly toys were not standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the U.S. by the shipload.  Princess palaces and playhouses, water guns and tricycles landed on store shelves and front doorsteps without the usual security checks for lead, chemicals or choking hazards.  Government leaders had secretly sent home the nation’s toy police.  The Consumer Product Safety Commission pulled its inspec...

Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP The federal safety inspectors who are supposed to protect kids from dangerous toys weren’t standing guard for nearly six months while this year’s holiday gifts entered the United States by the shipload, a USA Today investigation has found. Princess palaces and playhouses, water guns and tricycles landed on store shelves and front doorsteps without the usual safety checks for lead, chemicals or choking hazards because federal government leaders had secretly sent hom...

The FDA late Friday authorized the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use. President Donald Trump hailed it as a medical miracle. Latest COVID-19 news.

Ten months and 20 days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to a vaccine that data shows is highly effective at preventing a disease that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans.  The vaccine, from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, was developed at a historically swift pace, besting early estimates that projected it would be a year or more before a COVID-19 vaccine would be authorized. Cuttin...

Coronavirus live updates: Trump says first Pfizer vaccines will be administered in less than 24 hours Elinor Aspegren, Cara Richardson, Joshua Bote, Grace Hauck and Joel Shannon, USA TODAY Will you be required to take a COVID-19 vaccine to go back to work? Replay Video UP NEXT Ten months and 20 days after the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in the United States, the Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to a vaccine that data shows is highly effe...