Coronavirus

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s mandate that requires federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The Department of Justice is appealing the decision.

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A series of clinics are popping up to help ramp up the COVID-19 vaccination effort around San Antonio.

Texas Tribune health and human services reporter Karen Brooks Harper will moderate a conversation with public health leaders from Hidalgo, Angelina and El Paso counties.

Community Labs will resume COVID-19 testing on Friday at its public collection sites after temporarily suspending service on Thursday due to the wintry weather.

Administrative Judge Rosie Alvarado issues new order suspending jury service for another month.

Let’s say you’re following all of the latest public health recommendations, trying your absolute best to keep your family and others safe from COVID-19.

Some European countries such as Spain are making tentative plans for when they might start treating COVID-19 as an “endemic” disease, but the World Health Organization and other officials have warned that the world is nowhere close to declaring the pandemic over.

A U.N.-backed group says it has signed agreements with more than two dozen generic drug makers to produce versions of Merck’s coronavirus pill to supply 105 developing countries.

Only 40% of Texas’ rural hospitals offer labor and delivery services, forcing some patients to drive hundreds of miles to give birth. With nurses in short supply, more hospitals are considering cutting those services entirely.

The city of San Antonio will open a federal COVID-19 drive-thru testing site Tuesday at the Alamodome.

Beginning Thursday, all students, staff, and visitors will be required to wear a mask while indoors.

The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week.

Community Labs will suspend COVID-19 testing on Thursday at its public collection sites due to potential freezing rain and dangerous driving conditions.

As Texas universities and colleges begin a fifth semester during the COVID-19 pandemic, many students say they are struggling with uncertainty and an indifference toward school and the future.

San Antonio Metropolitan Health District is reporting a COVID-19 positivity rate of 38.3%, a 7.3% change from last week’s rate of 31%.

University Health’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Bryan Alsip, answered some of the most-asked questions about COVID-19 and the new omicron variant, which now accounts for a majority of new cases.

A leading World Health Organization official says the worst of the coronavirus pandemic — including deaths, hospitalizations and lockdowns — could be over this year if huge inequities in vaccinations and medicines are addressed quickly.

Each week, hospitals in Texas report their current ICU bed capacity to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Here’s the latest as the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 spreads and sends unvaccinated Texans to the hospital.

The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, yet COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing.

Community Labs is scrambling to catch up on a backlog of COVID tests as the demand for testing has doubled compared to previous months.

A Harris County judge on Thursday declined to find probable cause in a child endangerment case involving a teacher who placed her COVID-19-positive son in the trunk, according to media reports.

People looking for health insurance in the grip of the omicron surge have through Saturday to sign up for taxpayer-subsidized private coverage under the Obama-era Affordable Care Act.

The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a requirement that employees at large businesses get a vaccine or test regularly and wear a mask on the job.

Here is an updated list of places where someone with symptoms of the new coronavirus can get tested.

Allee and Doris Wallace had shared 64 years together in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit San Antonio. In their 80s, they both fell ill, but only Allee was able to barely survive.

Seguin ISD schools and offices will be closed Friday due to an increase in COVID-19 cases that the superintendent said “is prohibiting us from effectively operating our schools.”

President Joe Biden says the government plans to double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans.