Coronavirus

Fauci said small gatherings are OK, but big parties are 'strongly' discouraged.

The seven-day average of new COVID-19 cases in the U.S. was 265,427 on Tuesday, well over the previous record set in mid-January, according to Johns Hopkins.

The chief of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 40 people in the country have been found to be infected with the omicron variant so far and more than three-quarters of them had been vaccinated.

The WHO says the number of new COVID-19 cases worldwide increased by 11% last week, while newly reported deaths were down 4% globally.

On Christmas morning, Maurice Turner lost his fiancée, 30-year-old Lareesia Wright. Turner says they both caught COVID-19 in late August, despite taking the pandemic seriously.

Doctors are advising against wearing cloth masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Instead, wear a surgical mask or N-95.

UCLA was scheduled to face North Carolina State in Tuesday's 43rd annual Holiday Bowl. Tuesday afternoon the university announced it would be unable to participate.

In New York City, drugstores posted signs alerting customers that they sold out of tests. In Atlanta, drugstores ran out of home tests, and police shut down testing sites as traffic backed up a half-mile or more.

U.S. health officials cannot predict how much longer the pandemic will last, but some scientists are taking a look back on how far the world has come and what’s possibly in store for the future.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, said the U.S. should consider a vaccination mandate for domestic air travel, signaling a potential embrace of an idea the Biden administration has previously eschewed, as COVID-19 cases spike.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that the U.S. should consider a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. The U.S. currently mandates that most foreign nationals traveling to the U.S. be fully vaccinated.