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For nearly two years, American officials have changed recommendations on how to manage the coronavirus. On Monday we got one of the biggest shifts yet: Infected people, who had long been told to isolate for at least 10 days, now have to isolate for only five days if they feel fine, regardless of vaccination status. On one level, this decision by the Centers for Disease Control and

With the Omicron wave subsiding, many governors are once again revising mask rules and making plans to lift mandates for the general public, and in some cases in schools. Here is a list of upcoming changes:

Delaware will end its indoor mask mandate on Feb. 11 but will keep requirements for schools through March.

Rhode Island also will lift indoor mask requirements on Feb. 11 but

Drug overdoses in the United States were deadlier than ever in 2021, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Nearly 108,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2021, and about two-thirds of those deaths involved fentanyl or another synthetic opioid.

Overdose deaths have been on the rise for years in the US, but surged amid the Covid-19

Global health organizations are considering changing their Covid-19 vaccination pledges — a move that could leave millions of people without first shots as countries reprioritize at-risk groups in the coming months, according to four people familiar with the matter.

In June 2021, the World Health Organization initially proposed that 70 percent of the world population be vaccinated by