Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany denied that the White House pressured the CDC into relaxing their guidelines after President Donald Trump tweeted Wednesday that he disagrees with the CDC’s “very tough & expensive guidelines for opening schools.”

The coronavirus is spreading too rapidly and too broadly for the U.S. to bring it under control, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Monday.

Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testified before Congress on Tuesday that widespread

The Centers for Disease Control released some tips on how to protect yourself from COVID-19 while visiting the beach.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused increased anxiety among pet owners. In April, the first cases of positive Covid-19 tests in U.S. domestic pets, in two cats and a dog, were confirmed, along with four tigers and three lions at the Bronx Zoo. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends that dogs, cats and other animals follow the social distancing guidelines as humans. While there’s currently no evidence...

The United States may see coronavirus cases increase in the coming weeks as states continue to reopen and Americans gather together, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, in a warning that underscored protective measures must accompany a return to daily life.

Take the stairs, not the elevator, down from your hotel room. Encourage people to bring their own food and drinks to your cookout. Use hand sanitizer after banking at an ATM. Call ahead to restaurants and nail salons to make sure staff are wearing face coverings. And no high-fives — or even elbow bumps — at the gym.

U.S. health officials have released part of some long-delayed specific guidance that schools, businesses, and other organizations can use as states reopen from coronavirus shutdowns.

Churches in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood and in suburban Niles held services this past Sunday in defiance of Illinois Gov. Pritzker’s stay-at-home order, according to Liberty Counsel, a non-profit focused on advancing religious freedom. Any religious gathering must be limited to a maximum of 10 people in compliance with social distancing guidelines, according to Centers for Disease Control and...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot updates on COVID-19 testing sites in Chicago.

Tens of thousands of crew members are stuck aboard dozens of cruise ships around the world, weeks after passengers were allowed to disembark amid the coronavirus pandemic

The coronavirus is hitting an ailing American public health system hard. No state was ready for this emergency, according to an annual review. “In every state, we’re pretty far from our optimal level of being prepared,” said Glen Mays, lead researcher for the National Health Security Preparedness Index. “We’ve had a lot of years of underinvestment. Eventually, that catches...

The new coronavirus can survive for several hours in air particles and last days on surfaces, according to a new federally funded study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers from the National Institutes of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UCLA and Princeton University examined how long COVID-19 survives in the air as well as on copper,...

Viral posts on social media claim COVID-19 is no worse than other outbreaks that have occurred in “every election year,” suggesting that the new coronavirus is being “hyped” to hurt President Donald Trump. But most of the dates cited to defend those conclusions about previous outbreaks are misleading or incorrect.

It’s abundantly clear that governors and mayors, not the federal government, have the broadest quarantine and isolation authority. That’s because the Constitution leaves that kind of police power in the hands of the states. Longstanding federal laws, and rules put in place at the end of the Obama administration, give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority to quarantine people...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday an employee of the U.S. agency tested positive for the coronavirus, the first known employee with the respiratory disease.

The spread of coronavirus and cutbacks in domestic and international airline schedules continue to raise concerns and insecurities for those with travel plans for the next few weeks and months. If your airline cancels your flight, your employer restricts business travel or an organization cancels its scheduled conference, your decision about whether to go or stay home will be made for...

As global concerns over the coronavirus outbreak grow, the U.S. is taking steps to prepare for the possibility of a pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Health authorities are closely monitoring the spread of the virus — not only in China, where the outbreak began and where the vast majority of the cases have been diagnosed…

It may be a bad flu season for kids, but early signs suggest the flu vaccine is working OK