THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Troops have been deployed to London hospitals. Health care workers infected with COVID-19 are treating patients in France. The Netherlands is under a lockdown, and tented field hospitals have gone up in Sicily. Nations across Europe are scrambling to prop up ...

How do I know if I have a cold, the flu or COVID-19? Experts say testing is the best way to determine what you have since symptoms of the illnesses can overlap. The viruses that cause colds, the flu and COVID-19 are spread the same way — through droplets from the nose and mouth of ...

Alaska Airlines said Thursday it will trim its schedule by about 10% for the rest of January at it deals with “unprecedented” numbers of employees calling in sick during the current COVID-19 surge. The move by Alaska is similar to a decision last week by JetBlue Airways to cut about 1,300 ...

Hospitals across the U.S. are feeling the wrath of the omicron variant and getting thrown into disarray that is different from earlier COVID-19 surges. This time, they are dealing with serious staff shortages because so many health care workers are getting sick with the fast-spreading ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Classes were canceled for students in the nation’s third-largest district Wednesday as Chicago school leaders and the teachers union continued negotiations over safety protocols amid an explosion in COVID-19 infections. Both sides remained locked in an increasingly ...

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — While health officials in Belmont and Harrison counties still have not encountered the omicron variant, COVID case rates in both areas are skyrocketing. In Belmont County, a rate of 634 cases per 100,000 population has been recorded in the past week, according to the ...