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English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

Religious services. Birthday parties. Movie nights. Our usual routines and rituals may not be possible because of COVID-19. So humans are creating new ways to hold true to their past traditions.

Companies with at least 100 employees must ensure their workers get a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Some 17 million health care workers face a vaccine mandate with no testing option.

The CDC's planning guidance for states includes multiple scenarios for the rollout of a vaccine this year, including possibly having a limited number of doses available in October and November.

In 1957, residents of the southwestern town Protection set an example by being the first in the U.S. to be fully inoculated against polio. Now locals are divided on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.

Should you take that trip? How long does the virus last on surfaces? And what does it mean to "flatten the curve?"

Here are your morning headlines for Friday, May 8: Restaurants, salons to reopen; Car sales down nearly 40%; Ohio health centers to receive $17M to...

Cleveland funk and R&B band Mourning [A] BLKstar was to perform at a Bernie Sanders' rally back in March in front of thousands, but it was canceled due to early Covid-19 concerns. Members of Mourning [A] BLKstar pose onstage at the Bernie Sanders rally on March 12, which was canceled just hours before beginning due to COVID-19 concerns. [Mourning [A] BLKstar]

Major League Baseball plans to test up to 10,000 players, employees and their families to detect COVID-19 antibodies. The hope is to see how prevalent the infection rate is in the general population.

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.