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High school football coach Charles Peterson of Columbia, S.C., is remembered as someone who looked out for others. He died of COVID-19 on Sept. 13 at the age of 46.

"Agents are already worrying about guns and knives and bombs," a former Secret Service agent says. "Now they have to worry about COVID-19."

The number of coronavirus cases is soaring in Texas, where Gov. Greg Abbott shut the state back down two weeks ago. NPR's David Greene talks to Pat Hallisey, the mayor of League City.

School districts and private schools are planning for a massive statewide COVID-19 vaccination effort of teachers and other school staff. Districts have...

Jamesha Waddell, a senior at Livingstone College in North Carolina, spent nearly two months in the hospital with COVID-19. She died in November at age 23.

A British regulatory agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Wednesday. It could be dispersed within days to the neediest people, government officials said.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last year, Cleveland ice cream shop Sweet Moses added three picnic tables in the street outside, protected from Detroit Avenue traffic by a wall of Jersey barriers. “Which may not sound like a lot, but that pretty much triples what our seating was, versus the sidewalk,” owner Jeff Moreau said. “It was really well received.” The additional tables were possible under a special city permit allowing restaurants to claim stretches of street for outdoor, socially distant seating.

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) has opted in to Ohio’s early coronavirus vaccination program for teachers and staff, aiming to move students out of remote learning and into a hybrid model “sometime in March,” according to CEO Eric Gordon. There is no guarantee on a start date for in-person learning, however, particularly with the current high rate of COVID-19 infections in Cuyahoga County, Gordon said.

A new report describes a region where hunger and malnutrition are sharply increasing — and only likely to get worse as COVID-19 pushes more people into poverty.

Mohammad Jawed was a doctor in Corbin, Ky. His daughters remember him as a gentle, selfless man who helped COVID-19 patients, before succumbing to the disease himself.