This week marks five years since March 13, 2020, the day President Donald Trump declared a national state of emergency over the novel coronavirus outbreak. The White House issued the President's ...

A day after pushing for a partial ban on face coverings, Gov. Kathy Hochul said she favored a less stringent proposal that ...

And some people do make that choice ... “The reality is we may not like wearing masks, but they do protect us from getting and giving COVID-19 and other respiratory infections,” Wohl says. Of course, ...

Lockdown orders across the country varied in their severity, reasoning and ensuing protests, from "No beer without food" ...

Heavy handed mask mandates and politically charged debates over ending them joined myriad state and federal governmental failures during the pandemic. Those pandemic-era missteps fueled the ...

We break down the biggest stories — and the ones others overlook — so you can make sense of the world, not just react to it.

Kathy Hochul is floating including legislation around mask-wearing in public in this year’s state budget ... repealed a ...

As the world marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent survey by the Pew Research Center sheds light on how Americans view t ...

Five years ago, COVID-19 brought unprecedented change to health care throughout San Diego County. While some of those changes ...

The proposal comes as bans on face masks have been put in place in other parts of the country in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.