Health

As Ohio moves past the one-year mark of responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Gov. Mike DeWine delivered a statewide address Thursday in which he laid out the parameters for how the state’s health orders will end.

The nonprofit National Safety Council estimates in a report issued Thursday that 42,060 people died in vehicle crashes in 2020, an 8% increase over 2019 and the first jump in four years.

Contrary to many expectations, pandemic stay-at-home orders haven’t triggered the baby boom researchers predicted.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and state health officials came under deeper scrutiny amid revelations that seniors in a wealthy enclave in Key Largo received hundreds of life-saving vaccinations as early as mid -January, giving ammunition to critics who say the Republican governor is favoring wealthy constituents over ordinary Floridians.

Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo are now vaccinated against COVID-19 thanks to a first-of-its-kind vaccine made strictly for animals.

Physicians nationwide have noticed the COVID-19 vaccine can cause swollen lymph nodes that mammograms are picking up.