COVID-19 News

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, (D-Pa.), joined the non-profit group Cradles to Crayons to discuss families' need for diapers and other childcare items in light of ongoing inflation.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey and other officials gathered Monday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to help OraSure Technologies, a developer and manufacturer of point-of-care diagnostic tests and specimen collection devices, celebrate its new Lehigh Valley location.

Infectious disease expert Dr. Jeffrey Jahre says the booster is safe, but still questions its effectiveness.

Knowing when and why to use a rapid test can help in limiting infections.

If stores have them, they're limiting how many customers can buy.

The new variant is responsible for three quarters of all new cases in the U.S.

Now only fully-vaccinated visitors will be allowed.

Doctors repeat, the best way to stay out of the hospital is to get vaccinated and then get a booster.

The best defense against the omicron variant is still vaccination or and/or a booster shot, officials say.

Between masking and vaccines, conditions are ripe for a dramatic jump in new cases.

Nearly 87 percent of cases in the middle and high schools are in students who haven't been vaccinated.

The ruling comes as COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations rise dramatically in Pennsylvania.

People are suffering from the delta variant and hospital beds are filling up.

Pa. is among the top in the nation for people hospitalized with COVID-19.

St. Luke's officials say more than 80 percent of hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated.