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Elsa Estrada, 6, smiles at her mother before receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif.

Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

About 3% of children in the age group authorized last week to get a low-dose vaccine will have their first shots by Wednesday, according to the White House.

United Airlines has one of the strictest vaccine mandates in the U.S., requiring all U.S. employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless granted religious or medical exemptions.

Court rules United Airlines can put workers with vaccine exemptions on unpaid leave

A group of United employees had asked the court for a preliminary injunction to block United's policy of putting workers with religious or medical exemptions on unpaid leave.

An inflatable snowman and candy canes are part of the decorations that adorn houses in Brooklyn's Dyker Heights neighborhood on Dec. 22, 2020 in New York. A shopping surge by households this year has snarled up global supply chains, and now the race is on to get products on shelves in time for Christmas.

The race is on to save Christmas as retailers fight the supply chain crunch

Retailers are racing to get merchandise onto store shelves in time for the busy holiday shopping season. But with ports and warehouses overflowing, many orders are tied up in traffic.

Welcoming family into your home for Thanksgiving? Here's how to keep COVID out

Intergenerational indoor gatherings, a.k.a, Thanksgiving dinner, still pose a COVID risk to older adults and the immunocompromised. Here's how to keep everyone safe.

NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins, seen testifying before a Senate subcommittee in May, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Collins' last day on the job is Sunday.

U.S. could see 1 million cases per day, warns departing NIH director Francis Collins

Collins is retiring after 12 years of leading the federal health agency. He parts with a warning about the dangers of yielding to pandemic fatigue. "The virus is not tired of us," he says.

National Hockey League postpones games due to COVID-19

Scott Detrow speaks with Seattle Times reporter Marisa Ingemi about COVID-19 in hockey. The NHL has postponed several games because of infections.

People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing site in Times Square, New York, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021.

COVID is again raging across the U.S. just as Americans gather for the holidays

Sporting events and live theater announced cancellations amid major increases in new coronavirus cases, in large part because of the omicron variant.

A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 PCR test at a free test site in Farragut Square on Dec. 28 in Washington, D.C. On Tuesday, the CDC revised data reflecting the prevalence of the omicron variant in new COVID-19 cases.

The CDC slashes estimates of omicron's prevalence in the U.S.

New data from the CDC released on Tuesday shows that while omicron remains the dominant variant, delta — which is the more severe strain — is still a worrisome driving force behind the current surge.

An infectious disease specialist answers our questions about the new CDC guidance

David Gura speaks with Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at NYU, about the latest on omicron, and about the CDC's relaxed guidelines for isolation and quarantine.

Dutch health authorities say they've identified early cases of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus — including one from a sample taken the week before South Africa raised the alarm about the mutated variant. Other cases were found through tests at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam.

The omicron variant was in Europe a week before South Africa reported it

The rapidly spreading variant was identified in retests of samples that were taken on Nov. 19 and 23 in the Netherlands, according to a Dutch health agency.

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