FILE - Pharmacist Sima Manifar prepares a children's dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic at City of Lawrence's "The Center," which serves seniors, families and the community, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021, in Lawrence, Mass. Pfizer has begun a study comparing its origi…
Ballad Health reported Monday that it was treating 381 people hospitalized with COVID-19, its highest total since Sept. 21.
Ballad Health Chief Operating Officer Eric Deaton said this week the hospital system’s modeling projects the current surge in hospitalizations will peak next week, and it’s possible the number of people hospitalized with the coronavirus could exceed the peak from the September delta surge.
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to U.S. residents starting next week, now tha…
The fast-moving omicron variant may cause less severe disease on average, but COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. are climbing and modelers forecast 5…
Last week the Red Cross, for the first time, declared a national blood crisis amidst the nation’s worst blood shortage in a decade — a shortag…
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has stopped a major push by the Biden administration to boost the nation’s COVID-19 vaccination rate, a require…
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distr…
Ballad Health announced it would reinstate its vaccine mandate following a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court allowing the Centers for Medicar…
The leadership of Frontier Health has approved a plan to raise the pay and salaries of employees of the behavioral and mental health provider.
ReVIDA Recovery Centers and Ballad Health are partnering to offer free mammograms to people at ReVIDA locations in Johnson City, Morristown an…
With the highly contagious omicron coronavirus variant now the predominant strain of the virus in Northeast Tennessee, health care professiona…
ETSU Health announced Tuesday that it will extend hours at its COVID-19 testing site due to limited supply of rapid at-home tests in the regio…
ETSU Health announced Tuesday that it will extend hours at its COVID-19 testing site due to limited supply of rapid at-home tests in the regio…
Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be like flipping a light switch:…
The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters as it confronts the omicron surge, with the Food and Drug Administration allowing extra Pfizer shots f…
While doing his rotations in London, Dr. Sharan Kanakiriya realized he wanted to specialize in a field that utilized his interest in multiple …
CHICAGO — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at…
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials’ decision to shorten the recommended COVID-19 isolation and quarantine period from 10 days to five is drawi…
2021 was full of ups and downs in the local fight against the coronavirus — a year in which vaccines first became available to the general pub…
In a matter of weeks, the highly infectious omicron variant is already estimated to be the predominant variant across the Southeast, including…
Ballad Health released new data on Wednesday projecting the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 could surpass 300 by Christmas.
Project Access in Johnson City is assisting local residents who are looking to sign up for or renew their Health Insurance Marketplace plans u…
The Johnson City Public Library will host a blood drive in partnership with Marsh Regional Blood Center on Friday from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Nineteen of the deaths reported Nov. 22-Dec. 5 were in Sullivan County.
Northeast Tennessee’s recent rise in new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations is the primary driver of the statewide increase over the …
Nineteen of the deaths reported Nov. 22-Dec. 5 were in Sullivan County.
Northeast Tennessee’s recent rise in new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations is the primary driver of the statewide increase over the …
NEW YORK (AP) — All private employers in New York City will have to require their workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the mayor announ…
After two federal judges issued injunctions temporarily halting the Biden Administration’s vaccine requirements for healthcare workers and fed…
While the number of virus-related hospitalizations across Ballad Health’s facilities continues to rise, the number of vaccinated people ending…
BRUSSELS (AP) — The discovery of a new coronavirus variant sent a chill through much of the world Friday as nations raced to halt air travel, …
For the first time in nearly a month, the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 at Ballad Health hospitals surpassed 170. Hospitalizatio…
As introduced, the bill lowers the age requirement to obtain an enhanced or concealed handgun carry permit or lawfully carry a handgun in public from 21 to 18 years of age.
