Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Over the past several months while the coronavirus pandemic has raged on, one of the hardest hit sections of the U.S. population ...

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Experts say testing can identify potential outbreaks among the most vulnerable. Governors in Maryland and Tennessee this week began requiring faster and more comprehensive coronavirus testing in ...

Rep. Pat Billie Miller, (center) D-145, holds signs supporting health care workers at Golden Hill Rehab Pavilion in Milford with a group of Democratic State Senators and State Representatives Friday.

A patchwork of state and U.S. recommendations has hampered efforts to devise a uniform policy, leading to disputes over whether insurers or employers should cover testing costs. Shikilia Davis, a ...

As Covid-19 cases rise again in nursing homes, a few states have begun requiring visitors to present proof that they’re not infected before entering facilities, stoking frustration and dismay among ...

Olga Clark of Hartford (right) gets instructions from a Hartford HealthCare worker before being tested for COVID-19 at a pop-up testing site. PHOTO CT MIRROR/CLOE POISSON For months, Lurlette Newell ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — Sue McSweeney has been tested twice since Friday for Covid-19. So have her 20 employees at the Manlius Home for Adults, a small assisted living facility. Under orders from Gov. Andrew ...

Healthcare professional Kenzie Anderson grabs a test tube for a sample at United Memorial Medical Center COVID-19 testing site Friday, June 26, 2020, in Houston. The number of COVID-19 cases continues ...

California’s health department has issued new instructions to all skilled nursing facilities to test everybody in their facilities in hopes of slowing the spread of the coronavirus, a move that ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that the state will start an aggressive COVID-19 testing regime for its health employees who inspect nursing homes. The announcement came hours after ...

Pennsylvania must boost its testing numbers several times over to meet Gov. Tom Wolf's goal of administering a weekly coronavirus test to well over 100,000 people in long-term care facilities across ...