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Western Washington University ended its indoor mask mandate April 11.

The university opted to extend the mandate past the statewide end on March 12 to reduce the potential spread of coronavirus following students' spring break travels.

In interviews with The Washington Post, teachers around the country shared that they were confronting similar problems, dealing with pre-kindergartners, kindergartners and elementary-school students — as well as some middle-schoolers — who arrived unprepared for the school environment. Online…

The federal requirement to wear face masks on airplanes and public transportation is scheduled to expire next week, and airline executives and Republican lawmakers are urging the Biden administration to let the mandate die.

The fate of the rule — and consideration of an alternate “…

For most of the pandemic, coronavirus surges followed a now-familiar pattern.

Cases rose first, then a few weeks later, hospitalizations followed. And after a month or so, deaths rose, too.

But during the most recent wave, fueled by the omicron variant of the coronavirus,…

2021 was the deadliest year in U.S. history, and new data and research are offering more insights into how it got that bad.

The main reason for the increase in deaths? COVID-19, said Robert Anderson, who oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s work on death statistics…

For most of this year, the rolling average for the number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered each day in the U.S. has been trending downward. But that changed recently.

For eight consecutive days ending Friday, the last day for which data is available, the average number of…

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might not even know it.

Testing and viral…

A COVID-19 patient was in respiratory distress. The Army nurse knew she had to act quickly.

It was the peak of this year’s omicron surge and an Army medical…

Whatcom County’s weekly count of new COVID-19 cases increased last week, and two more residents’ deaths were linked to the coronavirus.

Whatcom County has had 37,429 total cases (confirmed and probable combined) and 292 COVID-related deaths during the pandemic, according to the latest…

Even as the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA. 2 is increasingly dominating the U.S., an even more potentially contagious subvariant, XE, has attracted the attention of global scientists.

Early …