Category: Health

Gov. Tony Evers is changing his mind about paying people to get the coronavirus shot. Evers on Monday said Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services will offer $100 gift cards to … Read More

Negotiations have stalled between New York City’s teachers union and City Hall over a vaccination mandate for school staffers, pushing union leaders to file a formal complaint with the state. The … Read More

More than 1,200 of Indiana’s nearly 2,200 schools are not reporting their COVID-19 cases to the state this school year, health officials said Friday, as positivity rates and hospitalizations for … Read More

At Carlyle Community School District 1, a downstate district on probation for violating the Illinois mask mandate, 40 people have tested positive for COVID-19 and more than 200 students are … Read More

Despite the latest evidence that vaccinated New Yorkers are rarely contracting COVID-19 infections, some of the unvaccinated seem hellbent on remaining that way.  Just .33% of vaccinated New Yorkers tested … Read More

The Philadelphia Board of Education voted Tuesday to let Superintendent William Hite “develop and implement” a vaccine mandate for district workers. The vote was 7-0 at the virtual meeting. Maria … Read More

In just a week, more than a dozen of the country’s large urban school districts have shifted policies to require masks for all students and staff. And on Monday, the … Read More

New York City will require every education department employee to be vaccinated this school year, department officials said Monday. All 148,000 education employees will be required to receive at least … Read More

Saying the risks of quarantine outweigh the risk of disease, a Colorado school district insists it won’t report COVID cases to local public health authorities, even though state officials say … Read More