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CHAMPAIGN (WEEK) — University of Illinois’ saliva-based COVID-19 testing model has been granted emergency use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration. The move was announced Monday by UofI officials, with Gov. JB Pritzker saying he is releasing $20 million in CARES Act funding to provide 1 million of these tests to other public universities

The Virginia General Assembly passed multiple bills allowing health care workers and first responders to receive workers’ compensation benefits if they are disabled or die due to COVID-19.

The Hawaii Department of Health reports 60 new coronavirus cases and no new deaths on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021.

Jorgensen, who never experienced symptoms, was admitted at Intermountain Medical Center’s special high-level isolation unit on Feb. 28, 2020, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention requested the transfer from a hospital in California.

Previously only hospitals were in charge of vaccinating Floridians, under 65, but extremely vulnerable to COVID-19.

Advisors to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted to endorse the emergency use of a single dose of a vaccine made by Johnson and Johnson. A study showed it was 66% effective in the U.S.

Medical personnel at the Kettering Health Network are telling patients not to delay getting a mammogram after getting the COVID-19 vaccine.

The vice president touted how President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package would benefit Black Americans hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus.

SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Public Education Department announced 24 school buildings in the state appeared on the covid-19 Watchlist for the week ending on Feb. 26. To be put on t…