While the threat is not as urgent as it used to be, there are still people getting infected with COVID-19 across the country, with infections rising during the summer. An occasion like Thanksgiving, when big groups of people spend a long time in confined spaces, represents a chance for the virus to spread.

If you feel ill but your symptoms are only above the neck — a stuffy nose, a bit of a sore throat — you could just have a common cold, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

A Harvard study found that the children of women who contracted COVID-19 while pregnant may be at an increased risk for autism and other diagnoses, raising new concerns about the CDC’s decision to stop recommending the vaccine to pregnant women.

Makary, a former professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, explained to “Pod Force One” host Miranda Devine that as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease

Research links COVID vaccination to higher acute kidney injury risk within one year, though vaccinated people showed lower overall death rates from all causes.

“If you think back to the end of January, just before COVID became a thing in the news in the United States, January, February, what was Dr. Fauci doing? He was frantically engaging in a massive cover-up with 3 a.m. emails and phone calls," Makary argued.

The University of Edinburgh-led study examined health visitor reports on 258,000 children between March 2020 and August 2021.

Nick Rolovich is set to serve as the Bears' interim head coach for their game against SMU on Saturday. He's taking the place of Justin Wilcox, the head coach who was fired by general manager Ron Rivera on Sunday after a brutal loss to rival Stanford in this year's Big Game. Wilcox had coached the last nine seasons in Berkeley.

Sean Baker's 'Red Rocket,' Kelly Reichardt's 'First Cow' and other indie titles released during COVID are coming to theaters.