The U.S. flu season is underway.

Health officials say it's important to get flu and COVID-19 vaccines ahead of the holidays when respiratory bugs tend to spread.

It is always important to get vaccinated before flu season starts, but its extra important for seniors to get flu, COVID and RSV vaccines.

A regional public health department in Idaho is no longer providing COVID-19 vaccines to residents in six counties after a narrow decision by its board.

Wholesale prices in the United States were unchanged last month in another sign that inflation is returning to something close to normal after years of pressuring America’s households in the wake of COVID-19.

Six U.S. companies will spend at least $350 million to manufacture medical gowns to store in the Strategic National Stockpile.

The colder months are almost here and so are your chances of getting COVID, Flu, and RSV that’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it’s important to get your vaccinations.

Americans can once again order COVID-19 tests, without being charged, straight to their homes.

Fall means it’s time for just about everybody to get up to date on their flu and COVID-19 vaccines.

A woman in Austria has been found guilty of fatally infecting her neighbor with COVID-19 in 2021, her second pandemic-related conviction in a year, according to local media.

As your kids head back to school, the possibility of them getting sick increases, especially since Centra has seen an increase in COVID-19 cases.

Since last March, Taylor Swift has donated the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of meals to help feed the growing number of Americans grappling with rising food and housing costs.

Americans will be able to order up to four COVID-19 nasal swab tests delivered to their home free of charge starting in late September.

School attendance tanked during the pandemic and has only started to recover.

Paris Olympics organizers have issued health recommendations, but no restrictions, for dozens of athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 during the Games.

White House physician Dr. Kevin O'Connor says President Joe Biden’s “symptoms have almost resolved completely” from COVID-19.

An inquiry into the U.K. government's response to COVID-19 found it was ill-prepared for a pandemic and serious errors in planning failed its citizens.

President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 while traveling in Las Vegas and is experiencing “mild symptoms” from the infection.

As COVID-19 bubbles up in some parts of the country, health officials are setting course for a fall vaccination campaign.

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold.

A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic.

If you’re looking for a little bit of that “Top Gun: Maverick” spectacle and thrill at the movie theater this summer, you’re in luck.

The pharma giant AstraZeneca has requested that the European authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine be pulled.

Authorities say more than a dozen people suffered mostly minor injuries when a tram used for tours crashed into a railing at Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles.

Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union.

While many people who develop COVID-19 have mild symptoms that resolve in a few days, there are sufferers -- often called COVID long haulers -- who experience effects for anywhere from weeks to even months after the virus has left their bodies.

The nation’s top public health agency is expanding a program that tests international travelers for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

We’re entering a new era of COVID-19 with the CDC officially dropping their five-day isolation guidelines.

Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses.

U.S. health officials say Americans with COVID-19 no longer need to stay in isolation for five days.

Pulaski County school leaders are addressing the outbreak of illnesses in the New River Valley community.

A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts.

Flu is hanging on in the U.S., intensifying in some areas of the country after weeks of an apparent national decline.

Almost four years since the start of the pandemic, chronic absenteeism continues to be a problem in our local schools.

For some people with COVID-19, antiviral pills that can be taken at home can lessen the chances of winding up in the hospital.

10 News spoke with health leaders to find out where sickness stands in the region.

The number of COVID-19, flu and RSV cases has decreased in Roanoke.

Most Americans have already had COVID-19 at least once with infections lasting a few weeks, but roughly 10 percent of patients have never fully recovered.

Local doctors are seeing a high number of patients with respiratory illnesses, particularly with Covid-19 and influenza. The latest update from the Roanoke City Alleghany health district is that influence activity appears to be stabilizing at a high level across Virginia. While Covid-19 is often associated with the lungs, local doctors say it could lead to serious heart damage.

With the new year came a high number of cases of respiratory illnesses. According to the CDC, in the week ending on Dec. 30, there were more than 1,000 new hospitalizations due to COVID-19.

Pulaski County Public School officials have made it their mission to recover what learning was lost during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pakistan’s prime minister has called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation.

The flu season in the U.S. is getting worse with 38 states reporting high or very high levels for respiratory illnesses.

The Natural Bridge Zoo case court hearing has been postponed to Tuesday, Jan. 9 at 1 p.m., due to the defense attorney being sick with COVID-19.

More U.S. hospitals are requiring masks and limiting visitors as health officials face a post-holiday spike in flu and other illnesses.

Local doctors are warning about a rise in respiratory illnesses.

U.S. health officials say flu and COVID-19 infections are expected to ramp up in the coming weeks.

Doctors are urging people to get their vaccinations as COVID-19, flu and RSV are on the rise nationwide, including here in Virginia.

U.S. health officials say flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections may be peaking.

U.S. life expectancy rose last year, but it still isn’t close to what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic.

A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!”.

According to the Virginia Department of Health, COVID-19 and flu cases are on the rise across the region.

The U.K.'s chief medical adviser says Britain’s government was too late in taking action against the coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.

Americans can order four free COVID-19 tests again online.

New research is underway on long COVID, a prolonged illness after a coronavirus infection, and how it impacts our community.

The Supreme Court says it will indefinitely block a lower court order curbing Biden administration efforts to combat controversial social media posts on topics including COVID-19 and election security.

The Central Virginia Health District will conduct the study about long COVID and its local impact

Customers may need a dose of patience at U.S. pharmacy counters as those businesses start their busiest season.

Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future.

The White House says President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and the annual flu shot.

The Biden administration has announced that it is providing $600 million in funding to produce new at-home COVID-19 tests and is restarting a website allowing Americans to again order up to four free tests per household.

The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.

Republicans are responding to a late summer spike in COVID-19 by raising familiar fears that government-issued lockdowns and mask mandates are on the horizon.

Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

President Joe Biden turned up in a mask for the first time in months on Tuesday, a day after his wife tested positive for COVID-19.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority in a campaign against the use of a drug that is not approved to treat COVID-19.

Rumors of a COVID-19 outbreak on social media raises parents' concerns for in-person learning.

COVID-19 cases are on the rise in Virginia, according to data from the Virginia Department of Health.

John McEnroe has COVID-19 and is missing time as ESPN’s lead tennis analyst for its U.S. Open television coverage.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is planning to request more money from Congress to develop another new coronavirus vaccine, as scientists track new waves and hospitalizations rise, though not like before.

COVID-19 has taken a toll on the nation's heart health but how profound is only starting to emerge.

COVID-19 hospital admissions are inching upward in the United States since early July.

The National Institutes of Health is starting some studies to test possible treatments for long COVID.

A U.K. court has rejected the British government’s request to keep former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and diaries from being made public at an official COVID-19 inquiry.

China says 239 people died from COVID-19 in June in a significant uptick months after it lifted most containment measures.

A new U.S. intelligence report rejects several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

Asian shares are mostly lower as some investors take a wait-and-see attitude after U.S. markets were closed for a national holiday.

Gov. Youngkin's office says fentanyl is the leading cause of unnatural deaths in the state.

Ashish Jha, the White House’s point person on the COVID-19 response, will depart from the administration next week.

A U.S. study suggests 1 in 10 people are getting long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic.

U.S. health regulators have given full approval to Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill Paxlovid.

Lawmakers in several states are looking to loosen child labor laws, even as the federal government cracks down on surging violations.

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has tested positive for COVID-19 for the first time after returning home from work trips in Africa and Asia.

The World Health organization declared earlier this month that the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer an emergency, putting a three-year end to the virus that killed at least 7 million people and turned the world upside down.

A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief has been sentenced to more than two years and three months in prison.

Pandemic-era rules on COVID-19 testing for White House journalists are being loosened as the public health emergency declaration expires Thursday.

The COVID-19 national emergency order ends May 11, meaning funding for several programs at TAP are coming to an end.

Top U.N. officials and health industry leaders are demanding that the world invest more to develop new vaccines and tackle a surge in tuberculosis fueled by the impact of COVID-19 and conflicts including Ukraine and Sudan.

The World Health Organization says COVID-19 is no longer a global emergency but the coronavirus is here to stay.

The World Health Organization says that COVID-19 no longer qualifies as a global emergency.

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

Mexican officials are crowing about the country finally developing its own COVID-19 vaccine, more than two years after inoculations from the U.S., Europe and China were rolled out.

The COVID-19 public health emergency is coming to an end.On May 11, the federal government will lift the health emergency order.

Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled a hospital couldn't be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge did not cite a legal basis for ordering the facility to administer ivermectin.

The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.

A major milestone, just over three years since COVID-19 prompted lockdowns, the federal government will lift the public health emergency order.

Chinese health officials have defended their search for the source of the COVID-19 virus and lashed out at the World Health Organization after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic and other information earlier.

The White House is defending President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 after a federal appeals court blocked it.

President Joe Biden has signed a bipartisan bill that directs the federal government to declassify as much intelligence as possible about the origins of COVID-19 more than three years after the start of the pandemic.

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues.