Kids' reading, math skills are worsening, new test scores reveal. What's going on?
The nation's young people scored an average 5 points lower in reading than kids who tested before the COVID-19 pandemic in ...
Students aren’t recovering from covid. Test scores are getting worse.
The sobering report released Wednesday from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, sometimes called the Nation’s ...
Post-pandemic nose-dive: Why student test scores are raising alarms among parents and teachers
Kids now don't have the joy for reading they once did, and teachers have changed the way they teach writing in the digital ...
Long-COVID patients are frustrated that federal research hasn’t found new treatments
Along with claiming the lives of 1.2 million Americans, the COVID-19 pandemic has been described as a mass disabling event.
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Schools work to rebuild pre-COVID test scores as students show signs of progress
It's been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and schools are still working on getting back to pre-COVID ...
Americans Still Consider COVID Major Public Health Threat
Nearly 3 in 4 people (72%) agree COVID is still a serious public health issue, including more than a third (35%) who strongly agree, the poll found.
COVID-19: It has been five years since the first case in America. What's it like today?
Jan. 20, 2025, marks five years since the CDC reported the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 on American soil.
Long COVID Severity Linked to White Blood Cell Count
Higher levels of leukocytes – a form of white blood cell – are associated with more severe symptoms of long COVID among older ...
How did New England’s students fare on the latest Nation’s Report Card test?
We’re not seeing the progress we need to regain the ground our students lost during the pandemic,” said Peggy Carr, commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, of the NAEP test ...
Women are at ‘significantly higher risk’ of developing long COVID, especially in middle age, study finds
Long COVID remains mysterious, with health care providers unsure which symptoms can be directly attributed to a COVID-19 ...
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Lexington-Fayette County Health Department reports 168 flu, 51 COVID-19 cases
The Lexington-Fayette County Health Department reports that in the week of Jan. 18, there were 168 flu cases and 51 COVID-19 cases that were lab-confirmed and do not include at-home test kits.
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It’s been 5 years since WA’s first COVID case. Here’s what to know.
COVID-19 had killed over 1 million people in the U.S. as of June 2024. However, the state’s COVID-19 data dashboard no longer ...