Hurricane Erin may not be forecast to make landfall, but the sprawling Category 2 storm is still going to impact much of the East Coast as it tracks north this week. On Tuesday, North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein declared a state of emergency to prepare for the life-threatening rip currents and storm surge expected to affect the coastal region.

Millions of kindergarteners across the country are entering classrooms for the first time, five years after a pandemic that transformed their early childhoods overnight.

A new Nature study suggests infections like influenza and COVID-19 can trigger dormant cancer cells to awaken, potentially raising the risk of recurrence and metastasis.

Women infected with COVID experienced about five additional years of blood vessel aging, even if they had a mild case, according to results published Aug. 17 in the European Heart Journal. If a woman landed in the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID, her blood vessels received up to 10 years of premature aging, results show.

Since the start of the pandemic, heath authorities have kept an eye on the number of cases across the world. While the development of a vaccine means that increased cases will no longer be met with the same lockdown policies, COVID cases are still a cause for concern, especially for the unvaccinated and immunocompromised.

Updated coronavirus vaccines may not be available until mid-September, and people who are not considered high risk may not be able to access them. Coronavirus infections are climbing again, marking another summer wave as children go back to school.

The number of COVID-19 infections in North Texas is on the rise. The cases aren’t spiking at an alarming rate, but they do line up with the start of school.

About 1.7% of the state’s 63,000 kindergartners, or 1,075 kids, were exempted from required vaccinations for religious reasons during the 2024-2025 school year, continuing a steady increase of the last four years,