Medical experts and researchers from across the country have applauded Tennessee's COVID-19 vaccination plan, which was among the first in the nation to consider social vulnerability in distribution.

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.

A California man who told police that the coronavirus pandemic left him afraid to fly has been arrested on charges that he hid in a secured area at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport for three months.

Some juniors and seniors at Georgia's public universities and colleges are in line for a little financial boost to help them reach their degree.

As their state faced one of its toughest months of the pandemic, Tennesseans watched Gov. Bill Lee's rare primetime address to see whether new public restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus might be coming.

The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it's "not right" that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and charging that most vaccine makers have targeted locations where "profits are highest."

During Blue Ridge, Georgia, police Chief Johnny Scearce's three-month stint at CHI Memorial Hospital due to COVID-19 he had his 60th birthday, underwent countless medical interventions and won his contested election bid.

The U.K. government plans to offer a first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to every adult by September as the nation's health care system battles the worst crisis in its 72-year-history.

An announcement from the federal government that adults age 65 and up would become newly eligible for COVID-19 vaccines sent shockwaves through an already-taxed public health infrastructure as it struggles to keep up with a raging pandemic.

The Hamilton County Health Department has announced additional slots available to Hamilton County residents who are eligible to receive their first or second dose of the COVID-19 vaccination, according to a news release.

Generally speaking, restaurateurs want you to come to their place, stay awhile, eat a nice meal, enjoy a cocktail or three and spend a little money. It's how they make their living and what they enjoy.

Six hundred residents of Whitfield County ages 65 and older will get the COVID-19 vaccine at a satellite drive-thru on Monday, Jan. 18, after registration for the vaccine filled up in less than three hours once the application process was opened.

The coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out unevenly across the U.S., but four states in the Deep South have had particularly dismal inoculation rates that have alarmed health experts and frustrated residents.

People who need their second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine will be able to make an appointment to receive it beginning Friday.

Every week, the Times Free Press will publish five essential things to know about the coronavirus pandemic in the Chattanooga region.

The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in many states because of overwhelming demand for the shots.

President-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to end "a crisis of deep human suffering" by speeding up vaccines and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic's prolonged economic fallout.

Tennessee officials are trying to raise awareness about monoclonal antibodies, a potentially life-saving treatment designed to keep high-risk COVID-19 patients with mild to moderate illness out of the hospital.

When President Trump visited Dalton on the eve of one of Georgia's most consequential elections in state history, he was doing so in a county dealing with one of the state's worst COVID-19 outbreaks during one of the worst health pandemics in history.

As vaccinations continue across the U.S., some companies are offering financial incentives to encourage their workers to get the shots.

The number of people seeking unemployment aid soared last week to 965,000, the most since late August and a sign that the resurgent virus has likely escalated layoffs.

A global team of researchers arrived Thursday in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic was first detected to conduct a politically sensitive investigation into its origins amid uncertainty about whether Beijing might try to prevent embarrassing discoveries.

A state vaccination hotline was quickly overwhelmed by thousands of callers seeking immunizations during the coronavirus pandemic and "has not worked very well," but officials are trying to fix the problem, a top Alabama health leader said Wednesday.