City Schools of Decatur is asking staff and students to wear masks again for the next two weeks until the end of the school year because of rising COVID cases.
Parents suing the Fulton County school board over the district’s former mask mandate have dropped the lawsuit, according to the attorney who was representing the 11 families.
The Justice Department says it will not appeal a federal district judge’s ruling that ended the nation’s federal mask mandate on public transit unless the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention believes the requirement is still necessary.
MARTA has announced it will no longer require riders and employees to wear masks on its trains and buses after a federal judge in Florida struck down the national mask mandate on Monday.
A federal judge in Florida struck down the mask mandate for passengers on planes, trains and other methods of public transportation on Monday, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you can go mask-free immediately.
Some parts of the country are seeing an increase in COVID-19 infections. Twenty-seven states are seeing a rise, but Georgia is not one of them at this time.
Georgia parents began speaking out - some in support, others in opposition - as more school districts began rolling back their school mask mandates Tuesday following guidance from the CDC.
Major schools districts in metro Atlanta are dropping their mask mandates after a decline in cases and the CDC issued news guidelines last week. But, not all parents are on board.
Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday.
Only CBS46 was there to capture homeowners in Fulton and DeKalb Counties as they were greeted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials surveying the community.
Georgia members of COVID Survivors For Change, told CBS46 News 1,000 empty chairs were set out to honor the nearly 10,000 Georgians and 300,000 Americans who lost their lives due to COVID-19.
Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp announced Wednesday he is working with lawmakers on legislation that would ban mask mandates in schools, allowing parents -- not school districts -- to decide what's best for their children.
It appears that Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp plans to introduce legislation that would allow parents to decide whether or not their children wear masks to school.
Dr. Matthew Oster is a cardiologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. He led a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association which shows that less than .01 percent of those vaccinated actually developed myocarditis.
Steve Rose, 36, was among the sickest COVID patients at UNC Hospital. He had no preexisting conditions and was otherwise healthy – but he was unvaccinated.
The trade group released its 2022 State of the Restaurant Industry report, saying this year is the start of a “new normal,” thanks to emerging technology and changes in consumer behavior and dining preferences.
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar will take the stage in what Pepsi is saying “could be the greatest 12 minutes of music entertainment the world has ever seen.”
U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old.
Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit against an Illinois-based COVID-19 testing company, accusing it of improperly handling tests and providing fake results.
The action by the Food and Drug Administration means the agency has completed the same rigorous, time-consuming review of Moderna’s shot as dozens of other long-established vaccines.
The website, COVIDTests.gov, allows people to order four at-home tests per household and have them delivered by mail. But the tests won’t arrive for seven to 12 days.
Novak Djokovic’s chance to play for a 10th Australian Open title was thrown into limbo after his visa was revoked a second time. Djokovic is not inoculated and had sought a medical exemption on the grounds that he had COVID-19 in December.
The recent spike in COVID-19 cases has given rise to phony websites and fake in-person testing sites used to collect personal and insurance information.
The Canadian government clarified on Thursday that all truckers who enter Canada must be fully vaccinated, whether they are Canadian citizens or foreign nationals.
The court’s orders Thursday during a spike in coronavirus cases was a mixed bag for the administration’s efforts to boost the vaccination rate among Americans.
President Joe Biden announced Thursday that the government will double to 1 billion the rapid, at-home COVID-19 tests to be distributed free to Americans, along with the most protective N95 masks, as he highlighted his efforts to “surge” resources to help the country weather the spike in coronavirus cases.
Omicron appears to cause symptoms faster than earlier variants. Some experts say that could mean people with omicron become contagious within a day after infection.
