Six Los Angeles Police Department employees are suing the city over its requirement that they get vaccinated against Covid-19.

The LAPD said recently that about half of its 12,000 employees are vaccinated.

Some people are trying to get Covid-19 booster shots.

A surge in Covid-19 deaths caused by the highly contagious Delta variant is hitting working-age people hard while highlighting the risks for people who remain unvaccinated.

Federal data show Covid-19 deaths among people under 55 have roughly matched highs near 1,800 a week set during last winter’s surge.

These data show weekly tallies for overall Covid-19 deaths, meanwhile, remain well under half of the pandemic peak near 26,000 reached in January.

The Delta-driven Covid-19 surge is the first major case surge to spread through a partially vaccinated U.S.

High vaccination rates among the elderly, who are more vulnerable to severe Covid-19 outcomes, are restraining the overall increase in deaths, some researchers say.

The change is shifting a larger share of deaths to younger populations with lower vaccination rates, underscoring the need to get more people inoculated to curb the pandemic, they say.

In-person school is precarious, Covid-19 cases remain elevated, and the question of where we work remains in limbo.

are slowing their dining rooms’ reopenings, given the Delta-driven surge in Covid-19 infections.

More than 20 months after the pandemic began, people around the world are having to change the way they think about a disease that public-health authorities once believed they could conquer.

Instead, many expect Covid-19 will become a routine disease like a common cold or the flu, rather than a cause of mass hospitalizations and deaths.

It also would become one more disease that people might have to get regularly immunized against