As Covid again increases, these will help you weather or prevent infection: vaccines, masks, Paxlovid, metformin, azelastine, some antihistamines, and Ensitrelvir.

Health officials are tracking elevated virus incidence.

Statewide test positivity and wastewater detections have climbed in recent weeks, though health officials say overall risk remains relatively low.

COVID-19 was linked to the reactivation of several dormant viruses in unvaccinated people, a new study has found. One of the reactivated viruses was also linked to long COVID.

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Other COVID measures remain low, but doctors have been expecting infections to increase as students return to classrooms.

Levels of COVID-19 are on the rise across most of Pennsylvania, although health experts say there’s zero cause for alarm.

A: Stay at home, the health department says. Common symptoms of COVID-19 are a sore throat, fever, and cough. To treat a mild or moderate case that’s not serious enough to go to a hospital, the antiviral medication Paxlovid is available by prescription. To be effective, the medication should be taken within five days of symptoms developing.