Older U.S. adults should roll up their sleeves for another COVID-19 shot, even if they got a booster in the fall, an influential government advisory panel said Wednesday. The panel…
President Joe Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine and annual flu shot, the White House said Saturday. The Associated Press has the story: White House: Biden has gotten the…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target a recently circulating Omicron variant of the coronavirus, paving the way…
First lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday while President Joe Biden remains negative for the virus, the White House said. The first lady is “currently experiencing only…
The Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has recently charged 78 people with $2.5 billion in separate health-care fraud and opioid abuse schemes. The defendants allegedly defrauded programs used…
More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives, according to new estimates from a federal watchdog investigating federally funded programs that helped small businesses…
About 10% of people appear to suffer long COVID after an omicron infection, a lower estimate than earlier in the pandemic, according to a study of nearly 10,000 Americans that…
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday granted full approval to Pfizer’s oral antiviral COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, clearing the way for the drugmaker to sell it at market rates…
The spread of Covid-19 is no longer a global public health emergency, the World Health Organization declared on Friday. “For more than a year, the pandemic has been on a…
The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said…
President Joe Biden signed into law a Republican-backed resolution that immediately terminates the coronavirus national emergency first declared in March 2020. The measure ends the national emergency a month earlier…