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US OKs updated COVID vaccines for protection this fall

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…

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1st lady tests positive for COVID-19, Biden’s results negative

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78 charged with $2.5B in health care fraud

$200B in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen

June 27, 2023

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…

US study: 1 in 10 got long COVID after Omicron

May 26, 2023

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…

COVID pill Paxlovid gets full FDA approval

May 25, 2023

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…

WHO chief: Lack of help for Tigray crisis due to skin color

WHO says COVID-19 is no longer emergency

May 5, 2023

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…

US to left fed COVID vaccine mandates May 11

May 1, 2023

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…

Biden ends COVID-19 National Emergency

April 11, 2023

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…

Florida officials cut key data from vaccine study

April 8, 2023

The nonbinding recommendation made by Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo last fall ran counter to the advice provided by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ladapo, a Harvard-trained…

Court blocks COVID vaccine mandate for Gov’t

March 24, 2023

The appeals court rejected arguments that President Joe Biden, as the nation’s chief executive, has the same authority as the CEO of a private corporation to require employees be vaccinated.…

Biden signs bill to declassify COVID origins

March 20, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed a bill that requires declassification of information related to the origins of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, the White House said. Biden said…

COVID origins point to raccoon dogs in China

March 17, 2023

An international team of virus experts said Thursday that they had found genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, linking the coronavirus with raccoon dogs for sale there, adding…

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