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CDC Ends COVID Vaccine Advice for Healthy Kids, Pregnant Women

CDC Ends COVID Vaccine Advice for Healthy Kids, Pregnant Women/ Newslooks/ WASHINGTON/ J. Mansour/ Morning Edition/ The CDC has ceased recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for healthy children and pregnant women, as…

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COVID-19 is on the upswing in the US, Doctors say

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Older US adults should get another COVID-19 shot, advisers say

Yellen: US economic growth ‘vindicates’ Biden’s COVID-19 stimulus spending

January 17, 2024

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is pushing back against Republican criticism of the Democrats’ big coronavirus pandemic response package and making an election year pitch that the current state of the…

CDC: JN.1 variant accounts for 39%-50% of COVID cases in US, could get worse over holidays

December 23, 2023

U.S. health officials are anticipating an increase in flu and COVID-19 infections in the coming weeks, influenced by several factors, including holiday gatherings, a large number of unvaccinated individuals, and…

White House: Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine

September 23, 2023

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…

US OKs updated COVID vaccines for protection this fall

September 11, 2023

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…

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

September 5, 2023

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…

78 charged with $2.5B in health care fraud

June 28, 2023

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…

$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…

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