White House: Biden has gotten the updated COVID-19 vaccine
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…
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78 charged with $2.5B in health care fraud
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…
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$200B in COVID-19 aid may have been stolen
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…
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US study: 1 in 10 got long COVID after Omicron
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…
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COVID pill Paxlovid gets full FDA approval
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…
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WHO says COVID-19 is no longer emergency
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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US to left fed COVID vaccine mandates May 11
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…
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Biden ends COVID-19 National Emergency
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…
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Florida officials cut key data from vaccine study
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…
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Court blocks COVID vaccine mandate for Gov’t
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.…
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Biden signs bill to declassify COVID origins
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…
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