Ali Juell, The Texas Tribune American households can once again order up to four free COVID-19 rapid tests to be delivered to their doorstep. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services paused the program last May but will resume orders on its website starting Sept. 25. Expired at-home tests …
Read More »Food and Drug Administration Approves COVID Boosters For Upcoming Season
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the latest round of COVID-19 boosters, as public health officials brace for another cold and flu season. An advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is scheduled to vote on recommendations Tuesday, the final step in the process …
Read More »Gov. DeSantis Urges Americans To Defy Public-Health Guidance; Attacks Trump on COVID
Michael Moline, Florida Phoenix Gov. Ron DeSantis, back in Florida amid his presidential campaign, urged Americans to defy any new federal public health guidance to wear masks, take vaccines, or engage in social distancing in light of an upsurge in COVID cases and emergence of a new viral variant. The …
Read More »Jill Biden Tests Positive for COVID-19; President, Testing Negative, Maintains Schedule
Samantha Dietel, Alabama Reflector First Lady Jill Biden tested positive for COVID-19 Monday night, the White House said in a statement. Biden has mild symptoms and will spend the week at home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, the White House said. President Joe Biden tested negative Monday night and Tuesday. He …
Read More »Updated COVID-19 Vaccines Expected To Be Available In September, Federal Officials Say
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder The Biden administration is gearing up for a fall vaccination campaign that not only includes updated COVID-19 boosters, but the annual flu shot and the newly approved RSV vaccine. “We’re going to be encouraging Americans to get their COVID-19 vaccine in addition to their annual flu …
Read More »As The COVID Public Health Emergency Ends, Prepping For A New Pandemic Is Next
Jennifer Shutt, Georgia Recorder After more than three years and 1.1 million deaths, the United States on Thursday ended the public health emergency for COVID-19 — and Congress is attempting to better prepare for a possible resurgence of that virus or another. The expiration of the designation, originally put in place …
Read More »Moderna Plan To Hike COVID Vaccine Price To $130 A Dose Rebuked At Senate Hearing
Jennifer Shutt, New Jersey Monitor The CEO of Moderna on Wednesday defended the company’s decision to drastically increase the price of its COVID-19 vaccine later this year, arguing that an expected drop in demand, changes to its distribution process and the overall benefit of the vaccine warrant the higher cost. …
Read More »Biden Signs Bill Declassifying Information On The Origin Of COVID-19
Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix The U.S. director of national intelligence has three months to declassify information on potential links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of COVID-19, after President Joe Biden signed legislation Monday. The bill was one of the first Biden has signed since a 118th …
Read More »Congress Unanimously Votes To Require Declassified Information On COVID-19 Origins
Jennifer Shutt, Florida Phoenix The divided 118th Congress approved its first bill Friday, after lawmakers in both the House and Senate voted unanimously to send President Joe Biden legislation that would require declassification of intelligence on the origins of COVID-19. The four-page bill, which the House voted 419-0 to clear, would …
Read More »President Biden To End COVID-19 Public Health Emergency In May
The two national emergency declarations dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic will end in May, President Joe Biden said Monday. The Biden administration will end both the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency on May 11, the White House informed Congress on Monday night. Doing so will have many effects, …
Read More »XBB.1.5 ‘rapidly Replacing Other COVID Subvariants’; Global Health Officials Expect Surge In Cases
Global health officials are warning of an expected surge in cases of COVID-19 in the United States and other countries as the latest, most transmissible omicron subvariant continues to circulate. That new subvariant is called XBB.1.5 and it’s been rapidly growing in the United States. Both the World Health Organization …
Read More »White House Resumes Handing Out Free COVID-19 Rapid Test Kits
Jennifer Shutt, South Dakota Searchlight The Biden administration is once again offering Americans the opportunity to order free at-home COVID-19 rapid tests from the federal government, a program that it had shuttered amid an ongoing stalemate with Congress over additional funding to address the virus. The program will allow each …
Read More »Final House Covid Panel Report Exposes ‘Reckless’ Trump Pandemic Response
A congressional panel on Friday published its final report on the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the Trump administration’s “failed stewardship” and detailing how a “persistent pattern of political interference undermined the nation’s ability to respond” to a crisis that has claimed more than a million lives in the United States. The …
Read More »White House Asks Congress For Billions In Ukraine, COVID-19 Funding During Lame Duck
Jennifer Shutt, Michigan Advance The Biden administration on Tuesday asked Congress for billions more in funding this year to address COVID-19 and the ongoing war in Ukraine, suggesting lawmakers attach it to a spending bill that must pass before Dec. 16. The $9 billion request for COVID-19 operations and nearly …
Read More »President Biden Gets Updated COVID Vaccine, Announces New COVID Initiatives
President Joe Biden received his updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday while calling on more Americans to do so ahead of the winter and holiday season. Biden was joined by leaders of major U.S. pharmacy chains Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid and Albertsons, as well as Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier …
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