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Senators Press Moderna CEO on COVID-19 Vaccine Price Hike
Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price.
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If You Had Covid Before You Were Vaccinated, You Might Have Less Immunity Than You Think, Study Says
The study, led by Stanford University researchers, challenges prior studies that suggest a Covid infection enhances a vaccinated individual’s immune response.
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Biden Signs Legislation to Declassify Certain Intelligence on Covid Pandemic Origins
Biden signed legislation requiring the declassification of information on any possible links between a lab in China and the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Pandemic 3 Years Later: Has the COVID-19 Virus Won?
It’s been three years since the World Health Organization’s first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The anniversary on Saturday has health experts taking stock of successes and failures. The coronavirus has killed nearly 7 million worldwide and appears here to stay. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory droplets in the air, killing some victims...
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The More Attractive a Person Thinks They Are, the Less Likely They Are to Mask, New Study Finds
Masking efforts may no longer depend on the state of the pandemic. The more attractive a person feels, the less likely they are to mask, a study shows.
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Biden Proposes $1.6 Billion to Crack Down on COVID Relief Fraud
President Joe Biden’s administration is asking Congress to agree to pay more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs.
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Savannah Guthrie Tests Positive for COVID-19 During Live TODAY Broadcast
Savannah Guthrie tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 28, prompting her to leave TODAY during the morning broadcast.
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FBI Director Accuses China of Trying to ‘Thwart and Obfuscate' Covid Origin Probe
FBI Director Chris Wray said the FBI believes Covid probably originated from a “potential lab incident” in Wuhan.
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‘Died Suddenly' Online Campaign is Twisting Tragedies to Push Vaccine Lies
A growing online conspiracy theory is using the tagline “died suddenly” to baselessly claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.
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Here Are 8 Things the End of the US Public Health Emergency Could Change
Here’s a look at what will stay and what will go once the emergency order is lifted.
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Long Covid Has an ‘Underappreciated' Role in Labor Shortage, Study Finds
Long Covid has kept some people out of work for over a year, a new report finds, offering yet more evidence of the illness’ labor impact.
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FDA's Advisers Back Plan For Once-a-Year COVID Shots for Most Americans
The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus.
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Updated Covid Boosters Cut the Infection Risk From XBB.1.5 Subvariant by Nearly Half, CDC Finds
The updated Covid boosters reduce the risk of Covid infection from the predominant omicron subvariant by nearly half, according to early data published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Michigan Family Gets Life in Prison for Killing Family Dollar Guard Over Face Mask Dispute
The three were convicted of first-degree premeditated murder, a crime that carries a mandatory punishment of life in prison without parole, following a trial that spanned several weeks, The Flint Journal reported.
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Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Vaccine Mandate in 3 States
An appeals court has affirmed a ban in three states on enforcing a federal vaccine mandate for workers who contract with the federal government.
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Omicron XBB.1.5 Is Rising in U.S. Though Revised CDC Data Shows Slower Increase Than Previously Reported
XBB.1.5 made up 27.6% of sequenced Covid cases nationally for the week ending Jan. 7 compared to 18.3% for the week end Dec. 31.
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WHO Warns About Surge of COVID in China Amid Lack of Info
The head of the World Health Organization says the agency is “concerned about the risk to life in China” amid the coronavirus’ explosive spread across the country and the lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.
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Move on From COVID? Child Care Disruptions Continue
For working parents of young children, it seems the rest of the world has moved on from the pandemic. But unending illness and child care disruptions have upended these families’ lives.
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Highly Immune Evasive Omicron XBB.1.5 Variant Is Quickly Becoming Dominant in U.S. as It Doubles Weekly
XBB.1.5 now represents about 41% of new cases nationwide in the U.S., according to CDC data.
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US Will Require People Traveling From China to Take COVID-19 Test: CDC
Some scientists are concerned the COVID-19 surge in China could unleash a new coronavirus variant on the world that may or may not be similar to the ones circulating now.