A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Ler...
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Covid infections plummet 90% from U.S. pandemic high, states lift mask mandates
A resident receives a Covid-19 swab test during a mobile clinic at Saint Paul MB Church in Cleveland, Mississippi, on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2022. Rory Doyle | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. health official...
California lays out plan to live with Covid for the long-term, fight future surges and new variants
A COVID-19 testing location is shown set up on the sidewalk in downtown Los Angeles, California, November, 16, 2021. Mike Blake | Reuters California on Thursday laid out a plan that manage Covid as a ...
CDC wants to give people a break from wearing masks as pandemic improves, director says
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the ...
Babies are protected from hospitalization for Covid if their moms get vaccinated, study suggests
Michelle Melton, who is 35 weeks pregnant, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, February 11, 2021. Hanna...
Senate confirms Biden FDA pick Califf, despite objections to drug industry ties
Robert Califf testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. Bi...
Moderna, Pfizer stocks fall as Covid omicron wave subsides in U.S.
Moderna vaccines are prepared for application at a United States military vaccination centre at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021 in Ginowan, Japan. Carl Court | Getty Images Shares of the major Covid vac...
FDA plan to fast-track Pfizer vaccine for kids under 5 fails
Parents of children under 5 will have to wait until at least April to get their kids vaccinated against Covid-19, after the Food and Drug Administration and Pfizer this week abruptly delayed plans to ...
No one knows when the pandemic will end after omicron upended most hope
Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health official...
European countries scrap Covid rules despite warnings it’s too soon
A pedestrian zone in Oslo on Feb. 2, 2022, after Norway scrapped most of its Covid restrictions. Terje Pedersen | NTB | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — Several European countries are scrapping Covid regul...
FDA committee votes against Eli Lilly cancer treatment over concerns trials conducted only in China
The outside of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters is seen in White Oak, Md. Al Drago | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images A Food and Drug Administration committee on Thursday recommended against f...
Inflation, high gas prices contributing to financial anxiety
Gasoline prices are displayed at a Los Angeles gas station on Feb. 8, 2022. Mario Tama | Getty Images As inflation climbs to historic highs, rising gasoline and other consumer prices are among America...
New York Gov. Hochul expected to lift indoor mask mandate
[The stream is slated to start at 11:15 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to drop the state’s strict indoor ...
Financial anxiety is high. Why financial planners may miss the signs
The Covid-19 pandemic has made it difficult for people to answer big questions about their futures, and many financial planners are underestimating the financial anxiety that is causing, according to ...
CDC tells health officials to expect first shipments of young kids’ Covid shots by Feb. 21
A healthcare worker prepares to administer Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines at an elementary school vaccination site for children ages 5 to 11-year-old in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 22, 20...
Pfizer CEO says chances are ‘very high’ FDA will approve low-dose Covid shots for kids under 5
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla on Tuesday said he believes the Food and Drug Administration will authorize the company’s Covid vaccine for children under 5 years old under a fast-track process that al...
WHO says new omicron BA.2 subvariant will rise globally
RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Ge...
Pfizer (PFE) earnings Q4 2021
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla addresses a press conference after a visit to oversee the production of the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine at the factory of U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer in Puurs, Bel...
Though rare, Moderna Covid vaccine recipients have higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer
Moderna’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is associated with a higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer’s, but the benefits of both companies’ shots outweigh the risks, according to a...
Moderna’s Covid vaccine for teens awaits OK as regulators review heart inflammation risk
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images For months, the authorization of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for teenagers has been o...
Merck (MRK) earnings Q4 2021
Merck sold $952 million of its Covid-19 treatment pill molnupiravir in the fourth quarter, saying Thursday it’s on track to sell another $5 billion to $6 billion more this year. Most of its sale...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
WHO says the new omicron subvariant doesn’t appear to be more severe than the original
WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel c...
BA.2 more contagious, but vaccinated less likely to spread it, study finds
A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 test at testing site in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images The omicron BA.2 subvariant i...
How some small businesses have survived the Covid pandemic without them
The storefront of Mark Shriner’s small business, The Coffee House, in downtown Lincoln, Nebraska. Courtesy: Mark Shriner Mark Shriner needed help. It was spring 2020, and his coffee shop in Linc...
The new BA.2 omicron subvariant is already circulating in half of U.S. states
Dr. Pierre Coulon, PhD examines microscope images of vaccinated mice in Irvine on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. Leonard Ortiz | MediaNews Group | Orange County Register via Getty Images There are alrea...
60 million U.S. households have ordered free Covid tests, White House says
Home test kits, specifically iHealth COVID-19 Antigen rapid self-tests, are stacked for delivery in Boston on Jan. 5, 2022. Lane Turner | Boston Globe | Getty Images The White House on Friday said 60 ...
Populist nations fared much worse during Covid outbreak, research says
Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister, delivers a speech at the Fidesz party headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, on April 8, 2018. Akos Stiller | Bloomberg via Getty Images Risk of death from Co...
Moderna starts clinical trial of booster shot targeting omicron Covid variant
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Giorgio Companies site in Blandon, PA where the CATE Mobile Vaccination Unit was onsite to administer Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines...