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Ashish Jha, the White House's new COVID-19 response coordinator, said an extension is "absolutely on the table."

China’s most populous city to allow ‘appropriate activity’ in areas where there have been no cases for at least two weeks

At Whitman-Walker Health, Dr. David Fessler and his staff administer high-dose influenza vaccine to all HIV-positive and senior patients. Although the vaccine is roughly three times as expensive as standard flu vaccine, it seems to do a better job at protecting those with weakened immune systems — a major focus…

Flight connections, baggage stress, tropical islands and cut-price dollars

‘We need this Covid funding, and it’s really a huge disappointment to us that the Congress has left for two weeks without passing this into law’

The rise of COVID cases in some regions of the U.S., just as testing efforts wane, has raised the specter that the next major wave of the virus may be difficult to detect. In fact, the country could be in the midst of a surge right now and we might…

US officials believe nearly 24m poultry birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, have died of flu since virus strain identified in February

A decade after New Hampshire stopped a traveling medical technician who had been stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, the Legislature might eliminate a registration system aimed at preventing similar misconduct

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (R), joined by 20 Republican and Democratic attorneys general, filed a lawsuit on March 29, 2022, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that aims to end the Biden administration’s federal mask mandate for public transport. The mandate, issued by…

Public health organizations took too long to acknowledge that Covid-19 was airborne — and it cost many lives.

President Joe Biden spent an hour with Nancy Pelosi in the two days before she tested positive for COVID-19, including an embrace and a kiss on the cheek — yet the White House insisted Thursday he doesn’t qualify as a “close contact” of the House speaker.