Corona Virus
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76Biden picks Brooks-LaSure to run Medicare, Medicaid agency
The Obama administration vet, who helped craft the Affordable Care Act, will be charged with helping Biden expand the health care law.Read...
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83Biden admin will spend $1.6B to expand Covid-19 testing and sequencing
Health officials told reporters that $650 million will be used to increase access to testing in non-medical settings, such as K-8 schools.Read...
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78EU OKs contract for 300 million more Moderna vaccine doses
The deal provides for the possibility of donating the vaccine to lower and middle-income countries if the EU has enough supplies.Read More
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72Fauci: ‘Non-workable’ to vaccinate teachers before schools open
Fauci weighed into a heated debate on school reopening, wading where the Biden administration has often not been willing to go.Read More
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82Storms likely causing ‘widespread’ delays of vaccine shipments, CDC says
At least two shipping hubs that multiple states rely on for vaccine distribution have been affected.Read More
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119Biden admin rushes to close virus-sequencing gap as variants spread
So far, though, the federal effort is lagging.Read More
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85Social media hasn’t stopped anti-vaxxers. Now docs are fighting back.
Health care workers are organizing online networks to promote Covid shots, strategically aiming to drown out vaccine opponents active on those sites.Read...
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77CDC director: Too early for states to roll back mask mandates
“It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place,” Rochelle Walensky said.Read More
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79Moderna in talks with FDA to increase vaccine doses per vial
Doing so could alleviate limits on the final step of vaccine production.Read More
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80Biden moving to withdraw Trump-approved Medicaid work rules
Democrats long complained the rules were illegal and aimed at shrinking health coverage for poor adults.Read More