Coronavirus Pandemic

The alleged health-care fraud schemes involved false billing and theft from federal programs, fake Covid vaccine cards, and Covid test kits.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday backed a second dose of the updated Covid booster for older adults and people with weakened immune systems.

U.S. regulators on Tuesday cleared another booster dose of the Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for older Americans and people with weak immune systems.

People who took Pfizer’s antiviral treatment Paxlovid shortly after infection saw a 26% lower risk of long Covid compared with those who didn’t, the study said.

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price.

The study, led by Stanford University researchers, challenges prior studies that suggest a Covid infection enhances a vaccinated individual’s immune response.

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.

Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab, international experts say.

‘It’s a way to speak back to the idea that all harm is measurable,’ according to a psychologist.

FDA staff said Pfizer’s clinical trial results on its Covid antiviral pill Paxlovid support its use in adults at high risk of progressing to severe disease. 

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 dropl...

The House has voted unanimously to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. The 419-0 vote Friday was a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. It was final approval of the bill, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Debate was brief...

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.