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Coronavirus

Here's how to order free COVID test kits

Each U.S. household can order up to four free tests.
Nation World

RSV vaccine recommended during pregnancy as a second option to protect newborns

The recommendation comes a month after the CDC recommended another option: lab-made antibodies given to infants younger than 8 months as a way to prevent severe RSV.
Nation World

Free COVID test kits are about to be available again. Here's how to get them.

The Biden administration is aiming to prevent possible shortages during a rise in coronavirus cases that has typically come during colder months.
Nation World

Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine

CDC advisers endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months and older and the agency's director quickly signed off Tuesday on the panel's recommendation.
Coronavirus

US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall

Like earlier versions, the vaccines are expected to be most protective against severe illness, hospitalization and death, rather than mild infection.
Vaccine

The CDC did not say a new COVID strain is not more contagious among vaccinated than unvaccinated people

Social media posts claim that the CDC said a new COVID subvariant is more contagious in vaccinated people than in unvaccinated people. That’s false.
Nation World

US releases COVID-19 origin report, but agencies still disagree on how pandemic began

The different agencies of the U.S. government can't come to an agreement on how the pandemic began.
Nation World

Math scores plunge for 13-year-olds as pandemic setbacks persist

More than two years after most students returned to in-person class, there are still “worrisome signs about student achievement,” one federal official said.
GMJ

Impacting your money: COVID-19 public health emergency ends Thursday

Vaccines, treatments and at-home tests for COVID-19 will remain available, according to the CDC, but they're not guaranteed to be free.
Coronavirus

FDA: More than 500K COVID tests should be thrown out due to bacteria risk

Around 500,000 of the recalled COVID tests were distributed to CVS Health and around 16,000 were sent to Amazon for sale.
Nation World

CDC head Rochelle Walensky resigning, citing pandemic transition

Walensky was brought in to raise morale at the CDC, to rebuild public trust in the agency and to improve its sometimes-bumbling response to the COVID pandemic.