STAT+: Is there $21 billion left for Covid response, or $5 billion? The White House is using fuzzy math
WASHINGTON — How much money does the federal government still have set aside for the…
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Focus Covid booster campaigns on high-risk people, WHO’s vaccine experts recommend
A panel of experts that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine use suggested Tuesday…
‘It’s a universal experience’: Doctor who treats Boston’s homeless population on why community is vital to health
After 40 years at the helm of nonprofit Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program,…
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STAT+: 8 burning questions Bernie Sanders and other senators should ask Moderna’s Stéphane Bancel
WASHINGTON — Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel has some explaining to do. Bancel will appear alone…
STAT+: Moderna CEO made $398 million in 2022, but still pledges to give most to charity
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel is starting to reap gargantuan gains from the stock he first…
STAT+: Federal Medicaid officials cajole states to auto-enroll beneficiaries as huge coverage losses loom
WASHINGTON — Federal Medicaid officials are working unusually closely with states to avoid enrollment glitches…
U.S. pregnancy deaths dropped in 2022, after Covid spike
NEW YORK — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly…
FDA offers radio silence on question of spring Covid boosters, as other countries push ahead
Are you six months out from your Covid-19 bivalent booster and wondering when you’ll be…
Revamped Covid panel argues for research limits, even bans
WASHINGTON — Pathogen-altering research is back under fire here, as Republican lawmakers argue it should…
Listen: Pharma blockbusters, pandemic policy, & legal chicanery
Is the next Lipitor on the way? When is a pandemic over-over? And what’s a…
Opinion: Generics: a missing piece in China’s Covid-19 crisis response
China’s massive Covid-19 crisis, sparked in part by the country’s rolling back its strict zero-Covid…
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Opinion: How the Biden administration’s Covid preparedness policies could narrow America’s political divide
The White House’s Covid Winter Preparedness Plan is a missed opportunity to narrow the divide…
President Biden to end Covid-19 emergencies on May 11
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin…
WHO extends public health emergency over Covid but signals end could come soon
The World Health Organization announced Monday that the Covid-19 pandemic remains a public health emergency,…
Opinion: Death by missing data: Uncollected racial and ethnic pandemic data will drive inequities for decades to come
At every stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, national reporting of racial and ethnic disparities in…
Federal panel approves plans to safeguard lab-made virus research
A panel of federal advisers voted unanimously Friday to advance a set of proposals to…
FDA advisers recommend updating Covid vaccines
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to back a plan whereby all…
Listen: George Scangos’ retirement, annual Covid vaccines, an Alzheimer’s drug rejection
Who needs an annual Covid jab? Why did the FDA reject an Alzheimer’s treatment? And…
FDA pulls Evusheld authorization as coronavirus evolution quashes another therapy
The evolution of the coronavirus has knocked out another treatment. The Food and Drug Administration…
Live blog: Tracking the meeting of the FDA advisory panel on Covid vaccines
Fasten your seat belts, folks. We’re about to hit some turbulence. If you’re reading this,…
Updated Covid-19 booster still providing strong protection against newer variants, CDC study finds
The protection offered by the updated Covid-19 booster appears to be holding up against the…
Is WHO ready to end the global health emergency over Covid? Maybe not just yet
Three years ago, the World Health Organization declared that the mushrooming outbreak of a new…
FDA scientists propose an annual Covid shot matched to current strains
Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration propose making Covid vaccination a regular, once-a-year shot…
STAT+: A different kind of ‘RAC’ subsidized hospitals’ labor during the pandemic
Hospitals have bemoaned rising employee expenses throughout the pandemic, as they’ve paid workers more to…
HHS needs better oversight of research that alters pathogens, government watchdog says
WASHINGTON — The health department’s oversight of research that could enhance dangerous pathogens has vague…
Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down
WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19…
Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row
The percentage of U.S. kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable…
XB what? BQ huh? Do you need to keep up with Omicron’s ever-expanding offspring?
It’s like clockwork now. Every few months, we’re warned that the Omicron variant of the…
For most mild infections, long Covid symptoms clear after a year, large study finds
Since long Covid emerged, how best to define it, predict it, and treat it has…
What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool
When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets. The…
Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?
WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of…
STAT+: Still hoping for looser FDA rules, Regeneron says it will test durable antibody for Covid
SAN FRANCISCO — For months, drugmakers have been pleading with regulators to lower the bar…
The pandemic showed the power of viral sequencing. Now the U.K. plans to decode other respiratory bugs
Building on the global boom in viral surveillance during the pandemic, U.K. scientists on Tuesday…
Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee
WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with…
STAT+: Novavax replaces CEO, citing need for “fresh perspective”
The vaccine maker Novavax, which has faced several years of dramatic ups and downs around…
‘I want people to see us’: A writer gives voice to long Covid and mothering from bed
“Living With” explores the contours of life with chronic illness, from the prelude to diagnosis…
A year after a nurse’s loss to suicide, his friends are building out a peer support network
When Michael Odell, an intensive care nurse, died by suicide a year ago this month,…
Senior WHO official faults China for undercounting Covid deaths
China is underreporting deaths from Covid-19, a senior official of the World Health Organization said…
3 challenges to watch in global health in 2023
For the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic, people working in the infectious diseases…
Beijing rebukes new Covid testing requirements for travelers from China
BEIJING — The Chinese government sharply criticized COVID-19 testing requirements imposed on passengers from China…
Paying research participants — a lot — may be a key to increasing diversity in studies
Paying people to participate in medical research has been proposed as a way to narrow…
Covid’s winter surge is poised to exceed summer peak
The number of people in the United States hospitalized with Covid-19 is about to surpass…
Priorities pile up for HHS, FDA, CMS, NIH, and other health agencies
WASHINGTON — The nation’s health agencies already have a long to-do list for 2023. Top…
3 things to watch in chronic disease in 2023: obesity drugs, long Covid and health care costs
The very term “chronic disease” might imply that little changes — or improves — over…
Study could pave way for new antiviral, as China grapples with Covid wave
When Eric Xu fell sick and tested positive with Covid this month, he took pills…
STAT+: Drug companies set sights on new Covid medicines to boost depleted arsenal
It was not that long ago that the medical community had a small arsenal of…
U.S. imposes Covid testing requirements on travelers from China
The United States will require all travelers from China to show a negative Covid-19 test…
Three years on, the pandemic — and our response — have been jolting. Here’s what even the experts didn’t see coming
People who study infectious diseases and who work in public health have long known a…
U.S. life expectancy falls for second straight year as drug overdose and Covid deaths take toll
Life expectancy for Americans fell for the second straight year in 2021, largely driven by…
After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…