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June 1, 2021 at 6:04 am

Anthony Fauci’s pandemic emails: ‘All is well despite some crazy people in this world’

Reading more than 800 pages of Dr. Anthony Fauci's emails from March and April 2020 opens a window to Fauci's world during some of the...

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A security official moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China’s Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) XHG106

May 26, 2021 at 5:16 pm

Biden asks intelligence community to redouble efforts to determine definitive origin of the coronavirus

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden said Wednesday he had asked U.S. intelligence agencies to "redouble their efforts" to determine the origin of the coronavirus, an...

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May 17, 2021 at 12:52 pm

CDC’s No. 2 official to retire this summer

WASHINGTON - The CDC's No. 2 official plans to retire this summer, marking the second high-profile departure this month as the Biden administration seeks to...

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May 15, 2021 at 11:18 am

Inside the Biden administration’s abrupt reversal on masks

The huge policy turnaround caught senior White House and administration officials, medical experts, elected officials and business leaders completely off guard, and prompted some physicians...

Rochelle Walensky, Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions hearing to examine an update from Federal officials on efforts to combat COVID-19, Tuesday, May 11, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP) WX310 WX310

May 11, 2021 at 3:20 pm

CDC director encourages parents to get children vaccinated

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky urged parents to vaccinate their children now that federal officials have authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech shots for those as young as 12....

December 20, 2020 at 6:28 am

Nursing homes face daunting task of getting consent before they give coronavirus vaccines

More than 3 million elderly and infirm residents of nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities may face delays in getting coronavirus vaccines as the facilities...

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December 19, 2020 at 12:12 pm

The inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter VIEW

The coronavirus has caused proportionately more infections and deaths in the United States than in most other developed nations – a result, experts say, of...

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Workers open boxes of the first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 before putting them in a freezer, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, shortly after the vaccine arrived at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, south of Seattle. The hospital plans to start the first round of vaccinations on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) OTK OTK

December 17, 2020 at 10:46 am

States report confusion as feds slash vaccine shipments, and Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses

Officials in states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine next week had been reduced, sparking widespread confusion and...

November 30, 2020 at 6:14 pm

Atlas resigns as Trump’s coronavirus adviser after months of feuding with administration health officials

WASHINGTON - Scott Atlas, President Donald Trump's pandemic adviser who embraced a strategy of urging Americans to return to work and school with little restriction,...

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November 20, 2020 at 3:44 pm

Trump issues last-minute drug pricing rules likely to face big legal challenges

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced two sweeping drug pricing rules Friday that his administration is rushing to finalize before Inauguration Day to make good...

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