Wednesday, January 12, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration released new guidance instructing federal agencies to start testing unvaccinated employees at least weekly for COVID-19 by February 15. The weekly testing impacts all non-exempt employees who “work onsite or interact in person with members of...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration on Monday issued rules requiring private health insurers to cover the cost of at-home COVID-19 tests. Under the policy, insurers will be required to cover the cost of eight at-home COVID-19 tests per person each month starting January 15. The...

Monday, January 10, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration will re-evaluate its decision to ship three types of monoclonal antibody treatments to states, after data showed that two of the three authorized antibodies may be ineffective against the omicron variant. David Kessler, chief scientific...

Monday, January 10, 2022: D.C. News

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that more federal pandemic relief could be included in a government funding package. According to Pelosi, the “opportunity” and “challenge” are there but that the White House has not formally asked for more...

Monday, January 10, 2022: D.C. News

Federal government agencies are preparing to take increasingly harsh steps against unvaccinated employees in order to implement President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers. Some agencies – including Treasury, Transportation, and Agriculture – plan...

Friday, January 7, 2022: D.C. News

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this morning over two of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies. The first is OSHA’s emergency vaccinate-or-test rule covering an estimated 80 million employees at large companies. The second is a...