by Jordana Choucair | Feb 22, 2022 | D.C. News
Bipartisan support is faltering for President Joe Biden’s proposal for a new $6.5 billion biomedical research agency. Republicans are concerned about spending and Democrats are divided on its organization. A core dispute is whether the Advanced Research Projects...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 22, 2022 | Providers
Rural hospital officials who expected COVID-19 vaccine mandates to cause a staffing crisis reported that they have lost just a fraction of their staff solely to the requirement. However, they also say that they are still facing significant staffing shortages – the...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
State lawmakers are introducing new legislation to roll back public health measures meant to contain the spread of COVID-19. The bills, which have been introduced in both liberal and conservative states fall into three buckets: restricting mask mandates, banning...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 22, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC has reportedly withheld much of the COVID-19 data it’s collected over the past two years. Several sources said the agency has published only a “tiny fraction” of the data it has collected, including hospitalizations by race, data on booster shots, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 21, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration officials notified Congress on Friday that they need at least $5 billion in additional funds to keep battling the COVID-19 pandemic overseas. The funding would support vaccinating the world ($2.55 billion), therapeutics and supplies ($1.7...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 21, 2022 | Life Sciences
The FDA is “very carefully” considering second booster doses of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. According to FDA spokesperson Alison Hunt, the agency is “continually looking at the emerging data on the pandemic and variants in the United States and overseas in...
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