Graduate student Kait Nascimento, a disabled single mother living on welfare benefits, says it took her 10 days to “freak out” about Goddard College closing… ( Read More )
Pfizer feeling sting from switching selling COVID drugs on market rather than to governments
Pfizer heads into 2024 with a lower-than-expected sales forecast for its COVID-19 vaccine and treatment after weaker demand had already forced it to trim 2023… ( Read More )
Novavax shots updated and added as another U.S. option for fall COVID vaccination
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Novavax. Updated vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna began rolling out… ( Read More )
New York to shut down COVID vaccine app Excelsior Pass
NEW YORK — A $64 million mobile app used by New Yorkers during the pandemic to show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test… ( Read More )
Pentagon’s legal woes over COVID vaccine mandate persist
At the height of the global pandemic, the Pentagon in August 2021 decreed that all U.S. troops must get the COVID-19 vaccine, then launched a… ( Read More )
D.C. restaurants face cook shortages as COVID wanes
People have flocked back to restaurants in the nation’s capital as the COVID pandemic eases — but not to work as cooks. And restaurant owners… ( Read More )
N. Korea food shortage worsens amid COVID, but no famine yet
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — There’s little doubt that North Korea’s chronic food shortages worsened due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and speculation about the country’s… ( Read More )
California won’t require COVID vaccine to attend schools
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California won’t make children get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools. The California Department of Public Health said Friday it is not… ( Read More )
FDA proposes once-a-year COVID vaccinations for most Americans
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration on Monday proposed a… ( Read More )
Census: Nearly 3 million Americans cited COVID for not working last month
Nearly 3 million Americans cited COVID-19 as their reason for not working last month, according to new Census Bureau data. A projected 1,880,551 out of… ( Read More )