Dan Diamond

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Biden’s claim that ‘pandemic is over’ complicates efforts to secure funding

Impromptu remarks on ‘60 Minutes’ come as officials struggle to secure new funding for coronavirus vaccines, tests and treatments

‘Untrustworthy and ineffective’: Panel blasts governments’ covid response

In long-awaited report, the Lancet’s Covid-19 Commission also revives disputed claims about virus’ origins

Settling scores or telling truths? Trump-era memoirs reveal covid chaos

More than a dozen books show how officials undercut one another to win president’s approval.

Officials ‘cautiously optimistic’ about falling monkeypox cases

The worldwide monkeypox outbreak may have peaked, amid evidence that gay men are curbing risky sexual behaviors and more people are getting vaccinated

House panel: Trump sought to pressure FDA on covid vaccines, treatment

The report offers fresh details about that campaign and how it rattled agency officials.

White House speeds monkeypox vaccines, but not everyone likes the plan

Officials also strike deal to expedite 2.5 million vials by having vaccines finished in the United States, rather than Denmark.

Inside America’s monkeypox crisis — and the mistakes that made it worse

Early mistakes by the Biden administration left hundreds of thousands of gay men facing the threat of an agonizing illness and the potential for broader circulation of monkeypox.

Monkeypox vaccine maker voices concerns on U.S. dose-splitting plan

The Biden administration has adopted a strategy to stretch the nation’s limited supply of monkeypox vaccine.

Limited monkeypox vaccine supply would be stretched under FDA plan

Biden administration officials announce a new strategy to split monkeypox vaccine doses in hopes of vaccinating up to five times as many people.

Monkeypox is ‘a public health emergency,’ U.S. health secretary declares

The move comes as officials scramble to boost access to monkeypox treatments and vaccines amid rising case counts.