The acting commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told a top White House official their agencies may not be able to approve a more expansive booster plan.
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U.S. covid death toll hits 1,500 a day amid delta scourge
‘A perfect storm of viral changes and behavioral changes,’ is driving pandemic’s fourth wave in the United States.
House committees step up investigation into FDA approval of controversial Alzheimer’s drug
The agency’s accelerated approval of the medication was welcomed by some advocates and doctors as a step forward in treating the devastating disease but strongly criticized by many experts who say the medication hasn’t been shown to be effective.
FDA to meet with outside advisers on coronavirus booster shots Sept. 17. That’s just days before the shots are expected to become available.
The session, which will be public, could add clarity and transparency to a decision-making process that some people have criticized as confusing.
A church camp didn’t require vaccinations or masks. It’s now linked to 180 covid cases, CDC says.
The church camp outbreak fueled by the highly transmissible delta variant occurred at the Crossing Camp in Rushville, Ill., which did not urge teens to be vaccinated or masked.
Tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid for hospitals and nursing homes sits unused
The Biden administration has not handed out additional provider-relief money designated by Congress last year.
Doctors dismayed by patients who fear coronavirus vaccines, but clamor for unproven ivermectin
Promoted by conservative talk show hosts, politicians and even some physicians as an effective treatment for covid-19, the medication has soared in popularity despite having no proven anti-viral benefits — and also some clear harms.
A hospital refused to give ivermectin to a covid patient. Then a judge ordered doctors to administer it.
Butler County Judge J. Gregory Howard ordered West Chester Hospital to treat Jeffrey Smith, 51, with ivermectin for three weeks, as requested by his wife.
They’re called mild cases. But people with breakthrough covid can still feel pretty sick.
Those cases can be as modest as a few days of sniffles, but, in other circumstances, can spawn debilitating headaches and fatigue.
FDA facing demands to snuff out Juul’s e-cigarettes
The agency is supposed to decide by Sept. 9 whether the embattled company — and many other e-cigarette manufacturers — will be allowed to keep selling their products and, if so, under what conditions.
