By Jack Phillips President Joe Biden will direct the Department of Labor to develop a rule that companies with more than 100 employees will require vaccinations or once-per-week testing for…
Sharon LaFraniere and Noah Weiland WASHINGTON — Top federal health officials have told the White House to scale back a plan to offer coronavirus booster shots to the general public…
Celine Castronuovo The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced this week that it was awarding grants to five research institutions to look into reports from some women of irregular or…
By Jennifer Margulis “I’m not going to arm wrestle with the administration about where to put you,” Dr. C., a highly skilled gastroenterologist, said gently to my friend who was…
By Scott D. Jones A Florida Circuit Judge ruled Friday that Gov. Ron DeSantis had overstepped his authority when he issued an executive order banning mask mandates in the state’s…
by Asher Notheis The Texas Supreme Court struck down a mask mandate within San Antonio’s school districts Thursday, the latest rejection of a local mandate in the state as debates…
by Matthew Miller A leading Chicago police union opposed an impending mandate from Mayor Lori Lightfoot that requires all city officers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. John Catanzara, president of…
By Zachary Stieber U.S. drug regulators on Monday approved the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech for people 16 and older, making it the first such shot to receive approval…
Jaimy Lee The decision to give out extra doses of Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines pits federal health officials who say the shots may not protect people from severe disease…
insider@insider.com (Aria Bendix) Sam Reider, a musician from San Francisco, got a call from the California Department of Public Health in June. Though fully vaccinated, Reider had recently tested positive…
By Eric Mack A new study examining masks effectiveness in protecting against COVID-19 infection finds N95-style masks to be more effective than surgical masks or other cloth coverings, adding scientific…
By Matt McGregor A Washington state government worker said Gov. Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate announcement was the “last straw” in a steady decline of morale within his department. On Aug.…
