Supreme Court extends Trump-era pandemic immigration rule to allow quicker deportations
Asylum seeking migrants from Central America sit next to a vehicle that was stopped by police after crossing the Rio Grande into Eagle Pass, Texas...
Biotechnology
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Drug overdose deaths among teenagers surged during the pandemic driven by illicit fentanyl
Drug overdose deaths among adolescents surged during the Covid-19 pandemic, driven overwhelmingly by illicit fentanyl, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control...
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Less than 50% of nursing home residents have received omicron booster ahead of expected winter Covid wave
Less than 50% of nursing home residents, one of the country’s most vulnerable populations to severe illness from Covid-19, have received an omicron booster ahead...
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Biden administration makes at-home Covid tests available for free again this winter
Take home COVID-19 self testing kits provided by the District of Columbia government, which provides city residents four free take home tests per day, are...
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Omicron BQ, XBB subvariants are a serious threat to boosters and knock out antibody treatments, study finds
Evusheld injection, a new COVID treatment that people can take before becoming symptomatic, in Chicago on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. Chris Sweda | Tribune News...
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Covid and flu hospitalizations increase as holidays approach, while RSV retreats in some states
Healthcare workers treat a Covid-19 patient on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) floor at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022....
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Children as young as 6 months old are now eligible for omicron Covid vaccines
Luca Moore, 11 months, receives a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) while his mother Dr. Danielle Smith holds him at Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s...
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Omicron subvariants that more easily dodge immunity are causing more than 70% of U.S. infections
People wait to take coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests at a pop-up testing site in New York City, July 11, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The...
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FDA authorizes Covid omicron vaccines for children as young as 6 months old
Oliver Harris, 9 months, cries after receiving a vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park,...
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Congress expected to repeal Pentagon’s Covid vaccine mandate for U.S. troops
A United States Marine receives the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at Camp Foster on April 28, 2021 in Ginowan, Japan. Carl Court | Getty Images The...
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Omicron boosters are weaker against BQ.1.1 subvariant that is rising in U.S., study finds
Covid shots designed to protect against the omicron variant trigger a weaker immune response against the rapidly emerging BQ.1.1 subvariant than the previously dominant strain,...
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Pfizer rejects Moderna claim it copied Covid vaccine, accuses rival of rewriting history
Pfizer has rejected allegations made by rival Moderna that its Covid-19 vaccine is a copy, accusing the Boston biotech company of rewriting history to lay...