Anthony Fauci said claims he lied about certain research funding in the Wuhan lab smacked of contempt for science. By Allie Bice Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday said Sen. Ted Cruz’s call to prosecute...
By JOANNE KENEN Published in Politico Nightly ~ November 17, 2021 Joanne Kenen, a former POLITICO health care editor and a contributing POLITICO writer, is the Commonwealth Fund Journalist in Residence at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 1, 2...
By SARAH OWERMOHLE I HAD BREAKTHROUGH COVID, AND YOU CAN TOO — I was 20 months into covering the pandemic, yet when I started showing symptoms I was in denial. “Probably just a bad cold!” I texted friends as I sat on the floor with ginger ale because I was dizzy...
The selection ends the administration's lengthy search for a permanent FDA commissioner. By ADAM CANCRYN President Joe Biden on Friday nominated former Commissioner Robert Califf to lead the Food and Drug Administration, in a move that would bring the Obama-era...
Other countries have been galvanized to confront diet issues. The U.S. has had no such wakeup call. By HELENA BOTTEMILLER EVICH The same week British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to intensive care for Covid-19, two studies came out identifying obesity as...
The high-profile opening could cause headaches for an administration that is struggling with pandemic messaging as it choreographs the rollout of vaccine boosters. By SARAH OWERMOHLE and MEGAN WILSON National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins was that rare...
Competing global and national interests stand in the way of vaccine equity. BY JOSÉ MANUEL BARROSO COVID-19 may be the worst global health crisis in a hundred years, but it is only the second global crisis we have faced this century. The first, of course, was the 2009...
Their disagreement centers on whether the U.S. should eventually offer an additional shot to every vaccinated adult. By ERIN BANCO President Joe Biden’s top health advisers are split over the role booster shots should play in the next phase of the pandemic, setting up...
Unvaccinated US travelers could once again face restrictions on nonessential trips to Europe. BY HANNE COKELAERE The EU on Monday removed the U.S. from its approved coronavirus travel list following a review of restrictions. The move means unvaccinated U.S....
Marc Bernier was a mainstay on talk radio in Daytona. At what point, if ever, will the ongoing toll of Covid Delta cause a deep shift in conservative anti-vaccine and anti-masking views? We know that the numbers of people getting the vaccines are increasing...
Biden said the efforts to determine the root cause of the pandemic “will not rest.” By Myah Ward The Biden administration’s 90-day investigation into the origins of Covid-19 was inconclusive, according to an unclassified report released from the intelligence community...
By NATASHA KORECKI and TINA SFONDELES Not long ago, just talking about the idea of vaccine mandates made the White House skittish. As president-elect, JOE BIDEN said Americans would not be required to get vaccinated, and he said in April it would...
By Ryan Heath MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR— When the U.K. ended one of the world’s strictest Covid lockdowns on July 19 — 28 weeks long and the country’s third since the pandemic began — critics fearedthat Covid cases would double from around 50,000 per day to 100,000 per...
By Joanne Kenen THE DELTA IS IN THE DETAILS — For public health officials and the Biden administration, the Delta variant is the biggest communication conundrum we’ve seen in a while. Don’t panic, they tell us in one breath. Well, maybe panic a bit, they...
The French president stuck his neck out, banking that the public would support his plan. And so far, it’s been a success. BY CLEA CAULCUTT It has been a nail-biting summer for officials at the top of the French government. Would Emmanuel Macron's controversial...