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A World Health Organization report released last month acknowledged that WHO’s investigators had been unable to fully solve questions about the origins of the pandemic, which has killed almost 3 million people globally, including more than 561,000 Americans. Reports during…

“We started, I would say, in a position that I don’t want to find ourselves to be in the future, whatever may come next,” Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne told POLITICO in a recent interview. But even as the government works…

Of the three vaccines already in use in the United States, Pfizer’s shot is the only one now authorized for 16- and 17-year-olds. | Ted S. Warren/AP Photo Pfizer and its partner BioNTech on Friday asked the Food and Drug…

She added that the pandemic has disproportionately affected communities of color because of racism, which she defined as structural barriers that have an impact on the ways different racial and ethnic groups live. “Over generations, these structural inequities have resulted…

But despite the U.S. government’s early conversations with AstraZeneca and Sanofi, it’s unlikely that either of those companies will be among the first to start manufacturing shots aimed at variants if the need arises this year. AstraZeneca’s original shot, in…

The Trump administration also deployed a handful of Pentagon personnel to embed within Emergent’s quality control section of the plant. They are still there today. At some point in February 2021, Emergent accidentally mixed active ingredients for J&J’s vaccine with…

In his remarks, Blinken emphasized the need for American leadership and said the administration was exploring options to share more vaccine doses with other countries. Blinken said that the U.S. had loaned vaccines to Canada and Mexico so far and…

“Those in the Bronx who have no access to the Internet, have much less access to information about vaccination sites and have no real ability to participate in online registration systems,” Torres said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” For his…

The stores’ online appointment portals usually don’t make explicit how the companies will use the information customers are providing. Privacy watchdog groups and some members of Congress have expressed concern about whether the pharmacy chains will use that data for…

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Friday that Americans should still try to avoid travel because the number of Covid-19 cases are rising across the country. However, she said, traveling is lower-risk for fully vaccinated individuals. “We must balance this guidance…