"The Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization to the first Covid-19 test that can detect the coronavirus in a breath sample, within a few minutes and with a high degree of accuracy, the agency said _...Read More_

“Black Americans have not been sufficiently included in long Covid trials, treatment programs and registries, a new report says. Fewer than 800 coronavirus deaths are being recorded in the United States each day, the lowest since before the _...Read More_

"The Senate on Tuesday narrowly confirmed Dr. Robert Califf as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, a key federal agency that has been without a permanent chief for more than a yearlong stretch of the coronavirus pandemic."

"The authorization of the treatment, bebtelovimab, means that the United States now has four drugs available for high-risk Covid patients early in the course of their illness that have been found to neutralize the Omicron variant. While _...Read More_

"Pfizer and its partner, BioNTech, asked the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to authorize two doses of their coronavirus vaccine for children younger than 5 while the companies continue to research whether three doses would be more _...Read More_

"The Food and Drug Administration granted full approval on Monday to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine, the second-most widely used in the United States and the second to receive full regulatory approval."

Dr. Peter Marks, who oversees the agency’s division that regulates vaccines, said that the risk of myocarditis was substantially lower after a booster dose than after a second dose, citing U.S. safety monitoring data. The benefits of a _...Read More_

"Federal officials are wrestling with a decision that could go a long way toward determining the future of the controversial new Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, and whether significant numbers of patients use it."

>"Covid-19 claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in the United States in 2020, driving a record increase in the death rate and a drop in life expectancy of nearly two years, according to final 2020 death data from the US Centers for _...Read More_

"Gabby Petito's cause of death was ruled to be strangulation and the manner of death was homicide, Teton County Coroner Dr. Brent Blue said on Tuesday."

[https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/01/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/01/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html) >"A pill has cut the risk of hospitalization or death from Covid-19 by half in a study, Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics said Friday."

The Atlantic: How Endemic COVID Becomes a Manageable Risk.

A public-health expert on what the Delta variant means for Americans.

“He believed that the authorities were ‘out to get him’; that Judgment Day was imminent; that the 9/11 terrorist attacks were ‘fake’; that the Earth was flat; that he was a ‘prophet’; and that vaccines were ‘of the Devil,

>"On the eve of Biden’s inauguration, the pandemic’s toll has reached nearly 24 million cases and 400,000 deaths."