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Connecticut’s COVID-19 public health emergency is ending on Thursday and there will be changes to testing and vaccinations. The declaration was enacted by Governor Ned Lamont at the immediate onset of the pandemic on March 10, 2020. It is scheduled to expire on Thursday, which is the same day the federal public health emergency declaration is set to end. Lamont’s…

Brazil’s Federal Police searched former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and seized his phone Wednesday in what they said was an investigation into alleged falsification of COVID-19 vaccine cards.

The Biden administration will end Covid vaccine mandates for federal employees, contractors and air travelers on May 11.

Mexico’s president has suspended a tour of the Yucatan peninsula after acknowledging he tested positive for the coronavirus, having previously suffered two bouts of COVID-19.

The research shows it may be possible to retrain the brain to recover its sense of smell.

The alleged health-care fraud schemes involved false billing and theft from federal programs, fake Covid vaccine cards, and Covid test kits.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday backed a second dose of the updated Covid booster for older adults and people with weakened immune systems.

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price.

The study, led by Stanford University researchers, challenges prior studies that suggest a Covid infection enhances a vaccinated individual’s immune response.

Biden signed legislation requiring the declassification of information on any possible links between a lab in China and the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It’s been three years since the World Health Organization’s first called COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The anniversary on Saturday has health experts taking stock of successes and failures. The coronavirus has killed nearly 7 million worldwide and appears here to stay. It spreads easily from person to person, riding respiratory droplets in the air, killing some victims...

Masking efforts may no longer depend on the state of the pandemic. The more attractive a person feels, the less likely they are to mask, a study shows.

President Joe Biden’s administration is asking Congress to agree to pay more than $1.6 billion to help clean up the mess of fraud against the massive government coronavirus pandemic relief programs.

Savannah Guthrie tested positive for COVID-19 on Feb. 28, prompting her to leave TODAY during the morning broadcast.

FBI Director Chris Wray said the FBI believes Covid probably originated from a “potential lab incident” in Wuhan.

A growing online conspiracy theory is using the tagline “died suddenly” to baselessly claim that COVID-19 vaccines are killing people.

Here’s a look at what will stay and what will go once the emergency order is lifted.

Long Covid has kept some people out of work for over a year, a new report finds, offering yet more evidence of the illness’ labor impact.

The U.S. is poised to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like a yearly flu shot, a major shift in strategy despite a long list of questions about how to best protect against a still rapidly mutating virus.

The updated Covid boosters reduce the risk of Covid infection from the predominant omicron subvariant by nearly half, according to early data published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.