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Calls to waive the patents on mRNA Covid vaccines have gained traction globally, but experts seriously doubt that they will ever come to be.

With the emergence of omicron, the future course of the pandemic is unclear as experts struggle to understand how new variants emerge.

New York Mayor Eric Adams has appointed to a top city job an executive with ties to the Trump Organization and Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg.

Covid hospitalizations of children under 5 are rising, the CDC says, and that age group can’t get vaccines. Doctors explain how parents can protect them.

Doctors at children’s hospitals around the country are seeing more kids hospitalized with Covid than ever before.

Inflation in the euro area is unlikely to surge to levels seen in the U.S., European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Friday.

Officials from Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, Kansas and California have all announced new or renewed Covid emergency orders since the start of the month.

Fauci said younger children will likely need three doses, because two shots did not induce an adequate immune response in children 2 to 4 years old.

The masks will start to become available late next week, and the program will be fully up and running by early February, according to an official.

Infectious disease experts have warned against complacency with Covid-19, despite health officials claiming infection is practically inevitable for most people.

Every household is limited to four tests. The White House said last week it capped the number of tests people can order to ensure broad access to the program.

New infections have increased by 20% globally over the past week with nearly 19 million total cases reported, according to the WHO.

Swaminathan said the agency’s advisory group meet later this week to consider how countries should think about giving booster shots.

New York City’s seven-day average of daily new cases has dropped below 20,000.

Covid-19 will never be eradicated, but society has a chance to end the public health emergency this year, a senior WHO official has said.

Populist parties and politicians lost support all over the world during the pandemic, a survey of more than half a million people has found.

The challenges has been “with us for about a year now,” said Katrina Ell is a senior economist for Asia-Pacific at Moody’s Analytics.

Unions are calling for the Labor Department to implement improved ventilation, physical distancing and masking in workplaces.

President Joe Biden said he would urge businesses to implement the rules voluntarily.

President Joe Biden said the White House next week will announce how it is providing high-quality masks to Americans for free.