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Starting Monday, American households can request four additional free at-home Covid-19 test kits through the Biden administration’s website.

Health officials see Novavax’s protein-based vaccine as a valuable alternative for people who don’t want to take messenger RNA shots from Pfizer and Moderna.

Los Angeles County’s top health officials rolled up their sleeves and received updated COVID-19 booster shots Wednesday as they urged residents — particularly those in groups at risk of severe illness from infection — to receive the new inoculations now that they are available locally.

LA County is reopening more COVID-19 vaccine sites and is encouraging vulnerable communities to get the inoculation. Karma Dickerson reports for the NBC4 News on Sept. 27, 2023.

Reports of people being denied insurance coverage for the latest Covid vaccines emerged last week as the shots were rolled out to pharmacies

The Biden administration said it has resumed offering free at-home Covid tests Monday. Here’s how to order tests for your household.

As cases and hospitalizations climb in the U.S., government officials are bringing back a program that brings free COVID tests mailed directly to residents.

Americans will soon be able to use COVIDtests.gov to request four free tests, the Biden administration said in a release. 

Updated Covid boosters from Pfizer and Moderna will soon be administered at pharmacies, and many other locations across the U.S.

Everyone ages 6 months and older should get the updated Covid vaccine this fall, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

The end of expanded financial assistance from the Covid-19 pandemic has wiped out progress made by the U.S. in fighting child poverty.

A panel of CDC advisers voted Tuesday to recommend updated Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus booster shots for everyone ages 6 months and up.

The Biden administration said it expects the new Pfizer and Moderna vaccines targeting the omicron variant XBB.1.5 to be available in mid-September. 

A Milwaukee street gang called the “Wild 100s” allegedly stole millions of dollars in Covid unemployment benefits.

In a brief statement carried by state media, the State Emergency Epidemic Prevention Headquarters said those returning to North Korea will be put in quarantine for a week for “proper medical observation”

Officials are already expecting updated COVID-19 vaccines that contain one version of the omicron strain, called XBB.1.5.

Hundreds of people have been charged with the theft of more than $830 million in COVID-19 emergency aid following a nationwide operation conducted by federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday.

The next booster is slated to be available in the fall. Here’s what doctors are saying to those wondering if the new shots will be covered by insurance.

If you’ve made it this far without ever getting sick from Covid, you may have your genes to thank. 

More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 relief initiatives.