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FILE - A medical worker reacts as police officers and pedestrians cheer medical workers outside NYU Medical Center in New York, April 16, 2020. Some states that stockpiled millions of masks and other personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic are now throwing the items away. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

States trashing troves of masks and pandemic gear as huge, costly stockpiles linger and expire

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FILE - Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, receives a flu vaccine from Nurse Practitioner Whitney Goggans at the Atlanta Press Club, where Cohen spoke about health issues, Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, in Atlanta. Cohen says the U.S. is in our strongest position yet to avoid another chaotic respiratory season. There will be a lot of virus this winter. Thats why we want to get ahead of it. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)

Updated COVID shots are coming. They’re part of a trio of vaccines to block fall viruses

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Updated COVID-19 shots are coming soon, part of a trio of fall vaccines that doctors hope will help avoid another “tripledemic."

Gov. Ron DeSantis holds a news conference in Jacksonville.

DeSantis and Florida surgeon general warn against new COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday criticized recent efforts across the U.S. to tamp down a recent jump in COVID-19 cases through temporary restrictions or masking and his state surgeon general warned against getting the latest COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected to be available this month.

FILE - Syringes with vaccines are prepared at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. A new U.S. intelligence report rejects several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab. It instead reiterates that American spy agencies remain divided over how the pandemic began. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)

US intelligence report on COVID-19 origins rejects some points raised by lab leak theory proponents

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A new U.S. intelligence report rejects several points raised by those who argue COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab.

FILE - Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Gorsuch called emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans perhaps the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country. The 55-year-old conservative justice pointed to orders closing schools, restricting church services, mandating vaccines and prohibiting evictions in a broadside aimed at local, state and federal officials, even his colleagues. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

COVID emergency orders are among `greatest intrusions on civil liberties,’ Justice Gorsuch says

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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says emergency measures taken during the COVID-19 crisis that killed more than 1 million Americans were perhaps “the greatest intrusions on civil liberties in the peacetime history of this country.”.

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FILE - A man walks through the snow covered Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Mount Lebanon, Pa., on Monday, Jan. 23, 2023. U.S. deaths fell in 2022, as COVID-19 fatalities dropped by half from 2021 and the coronavirus dropped from being the nation's third leading cause of death to the fourth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the 2022 numbers on Thursday, May 4, 2023, cautioning that they are preliminary and may change a little after further analysis. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

COVID dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US last year

Read full article: COVID dropped to 4th leading cause of death in US last year

U.S. deaths fell last year, and COVID-19 dropped to the No. 4 cause.

FILE - A syringe of of ivermectin a drug used to kill worms and other parasites intended for use in horses only, rests on its box in Olympia, Wash., on Sept. 10, 2021. Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, May 2, 2023, that a hospital could not be forced to give the deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court won't order ivermectin use for COVID

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Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled a hospital couldn't be forced to give a deworming drug to a patient with COVID-19, saying a county judge did not cite a legal basis for ordering the facility to administer ivermectin.

Visitors gather near a portrait of Sun Yat-sen, who is widely regarded as the founding father of modern China, at Tiananmen Square during the May Day holiday period in Beijing, Sunday, April 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese who reported on COVID to be released after 3 years

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Chinese authorities are preparing to release a man who disappeared three years ago after publicizing videos of overcrowded hospitals and bodies during the COVID-19 outbreak.

FILE - People are silhouetted against the sky as the sun sets Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. According to a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 27, 2023, the first years of the pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex. Teen sex was already becoming less and less common before COVID-19. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Pandemic sent high school sex to new low, survey finds

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The first years of the COVID-19 pandemic saw a huge decline in high school students having sex.

FILE - Mexican President Andres Lopez Obrador stands at the National Palace during a ceremony in Mexico City, Sept. 20, 2022. Lopez Obrador suspended a tour of the Yucatan peninsula Sunday, April 23, 2023, after acknowledging he tested positive for the cornavirus, having previously suffered two bouts of COVID-19. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Mexico's president admits he briefly fainted due to COVID-19

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Mexico’s president has acknowledged he did “briefly faint” over the weekend before he was diagnosed with COVID-19, something his spokesman had previously denied.

FILE - A passenger arrives from overseas at the arrivals hall of Haneda international airport in Tokyo, Nov. 8, 2021. Japan will lift its coronavirus border controls and no longer require entrants to show pre-departure negative tests and records of triple vaccinations beginning Saturday, April 28, 2023, as the countrys Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists are expected. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan to lift COVID-19 border controls before holiday week

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Japan will lift most of its coronavirus border controls, including a requirement that entrants show proof of three vaccinations or a pre-departure negative test, beginning Saturday as the country’s Golden Week holiday season begins and a large influx of foreign tourists is expected.

FILE - Tombstones mark graves at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Portsmouth, Va., Tuesday, March 23, 2021. The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, new research suggests. Stroke death rates increased for both Black and White adults in 2020 and 2021, according to a study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, April 20, 2023. But the difference between the two groups grew about 22%, compared to the five years before the pandemic. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Racial gap in US stroke deaths widened during pandemic

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The longstanding racial gap in U.S. stroke death rates widened dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A nurse administers a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss., Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. U.S. regulators on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, cleared another COVID-19 booster dose for older adults and people with weak immune systems so they can shore up protection this spring while taking steps to make coronavirus vaccinations simpler for everyone else.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Extra COVID-19 booster now open to some high-risk Americans

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Older Americans and people with weak immune systems can get an extra COVID-19 booster dose this spring.

FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the State Dining Room of the White House on April 4, 2023, in Washington. The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic ended Monday, April 10, as Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden ends COVID national emergency after Congress acts

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The U.S. national emergency to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic has ended.

COVID-19 antigen home tests are photographed in New York on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. When the COVID-19 public health emergency ends in the U.S. in May 2023, you'll still have access to a multitude of tests but with one big difference: who pays for them. For the first time, you may have to pick up some or all of the costs, depending on your insurance coverage and whether the tests are done at home or in a doctor's office. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison)

Free COVID testing will fade with US health emergency in May

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Big changes could be coming for how Americans pay for COVID-19 tests.

FILE - Christian musician Sean Feucht of California sings to the crowd during a rally at the National Mall in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)

Takeaways from AP’s report about financial allegations against worship leader Sean Feucht

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Sean Feucht, a conservative Christian worship leader, gained attention in 2020 by defying COVID-19 restrictions with protest concerts.

San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. watches his grand slam during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Fernando Tatís Jr. returns from bout with COVID-19 to hit a grand slam in the Padres' playoff push

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Fernando Tatís Jr. says he fell ill with the COVID-19 virus several days ago, which meant he had to watch the party from his couch when the San Diego Padres clinched a playoff spot Monday.

FILE - Chinese Premier Li Qiang, right, shakes hands with Director-General of the World Trade Organization Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, in Tianjin, ahead of the annual World Economic Forum New Champions meeting Monday, June 26, 2023. (Wang Zhao/Pool Photo via AP, Filer)

China's Xi takes a step back, putting a lieutenant in the limelight at UN meeting

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Chinese leader Xi Jinping is skipping this week's U.N. General Assembly, with Premier Li Qiang speaking instead.

FILE - A YouTube sign is shown near the company's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, file)

YouTube to start bringing back creators banned for COVID-19 and election misinformation

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YouTube will offer creators a way to rejoin the streaming platform if they were banned for violating COVID-19 and election misinformation policies that are no longer in effect.

Clinic support supervisor May Fengmei Lin, CMA, displays a syringe of the Fluarix flu vaccine at International Community Health Services, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

West Coast states issue joint vaccine recommendations ahead of CDC advisers meeting

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Four Democratic-led Western states announced joint recommendations Wednesday about who should be vaccinated for seasonal respiratory viruses, including the flu and COVID-19, saying the Trump administration has jeopardized public health by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., joined at left by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters after meeting about Republican efforts to cut health care spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies

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There’s bipartisan support in Congress for extending tax credits that have made health insurance more affordable for millions of people since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Operation Warp Speed was one of Trump's biggest achievements. Then came RFK Jr. and vaccine skeptics

Read full article: Operation Warp Speed was one of Trump's biggest achievements. Then came RFK Jr. and vaccine skeptics

President Donald Trump launched Operation Warp Speed during the COVID-19 pandemic, and, as recently as last week, praised it as a major achievement.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., appears before the Senate Finance Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Takeaways from RFK Jr.'s contentious hearing before Senate lawmakers

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Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. faced bipartisan questioning over recent changes to health agencies, vaccine approvals and other priorities at a contentious three-hour Senate hearing.

FILE - This photo combination shows, from left, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, Jan. 31, 2024, in Salem, Ore., Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson, Jan. 27, 2025, in Seattle and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Aug. 21, 2025, in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, Lindsey Wasson, Godofredo A. Vsquez)

Washington, Oregon and California governors form alliance in rebuke of Trump administration

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The Democratic governors of Washington, Oregon and California have created an alliance to safeguard health policies, believing the Trump administration is putting Americans’ health and safety at risk by politicizing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Crystina Page, back, hugs a well-wisher outside the El Paso County Courthouse after a judge ruled against accepting a plea deal in the case of a funeral home owner who stored roughly 189 decomposing bodies in a building Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado judge rejects plea deal for funeral director who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses

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A Colorado judge has rejected a plea agreement for a funeral home owner who acknowledged abusing 191 corpses.

CORRECTS THAT OFFICER WAS KILLED, NOT WOUNDED - A memorial is seen in the aftermath of a shooting near the CDC where DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed while responding, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia man may have tried to enter CDC campus two days before he attacked agency

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An internal CDC email reveals that the Georgia man who shot at CDC buildings on Aug. 8 likely tried to enter the campus two days earlier.

CORRECTS THAT OFFICER WAS KILLED, NOT WOUNDED - A memorial is seen in the aftermath of a shooting near the CDC where DeKalb County Police Officer David Rose was killed while responding, Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

CDC shooting marks latest in a string of hostility directed at health workers. Many aren't surprised

Read full article: CDC shooting marks latest in a string of hostility directed at health workers. Many aren't surprised

Gunfire aimed at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by a man authorities say was angry over COVID-19 vaccines is the latest in a string of violence and harassment directed at health care workers amid hostility lingering from the pandemic.

People leave flowers Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, at a makeshift memorial in honor of David Rose, the officer who was killed in the shooting at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Charlotte Kramon)

CDC union condemns vaccine misinformation after shooter blamed COVID vaccine for depression

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A Georgia man who blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him suicidal has been identified as the person who fired shots at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters.

FILE - President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 15, 2020, in Washington. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, and Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a 'medical miracle.' Now RFK Jr. is halting advancement

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President Donald Trump once hailed mRNA vaccines as a "miracle" for combating COVID-19.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks as President Donald Trump listens at an event to promote his proposal to improve Americans' access to their medical records in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

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The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

FILE - David Nabarro, World Health Organisation Special Envoy for Covid-19 Prevention and Response, poses after he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George during an investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London, Friday March 3, 2023. (Victoria Jones/Pool via AP, file)

David Nabarro, British physician who led UN response to Ebola and COVID-19, dies

Read full article: David Nabarro, British physician who led UN response to Ebola and COVID-19, dies

Dr. David Nabarro, a British physician who led the U.N. response to some of the biggest health crises in recent years, including bird flu, Ebola and the coronavirus pandemic, has died.

This combination of photos boarding Air Force One shows President Donald Trump, left, April 29, 2025, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., and President Joe Biden, April 16, 2024, at Wilkes-Barre Scranton International Airport in Scranton, Pa.. (AP Photo)

Trump's pace of early travel largely mirrors Biden's, but with more sports events and golf

Read full article: Trump's pace of early travel largely mirrors Biden's, but with more sports events and golf

Moving at the “speed of Trump” is one of the White House’s favorite phrases, but when it comes to presidential travel, Donald Trump’s pace is about the same as that of his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media, Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses

Read full article: Charges dropped against Utah doctor accused of throwing away $28,000 in COVID vaccine doses

The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.

FILE - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign event Nov. 1, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Doctors and public health organizations sue Kennedy over vaccine policy change

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Doctors groups and public health organizations are suing the U.S. government over the decision to stop recommending COVID-19 vaccinations for most children and pregnant women.

Crystina Page, right, hugs Beth Mosley, who both had retained the services of a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies, after the owner was sentenced to 20 years prison on federal fraud charges, Friday, June 27, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decaying bodies sentenced to 20 years in prison

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A federal judge has sentenced a Colorado funeral home owner who stashed nearly 190 decomposing bodies to 20 years in prison on federal fraud charges.

This September 2022 photo provided by the World Food Program shows internally displaced people at the ZamZam camp in El Fasher, North Darfur state, Sudan. (Leni Kinzli/WFP via AP)

World Bank warns that 39 fragile states are falling further behind as conflicts grow, get deadlier

Read full article: World Bank warns that 39 fragile states are falling further behind as conflicts grow, get deadlier

The world’s most desperate countries are falling further and further behind, their plight worsened by conflicts that are growing deadlier and more frequent.

FILE - A shopper selects a carton of 18 Large Grade A eggs from a cooler in a Costco Warehouse in Cranberry, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

Americans sour on US economy and anxiety over tariffs remains the chief culprit

Read full article: Americans sour on US economy and anxiety over tariffs remains the chief culprit

Americans’ view of the economy worsened in June, wiping out much of the previous month’s gain which followed a string of declines that had dragged consumer confidence to its lowest level since the COVID-19 pandemic five years ago.

FILE - Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard, left, and teammate Matteo Jorgenson, of the U.S., wear face masks to protect themselves from the Corona virus prior to the start of the fourteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 151.9 kilometers (94.4 miles) with start in Pau and finish in Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d'Adet, France, July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

What to know about the COVID variant that may cause ‘razor blade’ sore throats

Read full article: What to know about the COVID variant that may cause ‘razor blade’ sore throats

A new COVID-19 variant may be causing “razor blade” sore throats in people who get it.

In this photo released by the Iranian Red Crescent Society rescuers work at the scene of an explosion after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (Iranian Red Crescent Society via AP)

Middle East conflict threatens to exacerbate inflationary pressure on some things

Read full article: Middle East conflict threatens to exacerbate inflationary pressure on some things

Israel’s attack on Iran has catapulted their long-running conflict into what could become a wider, more dangerous regional war and potentially drive prices higher for both businesses and households.

FILE - Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., asks questions during a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing May 14, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool via AP File)

Ex-congressman Billy Long confirmed as commissioner of the IRS, an agency he once sought to abolish

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Former congressman Billy Long of Missouri has been confirmed to lead the Internal Revenue Service, an agency he once sought to abolish.

FILE - A sign is displayed on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif., Sept. 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval and antitrust uncertainty

Read full article: Google offers buyouts to more workers amid AI-driven tech upheaval and antitrust uncertainty

Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire.