NEW YORK -- This holiday season held promise for Americans, many of whom spent Christmas 2020 in quarantine or away from loved ones due to a nasty winter COVID-19 surge. Yet in the last week or so, ...

Rapid tests are not as sensitive, meaning it's possible for patients who are infected with COVID to receive a negative result. WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that his ...

Abundant, free, rapid tests, many experts argue, are vitally important for mitigating what we know is fast becoming an endemic virus — Covid-19. But that is easier said than done. Between supply ...

The White House said on Tuesday it will ensure Americans continue to have easy access to COVID-19 vaccines, treatments and testing to contain the fast-spreading Omicron BA.5 subvariant that now makes ...

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Moderna has begun testing an omicron-specific COVID-19 booster in healthy adults. The company announced Wednesday that the first participant had received a dose. Earlier this ...

The study will be evaluated in 1,400 adults ages 18 to 55, the two companies said Tuesday. Pfizer's chief scientific officer said earlier this month that the shot would be ready in March. Pfizer and ...

WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden plans to announce on Tuesday that his administration will distribute 500 million free at-home rapid tests to Americans beginning in January to combat the surging ...

Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with the original shots. Pfizer and its partner ...