By Deidre McPhillips, CNN (CNN) — The US government plans to make more at-home Covid-19 tests available for free this month as the country heads into respiratory virus season with high levels of the coronavirus already circulating. Each household will be able to order another round of four free at-home test kits starting at the
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — There could be a combined Covid-19 and flu shot in our future, although it won’t be ready for this year’s flu season. On Monday, vaccine maker Moderna announced positive late-stage trial results for its Covid-flu combination vaccine it calls mRNA-1083. Calling the outcome of the late-stage trial “breakthrough results,”
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — Another new version of the Covid-19 vaccine will probably be coming this fall. The US Food and Drug Administration’s committee of independent advisers voted unanimously Wednesday to recommend that the agency tell vaccine manufacturers to update the Covid-19 shots so they will be more effective against the JN.1 lineage of the
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN (CNN) — The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday suspended funding to EcoHealth Alliance, a virus research organization tied to controversy about the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19. The agency also proposed the group be blocked from receiving federal funds in the future, possibly for years. Before Covid-19
Continue ReadingBy Hanna Ziady, CNN London (CNN) — AstraZeneca is withdrawing its highly successful coronavirus vaccine, citing the availability of a plethora of new shots that has led to a decline in demand. The vaccine — called Vaxzevria and developed in partnership with the University of Oxford — has been one of the main Covid-19 vaccines
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — COVID-19 vaccination is not linked to death from cardiac causes among previously healthy young people, according to an Oregon Health Authority study published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study, appearing Thursday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), examined nearly 1,300 deaths among Oregon adolescents and
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN (CNN) — People age 65 and older should get an additional dose of the current Covid-19 vaccine, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends. The agency’s independent vaccine advisers voted Wednesday to recommend the additional shot, and CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen endorsed the recommendation. The vote of CDC’s
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — As people across the country prepare for holiday celebrations, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging anyone who hasn’t gotten the latest vaccines against respiratory viruses to do so now to avoid getting sick and spreading illness. For the first time, there are vaccines available to protect against
Continue ReadingBy Meg Tirrell, CNN (CNN) — A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday that Covid-19 vaccines should be updated for the fall as the pandemic continues to recede from daily life but the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing its evolution. The panel of 21 advisers voted unanimously that the new
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In alignment with the federal COVID-19 public health emergency ending Thursday, state health officials announced Wednesday the lifting of health-protective measures that helped reduce COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations and deaths, and expanded access to services during the pandemic.
Continue ReadingBy Jamie Gumbrecht, Jacqueline Howard and Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 is no longer a global health emergency, the World Health Organization said on Friday. WHO’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee discussed the pandemic on Thursday at its 15th meeting on Covid-19, and WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus concurred that the public health emergency of international
Continue ReadingCNN By Deidre McPhillips, CNN Covid-19 was the fourth leading cause of death in the United States in 2022, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was the third leading cause of death in the first two years of the pandemic, but there were about half as many
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Eleven former St. Charles Health System employees are suing the organization for more than $2.5 million, claiming the hospital system violated their religious freedoms in discriminatory fashion in their unwavering requirement that they receive COVID-19 vaccinations.
Continue ReadingBy Ross Levitt and Pete Muntean, CNN One of the last remaining Covid-related travel restrictions in the United States is about to go away. Non-US travelers entering the country will no longer be required to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 beginning May 12, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday. “DHS intends to rescind these
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As COVID-19 cases, deaths and hospitalizations continue their declines in Oregon and across the country, state health officials remain hopeful that an anticipated spring infection wave triggered by virus subvariants will be short-lived.
Continue ReadingBy Katherine Dillinger and Brenda Goodman, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendations on the Covid-19 vaccines on Wednesday to allow another dose of the bivalent booster for people who are 65 and older or who have weakened immune systems and who “want the option of added protection” against the
Continue ReadingBy Tami Luhby, CNN The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday a $1.1 billion program aimed at providing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the uninsured at no cost after the federal supply is exhausted. The two-part initiative would utilize pharmacies, local health departments and federally supported health centers to provide Covid-19 care, according to a fact sheet
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As of Monday, you no longer hade to wear a mask when you visit the doctor, dentist, or any other Oregon health care provider, in most situations.
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The Oregon Department of Administrative Services announced Monday its plan to end reimbursement standards for remote work that were established during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue ReadingBy Ali Zaslav, Phil Mattingly and Manu Raju, CNN The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would end the national Covid-19 emergency declared by then-President Donald Trump on March 13, 2020. The final vote was overwhelmingly bipartisan, 68-23. The joint resolution, which cleared the House earlier this year, now heads to President Joe Biden’s
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