Posted on · Research for Long COVID used to be funded by the National Institutes of Health. Advocates are asking for at least $1 billion over the next 10 years for research funding and clinical trials.
Posted on · Experts argue other assertions made in the lawsuit filing are completely unsubstantiated, such as one claiming that vaccinated people were more likely to die from COVID-19, which Texas health data disputes.
Posted on · People will be able to go to COVIDTests.gov and get four free tests per household, starting next week. The Biden administration says it is trying to prepare for the fall and winter COVID season.
Posted on · The updated shots have a single target, an omicron descendant named XBB.1.5.
Posted on · The variant first emerged two weeks ago and has since been detected in several countries, including Denmark, Israel and the United States.
Posted on · Healthcare officials say a new booster shot could be released sometime in the fall for people who have already received COVID-19 vaccines in the past.
Posted on · Houston has been relying on federal COVID relief funds to close its budget deficits for the past few years. Bill Kelly, Mayor Sylvester Turner’s director of government relations, said Turner’s successor will have until mid-2025 to find another way to close that gap.
Posted on · The current subvariant, EG.5 Omicron, makes up the largest portion of new COVID infections across the country.
Posted on · The internationally recognized physician and scientist shares his insight on vaccines, the latest research, and the anti-vaccine movement.
Posted on · City and county officials balked at Abbott using his emergency powers to block public health measures intended to respond to the emergency. But the court ruled that state law gives Abbott the authority to do just that.
Posted on · The attacks against Hotez began after he criticized a podcast hosted by Joe Rogan and featuring Democratic presidential candidate and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Posted on · Texas appears to be the last state with a broad pandemic declaration, which was begun in 2020, still in place.
Posted on · “This signals, the transition from a pandemic to an endemic, we just to have to learn to how to deal with it.”
Posted on · The World Health Organization today lifted its Public Health Emergency of International Concern for COVID-19. That declaration went into effect three years ago on Jan. 30, 2020.
Posted on · A new omicron variant known as XBB.1.16 emerged in India, and positive cases have already been recorded in Harris County.