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Do Covid tests work after they expire? What to know as case counts rise across the US

Some, but not all, at-home tests have been given extended expiration dates by the FDA

The Independent UK

Do Covid tests work after they expire? What to know as case counts rise across the US

Some, but not all, at-home tests have been given extended expiration dates by the FDA

The Independent UK

Do Covid tests work after they expire? What to know as case counts rise across the US

Some, but not all, at-home tests have been given extended expiration dates by the FDA

The Independent UK

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Do Covid tests work after they expire? What to know as case counts rise across the US

Some, but not all, at-home tests have been given extended expiration dates by the FDA

The Independent UK

Jill Biden has Covid and is experiencing ‘mild symptoms’. Here’s what her treatment may look like

President Biden has so far tested negative for the virus, the White House says

The Independent UK

Trump’s Covid czar warns Americans are dangerously underestimating surge: ‘2 or 3 of your friends have it’

Dr Birx, who served as White House Covid response coordinator under Donald Trump, said Americans are living in ‘a bit of a fantasy world’ and ‘pretending that Covid is not relevant’

The Independent UK

What the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency means for you

Ending the federal emergency reflects both a scientific and political judgment that the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis has ended and that special federal resources are no longer needed to prevent disease transmission across borders.

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What does ending the emergency status of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US mean in practice? 4 questions answered

The COVID-19 pandemic’s public health emergency status in the U.S. expires on May 11, 2023. And on May 5, the World Health Organization declared an end to the COVID-19 public health emergency of international concern, or PHEIC, designation that had been in place since Jan. 30, 2020.

The Conversation

We can't keep up with COVID's mutations

The FDA is allowing additional bivalent shots — but a new study suggests they don't work as well as they used to

Salon

COVID will eventually evade Paxlovid, former White House advisor Deborah Birx says

She worries that the virus' evolution is outpacing U.S. development of vaccines and treatments—and that it could soon render popular antiviral Paxlovid useless.

Fortune

America's pandemic preparedness plan 'failed in the first week' of COVID, former White House advisor Deborah Birx says. As for the next pandemic: 'We're not ready'

The country is unprepared for the next pandemic—perhaps even less prepared than it was on the eve of COVID-19, Trump-era White House COVID response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx said Wednesday.

Fortune

Democrat Jamie Raskin hits back at Lauren Boebert with Trump quotes: ‘Pin it on your favourite President’

Maryland Democrat responds as Colorado Republican blasts pandemic-era mask and vaccine mandates

The Independent UK

Democrat Jamie Raskin hits back at Lauren Boebert with Trump quotes

Maryland Democrat responds as Colorado Republican blasts pandemic-era mask and vaccine mandates

The Independent UK

Trump and Kellyanne Conway banned Dr Fauci and Dr Birx from TV appearances on Covid, Jan 6 transcript shows

Mr Trump personally intervened to order the two physicians barred from making TV appearances

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Panel details pressure campaign for unproven COVID treatment

A special House panel looking into the government's coronavirus response says the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine that had been discredited as a COVID-19 treatment

Axios

COVID cases jump in Northeast, Pacific Northwest

COVID cases are rising in all but 4 states and D.C. as Omicron, and potentially more transmissible versions of it, sweep across the U.S.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Another day, another redemption book project from a former Trump official

The Trump administration’s abysmal handling of America’s worst public health crisis in a century was the result of a refusal to accept the reality of that crisis — a refusal that started at the top. That’s the judgment of Dr. Deborah Birx, Trump’s former Coronavirus Response Task Force coordinator. In…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trump’s ex-COVID-19 adviser, Pa. native Deborah Birx, says disinfectant episode was ‘a tragedy on many levels’

PHILADELPHIA — Deborah Birx — the Pennsylvania-born government doctor who rose to international prominence during the pandemic — is back in the news, this time promoting her account of her controversial stint as the first coronavirus response coordinator under former President Donald Trump.

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The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Truth Social: ‘The social media equivalent of a RadioShack’

Late-night hosts discuss Trump’s beleaguered social media app, his claim he won’t return to Twitter, and Melania Trump’s 52nd birthday

The Independent UK

Deborah Birx says she was ‘paralysed’ during Trump’s rant about injecting disinfectant

Birx faced criticism for not speaking out against Trump’s misinformation about Covid-19

The Guardian - US

Trump disinfectant claim ‘a tragedy on many levels’, ex-Covid adviser Birx says

White House pandemic coordinator says press conference was lamentable but does not regret taking position on Trump’s team

Reason

Against Scientific Gatekeeping

Science should be a profession, not a priesthood.

Tribune News Service

CDC retomará su papel como líder en datos de hospitales pandémicos

Los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC) planean recuperar su papel como principal organismo en la recopilación de datos hospitalarios acerca de las amenazas de enfermedades infecciosas, después de haber sido despojados de este trabajo a mediados de la pandemia debido a su lenta respuesta.

Tribune News Service

CDC moves to retake role as leader on pandemic hospital data

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention plans to take back its role as the main agency collecting hospital data on infectious disease threats, after being stripped of the job mid-pandemic because of its slow response.

The Independent UK

Dr. Deborah Birx, COVID adviser under Trump, has a book deal

Former White House health official Dr. Deborah Birx has a memoir coming out this spring

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