Data on COVID treatment utilization, shared with NPR by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, indicates that millions of COVID treatments are sitting on shelves unused.
President Biden named Dr. Ashish Jha, a well-known public health expert who is the dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, as his new White House COVID-19 response coordinator.
As America casts a wary eye on rising cases caused by the BA.2 subvariant in Europe, the immune status of adults over the age of 65 will be a key indicator of how future variants will affect the US because the risk of severe outcomes rises dramatically with age.
Two Israeli travelers returning home from abroad were found carrying a combination of the Omicron variant and the BA.2 "stealth" Omicron variant—a mutation COVID that the country's health ministry said is "not yet known to the world."