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The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the mandate earlier this month, stating that OSHA had overstepped its authority.
As Omicron continues to dominate globally, research is coming in every day on this highly contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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It’s a landmark no one expected or wanted — more than 70 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. with 866,000 deaths. For that and more COVID-19 news, continue reading.
Dr. Anthony Fauci expects the FDA will authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children under the age of five in the next month.
A study conducted by 23andMe and published in Nature Genetics identified a genetic risk factor tied to the loss of smell from COVID-19.
Moderna is poised to commercialize its COVID-19 and influenza combination vaccine by the fall of 2023, with some potential for the same drug to also be viable against the RSV.
Studies are ongoing in Israel on whether a fourth dose of an mRNA vaccine offers additional protection. Although the data is still early, it suggests that it might not.
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Researchers from the Medical University of Bialystok in Poland identified a gene that appears to double the risk of severe COVID-19.
One of the big stories this week that even momentarily eclipsed COVID-19, was the landmark transplant of a genetically modified pig heart into a human male with terminal heart disease. For that and more research stories, read on.
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