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In the latest Senate package targeted at stopping the coronavirus, U.S. lawmakers dropped nearly all funding for curbing the virus beyond American borders, a move many health experts slammed as dangerously short-sighted.

New COVID-19 cases, as well as deaths and hospitalizations, continue to decline in the United States. Experts say this trend could stifle a resurgence of COVID-19 cases this summer.

More than a dozen guests who attended Saturday night’s Gridiron Club dinner — including two Cabinet members, two members of Congress and a top aide to Vice President Harris — have since tested positive for coronavirus, sending ripples of anxiety through a city on the cusp of restarting its traditional social whirl after a two-year pause.
 

The Omicron subvariant caused as many as 3 in 4 cases of Covid-19 in the United States last week, according to the latest genomic surveillance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but so far, there are no signs of a looming surge in the US.
 

As the world impatiently looks for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, another tenacious pandemic, tuberculosis, has gained new strength and threatens millions of people around the world, health experts say.
 

A pandemic like COVID-19 isn’t just a force of nature, nor is it a random event; human activity is increasing the chances of new diseases emerging. That fact presents a route toward countering a new outbreak before it begins, but it requires ramping up a two-pronged approach.
 

Anyone who becomes infected with COVID-19 can experience a wide range of post-COVID conditions, including symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, or even changes in menstrual cycles.1 However, the health problems that sometimes appear after infection can manifest in many different ways and levels of severity, which makes long COVID difficult to define.
Bryan Lau and Priya Duggal are quoted. 
 

Josh Sharfstein talks about the “Public Health on Call” podcast and latest developments in the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

Adults 50 and older can now roll up their sleeves for a second COVID-19 booster, as can younger individuals with certain immune-compromising conditions.
 

The Omicron coronavirus variant may be reaching around the world, but different places are seeing significantly different effects.
 

Early trial data suggested the J&J vaccine wasn't as protective as the mRNA shots, but officials said it was just as good as the others because it only required a single dose.
 

After one of the most turbulent periods in air travel history — loaded with new rules and regulations and plenty of unruly and disruptive passengers — airlines want to jettison COVID-era safety precautions for flights.