WASHINGTON – President Biden said he would likely have to break his deadlocked health, education and climate agenda to get his policy through Congress, predicting that Russia would take a step toward Ukraine and warn that Moscow would stay punished for sanctions for doing so. … Read More

CHICAGO – At Rush University Medical Center, nurses are still talking about their guilt from the first months of treating Covid-19 patients. How they had not known how to best treat desperate patients. How worried they were about bringing Covid-19 home to their families. Except … Read More

Citigroup Inc. C -1.25% agrees with his Vaccine against covid-19 mandate to its American workers. General Electric Co. GIVE 0.68% is not. The two American companies are going in different directions The Supreme Court blocked Thursday The Biden administration’s rule that large employers require their … Read More

Omicron pushes Covid-19 pediatric hospital admissions to record levels in the United States and the United Kingdom. Doctors say the variability of the variant – and not an increased severity – is probably most responsible. Throughout the pandemic, children have been much less likely than … Read More

While Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers are preparing Omicron-specific shots, federal health officials say there are signs they may not be needed. Research continues, however, and industry and global health officials say doses are targeted the highly transferable new variant may be necessary in the long run, … Read More

LONDON – The UK seems to have passed the peak of the latest wave of Covid-19 caused by Omicron, a promising sign that the impact of the highly transferable variant may be short, albeit intense, and foster optimism about, that the pandemic may subside. Researchers … Read More

LONDON – The UK seems to have passed the peak of the latest wave of Covid-19 caused by Omicron, a promising sign that the impact of the highly transferable variant may be short, albeit intense, and foster optimism about, that the pandemic may subside. Researchers … Read More

By Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson Jan. 11, 2022 18:25 ET Photo: Gerry Broome / Associated Press ‘Follow science’, we keep hearing, but sometimes scientists and the media present results in a misleading way. Consider a new study from Duke University’s ABC Science Collaborative, conducted … Read More

By Jay Bhattacharya and Tom Nicholson Jan. 11, 2022 18:25 ET Photo: Gerry Broome / Associated Press ‘Follow science’, we keep hearing, but sometimes scientists and the media present results in a misleading way. Consider a new study from Duke University’s ABC Science Collaborative, conducted … Read More

White House officials are expected on Wednesday to outline steps the administration has taken to try to speed up access to and access to Covid-19 treatments, such as antiviral drugs, which have been in short supply amid a wave of cases of the Omicron variant. … Read More