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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Feb. 25 it is no longer requiring students and others on school buses to wear masks, but is keeping the mask mandate for all other forms of public transportation in place.

Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson on Friday agreed to a $26 billion settlement to thousands of claims by local and state governments of the alleged role that it and several others played in the U.S. opioid crisis.

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), an independent group of experts who advise the UK’s government health departments on immunizations published a report on 16 February stating, ‘JCVI advises a non-urgent offer at two 10mcg doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11 years of age who are not in a clinical risk group.’

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published new data that shows COVID cases and hospitalization rates have jumped among the vaccinated.

"As many people as possible need to be infected with the virus as the vaccines are not enough," said Iceland's Ministry of Health.

A rising number of specialists are pressing the US government to acknowledge natural immunity, the protection that comes with recovering from COVID-19.

Boy's mom described how blisters began appearing on her son's body within 8 days of his first dose on Dec. 4, and how doctors initially misdiagnosed his condition.

In a letter to the House Speaker and Senate President Friday, President Joe Biden extended the national COVID-19 emergency pandemic indefinitely.

Tech entrepreneur Bill Gates said recently he found it unfortunate that the Omicron strain of COVID-19 created better immunity than man-made vaccines.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has lowered its standards of childhood speech development, a decision that has many people worried about the way milestones are measured in kids.