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Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul grilled Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over whether the shot is safe for teen boys, citing an increased risk of myocarditis.

U.S. officials are reporting two more deaths and additional cases of vision loss linked to eyedrops tainted with a drug-resistant bacteria.

Congressional Republicans are busy trying to uncover the origin of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1.1 million Americans.

Billionaire Bill Gates has urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to set up a Global Health Emergency Corps to tackle transnational health threats, in order to prevent another pandemic like COVID-19.

"We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19's origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics," Biden said in the statement. "I directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that work is ongoing."

Confidential documents from Pfizer reveal that the company was aware of potential risks of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccinations in early 2022.

An outbreak of vaccine-induced polio has been declared by Burundian health officials, marking the first time the paralyzing disease has been detected in the East African nation in more than three decades.

The meta-analysis claims, "The level of protection against re-infection, symptomatic disease, and severe disease appears to be at least as durable, if not more so, than that provided by two-dose vaccination with the mRNA vaccines."

The CDC paid one firm $420,000 and another $208,000 for access to data from at least 55 million cellphone users.

After a gunman killed three students last month at Michigan State University, the campus was quickly awash in cries for more gun control.