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An 18-year-old transgender, biological male passed away due to complications with a "neo-vagina" surgery during a Dutch study aiming to support child sex changes.

"The monovalent Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines are no longer authorized for use in the United States," the FDA says.

"The patient was a 56-year-old female from Guangdong province with an onset of illness on 22 February 2023," a WHO announcement reads.

New Zealand is to keep its COVID-19 mandates, including seven-day isolations and mask mandates in specific settings, for at least two more months.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas refused to call the ongoing influx at the southern border a "crisis," saying that admitting the situation was a crisis would indicate a "withdrawal from our mission."

President Biden recognized Transgender Day of Visibility on Friday, saying transgender people were "made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support."

Three people have died and four people have had eyeballs removed after using eyedrops linked to a drug-resistant bacterial disease.

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

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."