Key takeaways: $1 billion was spent on the program over the last 4 years. HHS is in the process of purchasing a supply of tests that can distinguish between COVID-19 and influenza to have on hand ...

Coronavirus HHS ends Biden-era COVID-19 testing program that bled taxpayers years after pandemic The government had spent more than $1 billion on the program since it was established in 2021 ...

HHS’s new initiative also aims to develop universal coronavirus vaccines that could provide protection against not just the virus that causes Covid-19 – SARS-CoV-2 – but its cousins SARS-CoV ...

The HHS said the funds, totaling $11.4 billion, were primarily used for COVID-19 response, including testing, vaccination and hiring community health workers.

Beginning on March 24, Health and Human Services terminated billions in COVID-19-era public health funds, with notices arriving in grant portals and e-mail inboxes, according to the complaint.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. publicly announced May 27 that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccination for healthy pregnant women or ...

The funds were largely used for COVID-19 testing, vaccination, and other responses to the pandemic, HHS said. Termination notices began on Monday, it said in a statement.