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 ...

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 ...

HHS says the elimination of 22 mRNA vaccine development projects for COVID-19 and bird flu signals a shift in vaccine ...

A biotech that lost federal funding Tuesday following Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s edict that his agency’s pandemic preparedness division stop funding development of messenger RNA-based ...

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

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 ...

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 ...