Only uniformed service members and young children receiving pediatric doses may get the COVID-19 vaccine at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center until further notice, the 88th Medical Group said Wednesday.

Though the 23 separations were involuntary, all the sailors had more than six months in the Navy and received honorable characterizations of service.

The Biden administration's mandate that began Jan. 15 calls for those with private health insurance to get a monthly allotment of free tests. Yet health experts say the ambitious federal plan to quickly extend home testing will be challenging because of the nation's fragmented health care system.

Omicron has proven the most transmissible of any COVID-19 variant so far, but it hasn’t changed the dynamics surrounding the politics of the pandemic in the states.

Repeated COVID-19 testing of millions of Beijing residents is starting to test the patience of some as the city clamps down on the virus ahead of the coming Winter Olympics.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson braced Wednesday for the conclusions of an investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties, a document that could help him end weeks of scandal and discontent, or bring his time in office to an abrupt close.

Hospitalizations in Tokyo have steadily increased, a major cause for concern by public health officials.

The Chinese capital reported 14 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday as it began a third round of mass testing of millions of people in the run-up to the Winter Olympics.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., apologized Tuesday for suggesting things are worse for people today than they were for Anne Frank, the teenager who hid in a secret annex in an Amsterdam house for two years, before being killed in a Nazi concentration camp.

As for why an estimated 86 million Americans who have been fully vaccinated and are eligible for a booster have not yet gotten one, one vaccine policy experts says public confusion is one important reason.