President Joe Biden signed into law the $847 billion defense policy bill, which will give U.S. service members their largest raise in decades and end the Pentagon’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

Shanghai hospitals are struggling to cope with the numbers of infected patients, pharmacies are turning customers away empty-handed.

Most people who lose their sense of smell from a COVID infection recover within a few weeks. But an unlucky minority of the population — about 5% according to one study — experience smell and taste loss months or years after their initial infection.

The chief executive officer of the troubled New Jersey Veterans Memorial Home at Menlo Park is out of her job, in the wake of findings of major health and safety violations.

After giving almost unanimous support to U.S. booster shot guidance a year ago, health experts are now split over when people should get them and who will actually benefit.

It's becoming increasingly hard to get a handle on the scale of China's COVID onslaught, with the country last week halting reporting of asymptomatic cases, which typically made up the bulk of the infection tally.

Bucking expectations for a managed and gradual transition, China is now allowing the coronavirus to run rampant. As a result, Beijing's rapidly spreading COVID outbreak has turned the Chinese capital of 22 million people into a virtual ghost town.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky argues that in order to make her agency more effective, it needs expanded authorities and capabilities. But congressional Republicans say they want more oversight.

China has pivoted from its “zero covid” policy, which included centralized coronavirus testing, raising fears it is missing the scope of the new surge in cases.

More than 3,500 Americans have died of long COVID-related illness in the first 30 months of the pandemic, according to a death certificate analysis by the CDC.

The White House and the Pentagon have pointed out that each of the service members discharged had willfully disregarded a direct order. They contend that behavior can’t be tolerated in the armed forces.

The direction to supervisors is to use telework only to the extent that mission needs allow, Gen. Duke Z. Richardson said in an email accompanying a memo recently distributed across the command from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

Two-thirds of the House, 350-80, voted for the National Defense Authorization Act, an annual must-pass legislation that outlines priorities for the Pentagon and other agencies involved in defense.

The youngest Americans will have access to variant-targeting boosters already available to older children and adults.

The rollback comes despite opposition from President Biden and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who characterized the vaccine mandate as a way of protecting troops from Covid-19 and preventing sprawling outbreaks that sideline entire units, undermine the military’s readiness and endanger national security.

China moved definitively away from its long-held COVID zero approach Wednesday, easing a range of restrictions that it has persisted with way after the rest of the world moved on to living with the virus.

Lawmakers in Congress agreed to scrap the military’s coronavirus vaccine mandate in a compromise defense policy bill that also boosts pay for troops.

The final version of the fiscal 2023 defense authorization bill is likely to rescind Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s August 2021 memo ordering COVID-19 vaccines for most troops.

The U.S. won't agree to waive intellectual-property protections for COVID-19 treatments and tests this year — aligning with developed-nation peers and delaying prospects for a World Trade Organization accord aimed at boosting global access to life-saving medicines.