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For the record, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, would take the job again. “I’m a clinician, a physician at heart,” she said Friday. “And …
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When is a pandemic “over?” Did biotech over-SPAC? And what can’t be CRISPR’d? We cover all that and more this week on “The Readout LOUD,” STAT’s biotech podcast. Heidi Tworek, …
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Is the Covid-19 pandemic over? President Biden told Scott Pelley of “60 Minutes” it was. The Sunday night interview aired just days after the director-general of the World Health Organization, …
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Former NIH director and current White House science adviser Francis Collins told a group of journalists late last week about his passion for both the Cancer Moonshot and the new …
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Covid-19 demonstrated how quickly the United States can mobilize to produce and distribute new tests, vaccines, and treatments for a previously unknown virus. The pandemic also highlighted significant inequalities and …
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The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program has reached new heights of complexity with the start of the bivalent booster program, leading to concerns about the potential for more errors …
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Even before the new Covid booster shots arrived, the arguments about them got shrill. There’s a dizzying kaleidoscope of defensible opinions about the new Covid shots, which are designed to …
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“I really believe this is why God gave us two arms — one for the flu shot and the other one for the Covid shot.” — Ashish Jha, White House …
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You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and policy of health and medicine. Sign up here to receive it in your inbox. Republicans pan White …
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