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Britain’s former prime minister is facing a two-day going-over by the country’s official pandemic probe. POLITICO is tracking the key moments.

An emerging variant of COVID-19 called BA.2.86 that caused alarm earlier this summer has landed on the CDCs radar again.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday cleared an over-the-counter at-home COVID-19 antigen test made by Acon Laboratories.

Among Canadians, patients aged 80 years or older are the least likely to have a history of COVID-19 infection and the most likely to be hospitalized or die following infection, data indicate.

Roughly half of children are noninfectious 3 days after a positive COVID-19 test, independent of vaccination status.

Professor Shinji Takagi is Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University.

Rapid antigen tests were dubbed the heroes of the pandemic." Now, experts said, its time to expand their role for other diseases — and maybe the next pandemic.

Only a third of countries reported data to the ECDC on hospital admissions.

WebMD turned to the experts for their take on the current circulating virus, asking them to predict if well be masking up again anytime soon, and what this fall and winter might look like.

Primary care clinicians were sidelined in vaccine distribution during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But now these providers are looking toward resuming their role as a major provider of the shots.