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California won't allow teens age 15 and up to be vaccinated against the coronavirus without their parents' consent.

A bill to allow minors to consent to vaccines without parental permission will not move forward this year after the bill did not receive enough support to pass.

U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling nearly a year from 2020, according to a new government report.

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The U.S. Secret Service said Friday that it has recovered $286 million in fraudulently obtained pandemic loans and is returning the money to the Small Business Administration.

COVID-19 vaccine maker and pharma giant Moderna is suing its main competitors Pfizer and the German drugmaker BioNTech.

A special House panel looking into the government’s coronavirus response says the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing the drug hydroxychloroquine, that has been discredited as a COVID-19 treatment.

Pfizer said its COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, according to the Associated Press.

Dr. Antony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, is leaving the federal government in December, as reported by the Associated Press.

A bill moving through the California legislature would require school districts to come up with COVID-19 testing plans in case of positive cases in the classroom.