When administered within five days of symptoms appearing, the antiviral drug Paxlovid has been proven to bring a 90% reduction in hospitalizations and deaths among patients most likely to get severe COVID-19.

A $20 billion government COVID program that covered testing, treatment and vaccine costs for uninsured people has been shut down.

President Biden is providing 400 million N95 masks to Americans for free, along with one billion COVID-19 rapid tests.

The Biden administration has launched a task force to respond to future COVID-19 variants.

The initial batch of test kits will be available starting next week, President Joe Biden said, when the administration launches a new website where Americans can request the free tests.

A Department of Labor rule will require unvaccinated workers at large businesses to get tested regularly for the coronavirus.

The new administration is dismantling one of Donald Trump’s most consequential policies meant to deter asylum-seekers from coming to the United States.

The emails were revealed as part of a House investigation into the Trump administration’s failed coronavirus response.

On numerous occasions, Giuliani met with officials for hours at a time without wearing a mask.

Pop-up clinics provide fast virus tests, but many people can’t afford to pay for them.

‘It was complete chaos and no one seemed to know the answers,’ one female inmate told the American Independent Foundation.

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows did not wear a mask while he spoke to reporters.

The CDC now doesn’t recommend testing for those who have been in contact with infected patients, which could both show fewer cases but lead to more virus spread.

Also: Racism is recognized as a public health crisis in Michigan, and residents of Nevada will have an easier time voting in November.

In an email, White House aides were informed of a new testing policy.

‘Let’s expand access to rapid testing on Capitol Hill, but also throughout the country.’

The United States is not testing enough people for the coronavirus, and many who are tested must wait days for the results.

Donald Trump boasted at his campaign rally on Saturday that he told his staff to slow down coronavirus testing to reduce the number of positive results.

As cases increase in multiple states, the Trump administration is claiming things are at ‘the low-water mark.’

Letting states set their own diagnostic testing standards ‘creates enormous confusion,’ one health expert said.

‘Americans must put a president in the White House come January, 2021, who will understand that public health should not be guided by partisan politics,’ a Lancet editorial said.

Trump has called a coronavirus test from Abbott Laboratories ‘highly accurate’ despite a new study showing the opposite.

Sen. Mike Braun (R-IN) says ‘bureaucracy’ at the CDC is behind the Trump administration’s coronavirus testing failures.

The Utah Republican scolded Trump’s testing czar during a Senate hearing.

Trump appeared to declare victory even as the number of coronavirus cases rises nationwide.

Donald Trump previously claimed testing issues were a ‘local thing.’

In addition, on a more telling measure — the proportion of a country’s population that gets tested — the U.S. was not only late getting started but is still way behind.

The government had planned to send tests to 30 countries but later dropped the plan because the kits were flawed.

Arizona Sen. Martha McSally claimed the number of tests was increasing during a town hall meeting last week. Official counts say otherwise.

Lack of testing remains a huge problem in the United States.