Tuesday, January 25, 2022: D.C. News

The Biden administration says it will not be enforcing the federal employee vaccine mandate amid ongoing litigation. The move comes after a Texas federal judge on Friday blocked the enforcement of the vaccine mandate for government employees. The judge called the...

Monday, January 22, 2022: Payers

A U.S. judge in Texas on Friday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing an executive order requiring federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Citing the Supreme Court opinion blocking the administration’s vaccine-or-testing mandate for private...

Monday, January 22, 2022: Life Sciences

The FDA is weighing whether to limit the authorization of monoclonal antibody treatments from Eli Lilly & Co. and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., which haven’t proved effective against the Omicron variant. According to a person familiar with the process,...

Monday, January 22, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer Inc. CEO Albert Bourla said the drugmaker hopes to offer an annual COVID-19 vaccine because it “will not be a good scenario” if people have to get more frequent booster shots. He said Pfizer aims to develop a vaccine that “covers omicron and...