by Jordana Choucair | Jan 10, 2022 | D.C. News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested that more federal pandemic relief could be included in a government funding package. According to Pelosi, the “opportunity” and “challenge” are there but that the White House has not formally asked for more...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 10, 2022 | D.C. News
Federal government agencies are preparing to take increasingly harsh steps against unvaccinated employees in order to implement President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal workers. Some agencies – including Treasury, Transportation, and Agriculture – plan...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 7, 2022 | D.C. News
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this morning over two of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate policies. The first is OSHA’s emergency vaccinate-or-test rule covering an estimated 80 million employees at large companies. The second is a...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 7, 2022 | D.C. News
Several former health advisers to President Biden published separate op-eds urging the administration to reconsider its COVID-19 pandemic strategy. According to the authors, the COVID-19 pandemic will persist for some time. They outlined several strategies to active a...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 7, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new analysis from the Urban Institute found that parents in low-income households (at or below 138 percent of federal poverty level) face greater challenges in addressing health needs than other parents. Parents in low-income households were more than nine times as...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 7, 2022 | Life Sciences
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said that people will likely need a second COVID-19 booster dose in the fall. During a health care conference hosted by Goldman Sachs, Bancel said that people who received booster shots this past fall are likely to have significant...
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