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Five more California counties will move to less restrictive tiers because of improving COVID-19 conditions and no counties regressed, the state Department of Public Health said Tuesday.

The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday it will offer a third shot to recipients of the Chinese state-backed Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine six months after their initial two-dose regimen.

Americans should start getting screened for colon cancer earlier -- at age 45 instead of waiting until they’re 50, according to guidelines released Tuesday.

Dr. Anthony Fauci said the newly updated Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidance for fully vaccinated people has helped him feel more comfortable not wearing a mask while indoors, and that prior to it he “didn’t want to look like I was giving mixed signals.”

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a briefing Tuesday defended the agency’s updated approach to monitoring breakthrough coronavirus infections, or COVID-19 occurring after a person is fully vaccinated.

With the first drawing for Ohio’s Vax-a-Million lottery system scheduled for May 26, state officials announced a change to the process Monday that will require participants to opt-in.

The White House’s senior COVID advisor Andy Slavitt made a personal pitch to young people to get vaccinated during a briefing on Tuesday, revealing that his own son has been dealing with symptoms of long-COVID since contracting the virus six months ago.

The European Union’s drug regulator on Monday backed more flexible storage for Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, allowing for unopened thawed vaccine doses to be stored in a normal refrigerator for up to one month.

Roche’s SARS-CoV-2 test for people not experiencing symptoms received an emergency use authorization from the U.S. FDA, the company announced Tuesday, upholding federal guidance to expand diagnostic tools to tamp down asymptomatic spread.

The World Health Organization's director-general warned on Monday that the coronavirus pandemic “is a long way far from over” as he appealed for more funding for the agency’s response plan.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) updated guidance for fully vaccinated people says that they no longer need to wear masks while outdoors or indoors, except for in certain circumstances, which has caused some confusion about when to bring one along.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is losing another top official as Dr. Anne Schuchat, the agency’s deputy director, announced her retirement on Monday, Fox News confirmed.

Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary called out the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under Biden appointee Rochelle Walensky as "the most political CDC in history," after recent guidance has led critics to question whether the agency was following science or political pressure in their recommendations.

A study in the United Kingdom led by the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Public Health England reported that waiting months between doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine produces much stronger protection against COVID-19.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated mask guidance “should not send the message that the pandemic is over,” a group of infectious disease experts said Monday.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a recall of nearly 62,000 pacemakers that were distributed between April 2015 and February 2019 after it was discovered that moisture could get inside the device causing an electrical short.

With over 24 million confirmed cases and 270,000 deaths, India’s caseload is the second highest after the U.S. But experts believe that the country’s steeply rising curve may finally be flattening — even if the plateau is a high one, with an average of 340,000 confirmed daily cases last week. On Monday, infections continued to decline as cases dipped below 300,000 for the first time in weeks.

Children are having their noses swabbed or saliva sampled at school to test for the coronavirus in cities such as Baltimore, New York and Chicago. In other parts of the U.S., school districts are reluctant to check even students showing signs of illness for COVID-19.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said Sunday the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. “shone a bright light on our own society's failings” in how the virus impacted minority communities.

The country’s largest nurses’ union is blasting the CDC over its latest recommended easing of mask restrictions – claiming the move “threatens the lives of patients, nurses and other front-line workers.”