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Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, a single-shot alternative to other pharmaceutical companies’ two-dose series, is “no longer available” in the United States, health officials said. The last of the government’s J&J vaccine stock expired May 7, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Dispose of any remaining Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations,” the CDC says on its website. About 19 million Americans received the J&J vaccine, according to CDC statistics. That’s far less than the nearly 367 million Americans who received Pfi......

WASHINGTON — When the pandemic-era immigration rule known as Title 42 comes to an end Thursday night, a new regulation will make it harder for migrants who show up at the U.S.-Mexico border to seek political asylum in the United States, the Biden administration said Wednesday. Asylum seekers showing up at the border without prior authorization will have to show proof they requested asylum in any of the countries they traveled through on their way to the border, and that the request was denied. The controversial rule, which immigration advocates say mirrors a similar travel ban by the Trump adm......

President Joe Biden on Monday signed a bill to declassify intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19. Congress approved the legislation unanimously. Sen. Josh Hawley, a Missouri Republican, introduced the bill March 1 after the Department of Energy said with “low confidence” it believed the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China. How the pandemic began has led to competing theories. Some scientists have advanced the idea that the virus emerged as an accidental lab leak, while others say the evidence available favors the idea that an animal first infected a human. A team of virus e......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — San Francisco Bay Area cities and counties set big goals to combat homelessness in 2022, as public outrage over the crisis intensified and officials took advantage of extra state and federal resources doled out in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Did they hit their mark? Not on every front. But even so, officials say they’ve made significant progress as we head into the new year. San Mateo County set perhaps the most ambitious goal, setting its sights on essentially ending street homelessness in 2022 by making sure everyone who wanted to come inside had access to a sh......

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Burr Ridge, Illinois, businessman to nearly five years in federal prison for swindling $2.6 million from hospitals seeking coveted protective gear in the traumatic early days of the COVID-19 pandemic and blowing much of it on credit cards and luxury cars. The 57-month term handed to Dennis Haggerty marked the stiffest punishment so far in Chicago’s federal court in a fraud case arising from the pandemic. U.S. District Judge John Kness said he found Haggerty’s behavior, which included the creation of phony billing records and repeated attempts to try to pin......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Flu-like illnesses like COVID-19, RSV, the flu and other viruses are on the rise in Kansas City and beyond. This week’s data shows COVID-19 cases continuing to increase in all five counties and two cities that make up the metro area. Data reported on Tuesday shows that there have been 1,643 new cases reported in the metro in the past week. That’s higher than the 1,309 cases reported the previous week and 997 the week prior. Local experts have warned of an increase in viral illness around the metro as flu season coincides with an RSV outbreak and colder weather causes more re......