Joe Biden

Among his new steps to fight COVID surges this winter: requiring private health insurers to reimburse people for at-home tests. It also calls for more people to get vaccines and boosters.

President Biden said that while restrictions imposed on travelers from several nations in southern Africa would slow the variant's entry, the U.S. will eventually see cases.

Medicare experts say inflation was not to blame and most beneficiaries will shoulder a much smaller increase than what the former Florida governor claims.

Focusing on mandates pursued by the White House, Gov. Ron DeSantis touted the “strongest piece of legislation that's been enacted anywhere in the country” and said Florida is “respecting people’s individual freedoms.”

Florida lawmakers are returning to Tallahassee to take up a slate of bills that would push back against the federal government’s vaccine mandates and limit local government authority to require COVID-19 immunizations.

In a letter to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, attorneys for the Biden administration say the rule is expected to save thousands of lives.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had granted an emergency stay of the requirement by OSHA companies with at least 100 employees require COVID vaccines by Jan. 4.

The Food and Drug Administration has been without a permanent leader since President Biden took office in January. Califf led the agency during the last year of the Obama administration.

A series of bills were released as Gov. Ron DeSantis reiterated what he sees as the need for the session, which will start Monday.

The latest iteration of President Joe Biden’s social-spending package would close the health insurance gap for at least 2.2 million people, including more than 400,000 in Florida, where political opposition has blocked Medicaid expansion.