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Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA

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How the Covid pandemic ends: Scientists look to the past to see the future

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A solution to the murky legal status of vaccine mandates: rewrite vaccine EUAs

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More than 200 people in U.S. being monitored for possible monkeypox exposure, CDC says

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States are sitting on millions of surplus Covid-19 vaccine doses as expiration dates approach

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Catching Covid-19 after being vaccinated isn’t a myth. It happened to me

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The first challenge for ARPA-H should be electronic health record migration

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On compounding, the FDA marches to the beat of its own biases

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The Pharmalot View

Biden wants to bolster the pharma supply chain. A major generic plant closing may make that harder

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