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New York City restaurant owner Thomas Makkos said that business has dropped by about 70% over the past two weeks due to worries related to the omicron strain.

The vaccine mandate New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced for private employers earlier this month is not in effect in the city, with $1,000 fines looming for employers with unvaccinated workers.

United Airlines has been forced to cancel 170 flights on Christmas Eve, in part, due to the omicron variant.

The Food and Drug Administration has now granted emergency use authorizations for two oral antiviral treatment drugs against COVID-19, Pfizer's Paxlovid and Merck's molnupiravir.

Britain will not be introducing new COVID-19 restrictions until after Christmas, amid early studies about the omicron variant.

Universal Orlando is reinstating its mask requirements beginning Christmas Eve as COVID-19 cases are surging due to the omicron variant.

A recent rise in Covid-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant is prompting more vaccinated Americans to consider getting booster shots, but it doesn’t appear to be persuading large numbers of the unvaccinated, survey data shows.

Many restaurants are anxious about what is ahead amid the COVID-19 omicron outbreak.

Elizabeth Holmes had his final opportunity Friday to distance the Theranos Inc. founder from the criminal-fraud allegations she faces

The CDC now recommends that Americans take the mRNA vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna instead of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine due to rare but serious blood clots.

JPMorgan Chase JPM -0.87% & Co. is moving its big annual healthcare conference in San Francisco to a virtual setting, telling participants the spreading Omicron variant of Covid-19 had made the in-person gathering too risky.

Pfizer is spending $6.7 billion to buy a drugmaker that is developing treatments for inflammatory conditions like Crohn’s disease but has no products on the market.

A Canadian drugmaker said its plant-based COVID-19 vaccine showed strong protection against the virus and will soon seek authorization at home and elsewhere.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said his new vaccine mandate for all private businesses is necessary to "avert shutdowns."

Pfizer has prepared the first shipments of its COVID-19 antiviral pill PAXLOVID and sent them to the airport for distribution across Europe and America once it receives approval.

Omicron variant could lead to more infections among vaccinated people but they will most likely remain protected from severe illness, according to the inventor of one of the first COVID-19 vaccines.

Stéphane Bancel, the CEO of Moderna, said in an interview published Tuesday that current vaccines for COVID-19 will likely be much less effective against the new omicron variant.

Some hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare providers are preparing to operate without up to a third of their staff at the start of next year, if those workers don’t comply with a federal mandate to get vaccinated against Covid-19.

Jurors heard testimony this week from voices that have been scant in Elizabeth Holmes’s criminal-fraud trial so far: patients who took Theranos Inc. tests, as well as Holmes herself.

A New Jersey Starbucks employee tested positive for hepatitis A this week