The Biden administration will be ending the COVID-19 public health emergency and national emergency declarations within several months, with a range of impacts on Americans and their pocketbooks. Under the dual emergency declarations, most Americans have had access to free COVID-19 tests, treatments, and vaccines—even if they’re uninsured. But that’s about to change. Amid Republican…

JERUSALEM—Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent tests after feeling ill during prayers on the Jewish Day of Atonement, his office said in a statement on Wednesday. “Former Prime Minister Netanyahu felt unwell while praying at synagogue. He underwent a series of tests on site that came out normal and he now feels well,” the…

WASHINGTON—The United States successfully tested two Lockheed Martin Corp. hypersonic missiles recently, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, amid growing concerns Russia and China have had more success developing their own hypersonic weapons. The U.S. Air Force confirmed it successfully tested its Air-Launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) booster on Tuesday off the California coast. Reuters reported…

CHICAGO—U.S. health officials are working to expand capabilities to test for monkeypox beyond a narrow group of public health labs, heeding calls from infectious disease experts who say testing for the virus needs to become part of routine care. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a conference call…

About half of the 500 million free COVID-19 tests that President Joe Biden recently made available have not been claimed, according to the White House. Biden administration officials told The Associated Press that Americans have placed 68 million orders for packages of tests, which contain four COVID-19 tests each. That leaves about 68 percent of the…

SEOUL, South Korea—Accusing the United States of hostility and threats, North Korea on Thursday said it will consider restarting “all temporally-suspended activities” it had paused during its diplomacy with the Trump administration, in an apparent threat to resume testing of nuclear explosives and long-range missiles. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said leader Kim…

COVID-19 vaccines and testing boosted Walgreens store sales growth to levels not seen in more than two decades, pushing the drugstore chain well above Wall Street expectations for the first quarter. Walgreens doled out 15.6 million vaccines in the quarter that ended November 30, up 16 percent from the previous quarter, as more Americans sought…

Walmart Inc. said on Tuesday demand for at-home COVID-19 testing kits was “extremely high” and that it had set a limit of eight test kits per online order.

CVS Health Corp. on Wednesday lifted its full-year adjusted earnings forecast after robust demand for COVID-19 vaccinations and tests helped the U.S. healthcare conglomerate beat analysts’ estimates for third-quarter profit. Rival Walgreens Boots Alliance also signaled a boost from higher demand for vaccinations following the spread of the Delta variant. CVS said it had administered…

Wales has joined England and Scotland in demanding inbound travelers test negative for the CCP virus before boarding their trains, planes, and boats. “These new measures will help ensure we prevent new strains of the virus developing internationally from being imported into Wales,” Health Minister Vaughan Gething said in a statement on Jan. 15. “We…