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Youngstown City Health Department worker Faith Terreri grabs two at-home COVID-19 test kits to be handed out during a distribution event, Dec. 30, 2021, in Youngstown, Ohio. Nearly half the 500 million free COVID-19 tests the Biden administration recently made available to Americans still have not been claimed as virus cases plummet and people feel less urgency to test.

White House: 40% of free COVID tests distributed to low-income areas

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

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Medicare ordered to reassess premium hike for Alzheimer’s drug

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

This Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, photo shows a Social Security card in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

Millions of Social Security recipients will get a 5.9% boost in benefits next year

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Christopher Rugaber, and others

President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 response and vaccinations in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, Sept. 24, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden’s $3.5 trillion package is ‘too big to fail’ but also ‘too big to describe’

By Jonathan Lemire, Zeke Miller, and others

FILE – In this April 26, 2021, file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. Data from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is being misrepresented to raise doubts about the shots. Over the years, anti-vaccine proponents have seized on the publicly available data to sow doubt about vaccines from falsehoods that they cause autism to even death. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Medicare debuts new online tool allowing users to access nursing home vaccine data

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

Ventilator monitor ,given oxygen by intubation tube to patient, setting in ICU/Emergency room

Biden administration wants hospitals to cut carbon emissions

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

The home page for the government web page of healthcare.gov is displayed on a computer screen on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021, in Washington. With the Obama health care law undergoing a revival under President Joe Biden, this Sunday is the deadline for consumers to take advantage of a special sign-up period for private coverage made more affordable by his COVID relief law. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden COVID law that provided cheaper health insurance is ending August 15

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

A Graves Drug pharmacist administers a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a worker at the Creekstone Farms Premium Beef LLC processing plant in Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S., on Friday, March 5, 2021. Independent pharmacy owners in the U.S. are often the sole providers of the Covid vaccine in rural or exurban communities. But a majority of independent owners are still waiting for supply. Photographer: Doug Barrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The U.S. COVID surge may be convincing some vaccine-hesitant Americans to get the shot

By Heather Hollingsworth, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, and others

FILE – In this April 26, 2021, file photo, a nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas. Data from the U.S. Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System is being misrepresented to raise doubts about the shots. Over the years, anti-vaccine proponents have seized on the publicly available data to sow doubt about vaccines from falsehoods that they cause autism to even death. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

CDC launches investigation into deaths of immunized patients in nursing homes

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

REDONDO BEACH, CA – MARCH 08: Karen Klink, of Hermosa Beach, visits her 86-year-old mother Cynthia Tachner at Silverado Beach Cities Memory Care in Redondo Beach on Monday, March 8, 2021. Klink is hopeful she will soon be able to have in-room visits with her mother after California’s Department of Public Health issued new COVID-19 guidance on visitation for long-term care facilities. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Hugs allowed—Vaccinated U.S. nursing home residents get the OK from health officials

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, to announce key administration posts.

Biden announces $1.9 trillion relief plan to curb COVID-19 and boost U.S. economy

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Bill Barrow, and others

In this photo taken Friday, June 26, 2015, the White House commemorates the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to legalize same-sex marriage. On Friday, June 12, 2020, the Trump administration finalized a regulation that overturns Obama-era protections for transgender people against sex discrimination in health care.

Transgender health care protections overturned by Trump administration

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

A federal report due out April 6 finds that three out of four U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

With worst to come, 3 in 4 U.S. hospitals are already treating COVID-19 cases

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and The Associated Press

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. Trump warned Americans that it's "going to be a painful two weeks" and the virus was the worst thing the country had ever seen as the disease continued to spread around the country. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/Polaris/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Trump warns Americans to brace for a ‘hell of a bad 2 weeks’ as models show up to 240,000 coronavirus deaths

By Aamer Madhani, Kevin Freking, and others

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House.

White House turns to statistical models for coronavirus forecast

By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Lauran Neergaard, and others

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