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Senate Democrats struck a deal to lower the income eligibility limit for direct COVID-19 stimulus checks to Americans. Under the Senate bill, which could be unveiled this week, the checks would stop at an income threshold of $80,000 for individuals and $160,000 for couples; the House bill's threshold was $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 for couples. The Senate bill is expected to keep the

Several European countries temporarily suspended use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after at least 37 reports of people who received it experiencing life-threatening blood clots. The European Medicines Agency said Thursday that it had found “no indication” so far that the vaccine caused the clots, and AstraZeneca said there had been 37 reports of blood clotting out of 17 million

A panel of experts advising the CDC voted Friday to recommend resuming distribution of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot coronavirus vaccine, so long as the vaccine’s Emergency Use Authorization included a warning about “rare but clinically serious” blood clots. The vote comes 10 days after the CDC and FDA paused distribution “out of an abundance of caution” following 6 reports of severe

President Joe Biden said Monday he might raise the 100-day goal of administering 100 million COVID-19 vaccination shots to 150 million. As of Jan. 25, at least 18.5 million people have received one or both doses of the vaccine in the U.S., according to data from the Washington Post. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated more than 40 million vaccines have been