COVID-19

The company issued a nationwide recall of the Skippack Medical Lab rapid test kits.

Researchers say the pandemic likely played a major role in the last few years for people deciding whether to have a baby.

The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies’ normal authorities.

After looking at federal data, researchers concluded about one of every 100,000 children died from COVID-19 between August 2021 and July 2022.

The organization declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency of international concern in January 2020, about six weeks before characterizing it as a pandemic.

The FDA’s plan is to call its advisory panel for another meeting in late May or early June to decide if the vaccine recipe needs tweaking — including which virus strain to target.

The advisory committee will also look at how well the current booster shots are working.

The FDA said the plan is to create a single annual shot to bolster immunity for most people.

Researchers found dangers for babies, too.

The preliminary data shows more than 267,000 people died of COVID-19 last year.