Final bill includes $400 billion in one-time payments of $1,400 to many Americans, with a phase-out starting for those with annual incomes above $75,000. It also includes $300 a week in extended jobless benefits for the 9.5 million people thrown out of work in the crisis

The FDA said J&J's vaccine offers strong protection against what matters most: serious illness, hospitalisations, and death

A year into the pandemic, the running total of lives lost was about 498,000 roughly the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and just shy of the size of Atlanta

Legitimate questions about the virus created perfect conditions for conspiracy theories. In the absence of knowledge, guesswork and propaganda flourished

Vaccines are not yet approved for children, but testing already is underway for those as young as 12

Experts believe that the real numbers of US deaths and infections are much higher and that many cases were overlooked, in part because of insufficient testing

The International Monetary Fund estimates the global economy to have shrunk by 4.4% this year compared with a contraction of just 0.1% in 2009, when the world last faced a financial crisis

Fauci's remarks came during an online discussion of the pandemic with California Governor Gavin Newsom, who announced at the outset that a highly infectious coronavirus variant originally found in Britain has been detected in his state

Dr Anthony Fauci endorsed the decision of US officials to require negative COVID-19 tests before letting people from Britain enter the US

Tedros during a Friday briefing said that he will be \"happy to\" show himself getting the COVID-19 vaccine in public whenever it is available to him

Since January, Fauci has served on President Donald Trump's White House Coronavirus Task Force, a position that has frequently put him at odds with the president, who has sought to downplay the pandemic

Zuckerberg acknowledged criticism of Facebook by President-elect Joe Biden but said the company shared some of the Biden team's same concerns about social media

Moderna said the information is being prepared for submission to the trial's independent data safety monitoring board, which will look at the results and make a recommendation

Scientists, public health officials and investors welcomed the first successful interim data from a large-scale clinical test as a watershed moment that could help turn the tide of the pandemic if the full trial results pan out

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) to Eli Lilly & Co's bamlanivimab based on trial data

The warning from Dr Anthony Fauci came as President Donald Trump, himself a COVID-19 survivor, has been downplaying the rising cases in a number of states and dangerously holding huge rallies with few of his supporters wearing masks and no social distancing

Donald Trump, who was admitted at Walter Reed National Military Medical centre on Friday, had received \"a single 8-gram dose\" of Regeneron's monoclonal antibody cocktail

The 55-year-old California Senator said Americans have sacrificed too much due to the \"incompetence of this administration\", referring to the COVID-19 pandemic that has claimed over 200,000 American lives and battered the country's economy

Trump has repeatedly flouted social-distancing guidelines meant to curb the virus' spread and ignored his own medical advisers

Many experts expressed skepticism about the Russian vaccine after the government declared its intention to give it to high-risk groups in October without data from large pivotal trials