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As the COVID-19 omicron variant surges across the United States, top federal health officials are looking to add a negative test along with its five-day isolation restrictions for asymptomatic Americans who catch the coronavirus, the White House’s top medical adviser said Sunday.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating more cruise ships due to new cases of COVID-19 as the omicron variant drives extremely high infection levels in the industry hub of Florida.

Most Americans should be given the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot that can cause rare but serious blood clots, U.S. health officials said Thursday.

Federal health officials on Monday extended for nearly three more months its rules that cruise ships must follow to sail during the pandemic.

Black COVID-19 patients at disadvantage during COVID triageAs hospitals overflow with delta patients, parts of the U.S. are at or close to the point when doctors have to choose who gets treatment based on who is more likely to survive. But at least one common method used to score a person’s chances of survival seems to undervalue Black lives, according to two new studies. A popular, 25-year-old scoring system based on measures from several organ systems gave higher ratings — indicating lower chances of survival — to Black COVID-19 patients than other races admitted at Yale New Haven Health System Hospitals in Connecticut.