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18 charged with COVID-19 fraud schemes - UPI.com Prosecutors have brought charges against 18 people, including doctors and owners of medical businesses, for defrauding the government of more than $490 million that was to go toward fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. UPI

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Justice Department officials said the law enforcement action was the largest ever to target healthcare schemes that exploited the pandemic, resulting in charges laid against 18 defendants in nine federal districts and more than $16 million in cash seized.

The NIH has poured $1 billion into long Covid research — with little to show for it The federal government has burned through more than $1 billion to study long Covid, and there's basically nothing to show for it. Rachel Cohrs STAT

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The National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatments — despite a clear mandate from Congress to study them. And the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism, especially one intervention that experts and advocates say may actually make some patients’ long Covid symptoms worse.

New White House plan aims to provide uninsured with free Covid-19 vaccines | CNN Politics The Biden administration unveiled Tuesday a $1.1 billion program aimed at providing Covid-19 vaccines and treatments to the uninsured at no cost after the federal supply is exhausted. Tami Luhby CNN

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