Covid Live Updates: Austrian Adult Vaccination Order Approved

New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced on Tuesday that National Guard troops and government employees will become temporary substitute teachers.Credit…Morgan Lee/Associated Press As the Omicron variant spreads across the country, consuming school personnel, some states are resorting to increasingly creative measures to find the substitute teachers needed to keep schools open, in one case …

Merck’s Covid Pill Approved by FDA for High-Risk Adults

A Merck executive, Dr. Dean Li said on Thursday that preliminary laboratory studies had shown the drug to be equally effective against Omicron as it was against previous versions of the virus. The company and independent researchers are conducting experiments on how well the drug can stop the proliferation of the Omicron variant. Merck and …

Merck’s Covid Pill Approved by FDA for High-Risk Adults

A Merck executive, Dr. Dean Li said on Thursday that preliminary laboratory studies had shown the drug to be equally effective against Omicron as it was against previous versions of the virus. The company and independent researchers are conducting experiments on how well the drug can stop the proliferation of the Omicron variant. Merck and …

Redesign of Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden Approved

A much-discussed redesign of the Hirshhorn Sculpture Garden by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto has overcome its final hurdle in an approval process that began in 2018. On Thursday, the National Capital Planning Commission, the federal government’s central planning agency for Washington and the surrounding region, voted in favor of the $60 million project. Outdoor galleries …