Medical groups affiliated with major health systems like Sutter Health, Adventist Health and CommonSpirit Health were among those that received federal COVID-19 relief loans for small businesses.

As part of its strategy to administer the vaccine as quickly as possible, the Trump administration has agreed to invest more than half a billion in tax dollars in ApiJect Systems America, a young company whose injector is not approved by federal health authorities and that hasn't yet set up a factory to manufacture the devices.

A small study strengthens evidence that a pregnant woman infected with the coronavirus might be able to spread it to her fetus.

While hospital patients can get the findings back within a day, people getting tested at urgent care centers, community health centers, pharmacies and government-run drive-thru or walk-up sites are often waiting a week or more.