Covid-19 vaccine developers will get a word with the Biden administration before it signs off on a controversial plan to waive their coveted intellectual property rights, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said.

Almost 9 million individual returns are in being held in IRS “purgatory” because they potentially contain errors, an official from the IRS’s Taxpayer Advocate Service said Wednesday.

Norway will remove the AstraZeneca Plc shots from its Covid-19 inoculation program due to the risk of rare blood clots, in a move the country said will have little effect on the national vaccination timeline.

A judge in London ruled that gym chain Virgin Active can wipe out the rent arrears on most of its venues and avoid future steep payments, despite the opposition of a majority of its creditors.

Twenty eight people developed blood clots with low platelets after receiving Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Raphael Koch, a retailer of medical devices in the small Swiss town of Wil, has been busy for the past two weeks fielding a flurry of phone calls. Most are from Indians or India-based companies looking for oxygen concentrators, with some even wanting as many as 500 at once.