Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Thursday that the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was politicized, and alleged that the federal government had lied to the American public about the effectiveness of vaccines and masks.…

In order to expand testing access and help stop the spread of the omicron variant, the Biden administration announced this week that it would begin distributing millions of COVID-19 tests and masks to Americans for free. Infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica…