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A Calif. elementary school teacher took off her mask for a read-aloud. Within days, half her class was positive for delta.
The Marin County, Calif. outbreak, detailed in a new CDC report, underscores the risks for unvaccinated children under 12 as delta rampages across the country.
Most nursing homes won’t use pharmacy chains to administer coronavirus booster shots
This time, many will rely on their own pharmacies, or possibly arrange for residents to get vaccinated during outings to stores such as Walmart.
FDA orders three small e-cigarette makers to pull products from the market
It marked the first in a series of decisions that could imperil products sold by Juul and hundreds of other e-cigarette, hookah, cigar and pipe manufacturers.
Pediatricians besieged by parents seeking coronavirus shots for kids under 12
Some parents are actively scouting ways to get their children jabbed before the start of school.
A Florida ER doctor offered $50 mask exemption letters for kids. Then his hospital found out.
The 2018 med school grad offered the service on a Facebook page for parents against mask requirements.
Sturgis motorcycle rally linked to more than 100 coronavirus infections amid delta variant’s spread
The 121 cases among five states almost certainly represent an undercount because the rally concluded less than two weeks ago and contact tracing is challenging in connection with an event that lures attendees nationwide.
Inconclusive review of virus origins prompts calls for more probes: ‘We have to get to the bottom of this’
The administration’s classified review, with portions set to be publicly released as soon as this week, doesn’t rule out that the virus emerged in the wild or that it leaked from a laboratory, officials said.
‘I’m still not planning to get it’: FDA approval not swaying some vaccine holdouts
Skeptics who were waiting on regulators now say they have new doubts.
The lament of covid-19 caregivers in the nation’s safety-net hospitals: ‘What could be next?’
The pandemic is straining the nation’s already stretched health-care system, but there are differences in the suffering.
