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Research suggests that reducing income inequality could boost for children the chances at success in the future.

Millions continue to refuse coronavirus shots as the delta variant drives new outbreaks

Tennessee Health Commissioner Lisa Piercey said the state would restart its outreach recommending vaccinations for children and teens, including offering them at events on school property, as early as next week.

“It is one of the most infectious respiratory viruses … I have seen in my 20-year career,” the CDC chief said.

Emerging data suggest that giving more shots to those with fragile immune systems may enhance their bodies’ disease-fighting response.

Six senior health-care workers were fired by a New Jersey hospital system after they failed to comply with an order to get vaccinated by the end of June.

Universal vaccination of health workers would “protect all patients,” American Hospital Association says.

The agreement announced Wednesday by a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general could set aside money for communities as soon as the end of September.

The decline, which is the largest seen in a single year since World War II, reflects the pandemic’s sustained toll on Americans, particularly the disproportionate impact of covid-19 on communities of color.

Experts say the threat from lambda is insignificant next to the highly transmissible delta variant, which is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated people and causing hospitalizations to spike.