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Biden Administration May Offer Second Coronavirus Boosters to All Adults
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is considering whether to expand second coronavirus booster shots to adults under 50 in an effort to counter the latest, highly contagious variant, which has driven up hospitalization rates and deepened worries about waning immunity among those vaccinated or boosted at least six or so months ago. Expanding eligibility for […]
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Uptick in New Covid Cases Is Concerning but Not Surprising, Dr. Fauci Says
In the meantime, Dr. Fauci encouraged all eligible Americans to get vaccinated and boosted and expressed hope that Congress would soon pass a $10 billion Covid relief bill. Congress adjourned for a two-week recess last week without voting on the package, which would provide more funding for treatments, testing and vaccines. “We need this Covid […]
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Robert Kennedy Jr.’s Crusade Against Covid Vaccine Anguishes Family
Blake Fleetwood, a writer who calls Mr. Kennedy “an inspiration” and has been a friend and skiing companion since 1971, said he could not understand why Mr. Kennedy was “risking his whole life” of activism by “taking on this crusade.” “Why is he blowing his whole life’s work?” he asked. Mr. Kennedy, 68, began inveighing […]
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There Will Be No Post-Covid
There have been many stages of our collective Covid reaction. There was the initial panic, with the shortages of toilet paper (I still haven’t completely figured that one out) and Lysol. In those days, one dared not even cough in public. I had a cold when I was in Los Angeles. I sneezed and a […]
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What Would Covid Being Endemic Mean For Travel?
“Thirty-one percent is the highest it has ever been,” since the company started the tracking survey in March 2020, said Mr. Eylon. “It’s an early indication that the travelers are going through a change of mind-set.” This comes after domestic leisure travel had a strong year in 2021, rebounding well after extraordinary losses in 2020, […]
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Biden’s Pandemic Fight: Inside the Setbacks of the First Year
WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky was stunned. Working from her home outside Boston on a Friday night in late July, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had just learned from members of her staff that vaccinated Americans were spreading the coronavirus. Vaccines had been the core of President Biden’s pandemic strategy […]
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How The mRNA Vaccines Were Made: Halting Progress and Happy Accidents
“I said, ‘I am an RNA scientist. I can do anything with RNA,’” Dr. Karikó recalled telling Dr. Weissman. He asked her: Could you make an H.I.V. vaccine? “Oh yeah, oh yeah, I can do it,” Dr. Karikó said. Up to that point, commercial vaccines had carried modified viruses or pieces of them into the […]
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How to Travel Responsibly During the Holidays Amid Omicron Wave
Taylor Allen wanted to be a responsible traveler, but she was finding it difficult. Late last week at least seven people Ms. Allen knew in Brooklyn posted on Instagram that they’d tested positive for the coronavirus. She had not seen any of them in person. But after developing an intense headache and runny nose on […]
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Fauci Warns Omicron is ‘Extraordinary,’ Offers Holiday Guidance
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, warned on Sunday that the extraordinarily contagious Omicron variant of the coronavirus was raging worldwide and that it was likely to cause another major surge in the United States, especially among the unvaccinated. “This virus is extraordinary,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” […]
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