4th of July travel: When to leave and other driving tips
Airports and roads have been packed this summer, mixing with inflation and labor shortages to create a dreadful travel season...
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Regents vote to end COVID vaccine mandate for higher education employees – The Nevada Independent
The Board of Regents for the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) voted 10-3 to end a COVID vaccine mandate...
EDITORIAL | Minnesota’s smart step to ease access to COVID drug
A pioneering move to ease access to a powerful COVID-19 treatment will help protect Minnesotans against the severe illness this...
An Infectious Disease Doctor’s Personal Experience With Covid: It Wasn’t ‘Just’ A Bad Cold
Dr. Mark Kortepeter has studied how to identify and contain infectious diseases for decades. Two and a half years into...
The FDA advises updates to COVID vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it had advised COVID-19 vaccine companies to produce an updated vaccine for...
Covid-19 Live Updates: Vaccines, Variants and Omicron News
BEIJING — June, for Shanghai, was supposed to be a time of triumph. After two months of strict lockdown, the...
GOP’s Ted Cruz feuds with Elmo over kids getting COVID-19 vaccines
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took aim at Sesame Street's "Elmo" after the popular children's show puppet promoted COVID-19...
News Scan for Jun 30, 2022
FDA recommends booster update targets BA.4 and BA.5Following a vaccine advisory group input earlier this week, the Food and Drug...
Real-world study of Pfizer vaccine in kids finds moderate Omicron protection
A real-world study in Israeli children ages 5 to 11 found that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provided moderate protection against infection...
NYC to provide Paxlovid at Covid-19 testing sites
New York City will begin offering free antiviral medications at mobile testing sites for vulnerable residents who test positive for...