Local appointments for COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 hard to come by
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Children under 5 years old are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, but some local parents say they...
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Minnesota expands COVID-19 antiviral access, closes some testing sites
Minnesota will close eight testing sites amid declines in COVID-19 testing but expand two others that will soon offer rapid...
Grocery chain Publix refuses to offer Covid-19 vaccines to children under five
Federal authorities have finally expanded access to Covid-19 vaccines to children age six months to five years, but the major...
Covid task force members worried about ‘misinformation’ being shared with Trump
WASHINGTON — Members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force during the Trump administration expressed concerns with each other about...
How Covid Tracking Apps Are Pivoting for Commercial Profit
Spector sees this current version of the Zoe app as a giant citizen science project. Users can sign up to...
New COVID-19 variants raise limited worries of new spikes
About one out of three COVID-19 cases in the United States now stem from the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of...
Social Media Swirls With Unsupported Claims About Cause of Justin and Hailey Bieber’s Medical Conditions
SciCheck Digest Pop star Justin Bieber announced he has Ramsay Hunt syndrome, a form of facial paralysis caused by a...
Scientists probe Japan’s remarkable COVID success in hunt for new vaccine to protect some of the most vulnerable
Tokyo — Japan's notable coronavirus pandemic resilience has generated scores of possible explanations, from the country's preference for going shoeless...
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German economy loses momentum at the end of Q2
People walk on a field in front of the skyline, during the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Berlin, Germany,...
Flu epidemic risks sweeping China left vulnerable by zero-Covid fixation
Chinese health officials are warning that the country’s focus on eradicating Covid-19 has left it unprepared for a possible flu...