Beginning at 8:15 a.m. on Monday, Vermonters age 50 and older will be able to make an appointment for the COVID-19 vaccine. Going online to healthvermont.gov/MyVaccine is the fastest way to make an appointment, and there are enough slots at sites throughout Vermont for everyone who is eligible, the state […]
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Our 11 News Call For Action team pens a weekly column for our news partner The Gazette. Previous columns can be found here. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – With spring break here for many students and summer vacation just around the corner, many health agencies are still saying people should avoid travel […]
With Spring Break here for many students and summer vacation just around the corner, many health agencies are still saying people should avoid travel because of the risk of getting and spreading COVID-19. With that in mind, I know many people are making plans to travel once they’re fully vaccinated. The Better Business Bureau (BBB) wants to make sure you […]
Federal health officials have directed states to make all adults eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccination by May 1, White House senior adviser for COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt said Wednesday. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the directive days after President Joe Biden set the May 1 […]
Nursing student Tristan Ruch administers a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to Luis Torres, a graduate student who is studying MRI research, at Nicholas Recreation Center at UW-Madison in February. RUTHIE HAUGE Yvonne Kim | The Capital Times Sign up for the Morning Update email newsletter Members of the University […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will direct states to make all adults eligible for coronavirus vaccinations no later than May 1, a move that he said could help the United States return to some sense of normalcy by Independence Day. In his address marking the anniversary […]
Denmark’s government said Wednesday it is joining forces with businesses to develop a digital passport that would show whether people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, allowing them to travel and help ease restrictions on public life. Finance Minister Morten Boedskov told a news conference that “in three, four months, […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. policymakers are touting the gradual rise in the number of people who have received a coronavirus vaccination as the beginning of the end of the economy’s fight with the pandemic, but real-time data suggests the awaited rebound is still at the starting line. The worst of […]
With online registrations largely available only through individual providers, some seniors and their loved ones raced to sign up for openings that begin Monday. They refreshed Web pages, tested every link, and waited for hours, often to no avail. They described outdated information pages and glitchy websites that put them […]
Dr. Sarah Mohtadi administers COVID-19 vaccine at a drive-in vaccination site at the Long Beach Convention Center on Thursday. (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) The city of Long Beach this week expanded distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to food workers, the first group of essential workers in Los Angeles County […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom holds up a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center in Los Angeles on Dec. 14. (Jae C. Hong / Associated Press) Gov. Gavin Newsom urged Californians to “hold me accountable” to a goal of administering 1 million doses of […]
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LAKE COUNTY, Fla. – It was a busy New Year’s Eve day outside the Cooper Memorial Library in Clermont where people 65 or older waited in their cars to get their Covid-19 immunization shot. The majority of people had made an appointment by phone–but for others like 68-year-old Ken Wilde, […]
Texas vaccinations have started slowly, but health officials believe that could change in the next few weeks. FORT WORTH, Texas — Getting a COVID-19 vaccine ready in less than a year was a scientific triumph, but getting shots into arms hasn’t been quite as successful. “All I can say is […]
Thousands of truckers endured Christmas Eve stranded near a major British port, ensnared in the chaos unleashed by a new coronavirus strain, as Western nations accelerated vaccination programmes. European nations on Wednesday had started easing travel bans on Britain to contain a new coronavirus strain that UK officials believe spreads […]
A woman wearing a protective mask passes by the bleachers for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic BMX course Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, in Tokyo. Kiichiro Sato AP BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff says he expects coronavirus vaccinations to start in Germany “in the very first days” of the […]