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Dialysis clinics are often located in areas that are underserved by other forms of health care. And many already vaccinate their patients against<strong> </strong>other illnesses.
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Racial Equity In Vaccination? Dialysis Centers Can Help With That

Mar 30, 2021
One smart way of getting the vaccine to communities at high risk of COVID-19: Take it to places many patients already visit three times a week.
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Goats and Soda
The relatively empty flights of past months are filling up as more people get vaccinated — and make summer plans. Are there still risks to weigh?
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Coronavirus FAQ: To Travel Or Not To Travel? Plus, Tattoos And Vaccines Can Mix

Mar 26, 2021
Airports are getting busier, but the CDC hasn't issued new guidelines for vaccinated folks. What's a wannabe traveler to do? And is it OK to get a vaccine if you just got tattooed? Or have no spleen?
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Nevadans Feel Guilt, Envy Online Following COVID Vaccines

Mar 11, 2021

I’m sure you've seen it, pictures and videos on social media of COVID-19 vaccination cards and injections.

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Coronavirus Updates
Workers at an urgent care facility in Woodbridge, Va., check health records while testing patients for COVID-19 on April 15, 2020.
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Electronic Health Records May Be Delaying COVID-19 Vaccinations

Feb 10, 2021
The same electronic systems used to record when patients get a physical or go to the ER are also used to log data when coronavirus vaccines are given. But the systems don't share information easily.
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For many families, one of the hardest things about this pandemic is not being able to see loved ones who live far away.
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My Mother Got Vaccinated. Is It Now Safe To Visit?

Feb 08, 2021
I haven't seen my mother in over a year. I was going to visit in April to celebrate her 90th birthday but the pandemic put that on hold. Now that she's been vaccinated is it time for the birthday hug?
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Coronavirus Updates
People wait in line to enter a COVID-19 vaccination site at Yankee Stadium on Friday in the Bronx borough of New York City.
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New York Scrambles To Improve Vaccination Acceptance In Black And Latino Communities

Feb 05, 2021
The state opened a mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on Friday and is working with Black pastors to overcome worries about vaccine safety.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Israelis receive a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine from medical professionals at a vaccination center set up on a mall parking lot in Givataim, Israel, during a nationwide lockdown to curb the spread of the virus, on Jan. 20.
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Vaccines For Data: Israel's Pfizer Deal Drives Quick Rollout — And Privacy Worries

Jan 31, 2021
Israel paid a premium, locked in an early supply of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines and agreed to share data from Israel's centralized trove of medical statistics. Privacy advocates have some misgivings.
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Gaming Roundup: What Will Become of Las Vegas Sands Without Sheldon Adelson

Jan 27, 2021

Questions abound for the gaming world just a month into an eventful winter. 

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Opinion: Why I'm An Invisible Man In The Global Vaccine Campaign

Jan 26, 2021
Nigerian physician Ifeanyi Nsofor writes: "I was elated when the first COVID-19 vaccine was shown to be effective. ...My joy was cut short when richer Western nations began buying up the vaccine doses."
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No lollipops at the vaccination center, but they were giving out stickers.
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Putting A Roof On Risk With A COVID-19 Vaccine Jab

Jan 14, 2021
NPR's Bob Mondello is back from his vaccination appointment and feeling safer.
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Coronavirus Updates
The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of the year, health officials said this week.
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U.S. Likely Will Miss Goal Of Vaccinating 20 Million By The New Year

Dec 31, 2020
Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.
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Coronavirus Updates
A health care worker administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to personal support worker Anita Quidangen at The Michener Institute, in Toronto, Canada, on Monday. Quidangen was one of the first people in Canada to receive the shot.
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Canada Administers Its 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Shots

Dec 14, 2020
Canada joins the United Kingdom and the United States as the first Western countries to provide the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, as the coronavirus pandemic rages toward winter.
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Shots - Health News
Medical staff members treat a patient with COVID-19 last week in the intensive care unit of United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. Once a COVID-19 vaccine is available, experts say immunizing health workers first is the best way to curb deaths and st
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Doses To Go To Health Workers, Say CDC Advisers

Nov 05, 2020
A team of independent advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a science-based outline for deploying a vaccine when it's ready. The goal is to stop deaths and viral spread fast.
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Shots - Health News
Tony Potts, a 69-year-old retiree living in Ormond Beach, Fla., receives his first injection earlier this year as a participant in a Phase 3 clinical trial of Moderna's COVID-19 candidate vaccine.
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Advisers To CDC Debate How COVID-19 Vaccine Should Be Rolled Out

Oct 30, 2020
In advance of a COVID-19 vaccine being available, a group of independent medical advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention weighed Friday who should get the vaccine first and how.
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Shots - Health News
Doctors are urging parents to keep all their child's vaccinations up to date — now, more than ever.
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Don't Skip Your Child's Well Check: Delays In Vaccines Could Add Up To Big Problems

Apr 29, 2020
Telemedicine has its limits. And postponing shots could lead to a resurgence of diseases like measles. Doctors are taking steps to make their offices safe for kids who need to come in.
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Flu Season Already Filling Hospital Beds

Dec 11, 2019

Updated Dec. 11, 2019

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New research illuminates how the measles virus may suppress the immune system after an infection.
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Measles Virus May Wipe Out Immune Protection For Other Diseases

Oct 31, 2019
Another reason not to skip the measles vaccine: A measles infection may cause lasting harm to the immune system, research finds, making patients more vulnerable to other diseases.
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Opinion: We Are Risking Health And Life

Aug 24, 2019

The government wants to withhold flu shots from migrants in detention centers even though doctors advise vaccinations for all detainees promptly upon arrival.

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Measles used to be a common childhood disease, but after an effective vaccine was developed, the disease was declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000. This year's outbreaks, however, put that status in jeopardy.
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Is Measles Here To Stay?

Apr 30, 2019
Vaccination eliminated measles from the U.S. nearly 20 years ago. But with this year's record-setting outbreak, are we close to measles making a sustained comeback?
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National
The Washington state Senate passed a bill on Wednesday that would remove the personal belief exemption from the required vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella. Here, people protest the related house bill outside Washington's Legislative Building in
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Washington State Senate Passes Bill Removing Exemption For Measles Vaccine

Apr 18, 2019
The bill removes the personal belief exemption from required childhood vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella. Seventeen states allow exemptions based on philosophical objections.
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Shots - Health News
People lined up Wednesday to be vaccinated amid a mumps outbreak on the Temple University campus in Philadelphia.
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Vaccination Push Underway To Contain Mumps Outbreak In Philadelphia

Mar 28, 2019
Temple University officials say the vast majority of students who are part of a mumps outbreak had been immunized previously with a vaccine that protects against measles, mumps and rubella.
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National
A man walks through the parking lot of a supermarket in New York's Rockland County, which has declared a state of emergency over a measles outbreak.
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N.Y. Suburb Declares Measles Emergency, Bars Unvaccinated Minors From Public Places

Mar 27, 2019

Rockland County declared a state of emergency after more than 150 people contracted the virus in recent months.

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Case Of Mumps Confirmed In southern Arizona

Mar 09, 2019
DOUGLAS, Ariz. (AP) — Cochise County in southern Arizona is urging parents to vaccinate children after a confirmed case of mumps there.

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Shots - Health News
Hesitancy about vaccination in a community has a lot to do with acculturation to its norms.
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Medical Anthropologist Explores 'Vaccine Hesitancy'

Feb 13, 2019
Families learn to be skeptical about vaccines in communities where incomplete vaccination is the norm. A researcher into the phenomenon found that people are ready to listen, if they're heard, too.
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Amber Gorrow and her daughter, Eleanor, 3, pick out a show to watch after Eleanor's nap at their home in Vancouver, Wash., on Wednesday. Eleanor has gotten her first measles vaccine, but Gorrow's son, Leon, 8 weeks, is still too young to be immunized.
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Measles Cases Mount In Pacific Northwest Outbreak

Feb 08, 2019
So far this year, 55 measles cases have been confirmed in Washington state, most of them in unvaccinated children. The outbreak's epicenter is Clark County, Wash., just north of Portland, Ore.

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