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Pregnant people are still not getting vaccinated against Covid

Enlarge (credit: Getty | Dmitry Rogulin ) Calendar year three into the pandemic, and vaccination coverage among pregnant people remains staggeringly low. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of January 1, just over 40 percent of pregnant people in the United States between age 18 and 49 were […]

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MGM Resorts Vaccinations Required for New Hires

In a move that just about everyone saw coming, MGM Resorts vaccinations will be required in order to work for the company. Newly hired individuals who work for MGM on an hourly basis must show proof of a vaccination by August 30th. Salaried employees, whether newly hired or not, must show proof by October 15th. […]

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Biden shifts strategy as national vaccination rate continues to slow

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) By July 4—two months from today—the Biden administration wants to have 70 percent of American adults vaccinated with at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine and […]

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Fauci: Vaccines for first-graders could be authorized by September

Enlarge / Students wait to have their portraits taken for school picture day on Sept. 23, 2020, in Stamford, Connecticut. (credit: John Moore | Getty Images) Children as young as first graders may be able to get the coronavirus vaccine by the time school starts in September, presuming trials are successful in those age groups, […]

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COVID-19 vaccine rollout Begins from the US

Expand / NEW YORK, NY – DECEMBER 14: Sandra Lindsay, abandoned, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is pleased with the COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester from the Queens borough of Nyc. In the aftermath of positive outcomes from big scale trials, lots of states are embracing the COVID-19 vaccine created by […]