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Indian variant: UK may start vaccinating young people in hotspots, and how much faster does it spread?

Sat, 2021-05-15 13:12 — mike kraft

UK may start vaccinating young people in hotspots to combat spread of variant found in India Growing concerns over the spread of the coronavirus variant first identified in India may force the United Kingdom to tweak its Covid-19 vaccination program to prioritize people in the most affected areas, a top health official said Friday. Ivana Kottasová and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN CNN

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Biden admin shifts billions in emergency stockpile and Covid-related funds to caring for refugees at souther border.

Sat, 2021-05-15 12:57 — mike kraft

Biden admin reroutes billions in emergency stockpile, Covid funds to border crunch The reshuffling illustrates the extraordinary financial toll that sheltering more than 20,000 unaccompanied children has taken on the department so far this year. Adam Cancryn POLITICO

The Department of Health and Human Services has diverted more than $2 billion meant for other health initiatives toward covering the cost of caring for unaccompanied immigrant children, as the Biden administration grapples with a record influx of migrants on the southern border.

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U.S. federal parks, buildings will not require masks for vaccinated -U.S. official

Sat, 2021-05-15 12:41 — mike kraft

U.S. federal parks, buildings will not require masks for vaccinated -U.S. official New guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released this week means that fully vaccinated staff, contractors and visitors no longer need masks in federal buildings or on federal lands, according to an official with the Office of Management and... Reuters Staff U.S.

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Outreach workers hit the streets to encourage hesitators to get vaccinated change minds

Sat, 2021-05-15 12:36 — mike kraft

As vaccinations drop, outreach workers hit the streets to change minds Volunteers across the country are responding to people's fears, coaxing the hesitant and removing obstacles for those who want to get vaccinated. NBC News

DETROIT — Tanika Knighton knows how devastating Covid-19 can be: Her 62-year-old father died of the disease last spring, and she and her husband both got very sick last year.

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NYTimes Survey: 723 Epidemiologists on When and How the U.S. Can Fully Return to Normal

Sat, 2021-05-15 11:55 — mike kraft

Covid-19 cases are decreasing in the United States, and masks are no longer required everywhere, but the pandemic is not over — and won’t be until younger children can also be vaccinated, epidemiologists said in a new survey by The New York Times.

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