In Depth: Vaccinating the world against Covid--the complications and challenge

In delivering vaccines, pharmaceutical companies aided by monumental government investments have given humanity a miraculous shot at liberation from the worst pandemic in a century.

But wealthy countries have captured an overwhelming share of the benefit. Only 0.3 percent of the vaccine doses administered globally have been given in the 29 poorest countries, home to about 9 percent of the world’s population.

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Indian government promises more vaccines; daily COVID-19 deaths stay above 4,000

Analysis: The right decision wrongly handled’: Inside the Biden administration’s abrupt reversal on masks

Masks: Largest U.S. nurses union criticizes CDC new policy on masks

Masks: Some experts think policies are changing too fast, concerned about honor code .

Masks still should be used in U.S. Schools--CDC

Schools in the U.S. should continue to use masks, C.D.C. advises.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday clarified coronavirus advice for U.S. schools, recommending the continued, universal use of masks and physical distancing, after the agency’s sudden announcement that vaccinated Americans could forego masks indoors.

All schools teaching students from kindergarten through grade 12 should continue to implement proper mask-wearing through the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the C.D.C. said. The agency also kept in place its suggestions to observe physical distancing and to test for coronavirus infections.

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New mask guidance does not grant permission for widespread mask removal: CDC Director Walensky

New mask guidance for vaccinated individuals does not grant permission for widespread removal of masks, Centers of Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.

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

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

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

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

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

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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Additional explanation about the CDC’s new mask guidelines

States and stores sort out how to adjust to new CDC mask guidelines

New large study finds Pfizer, Moderna vaccines to be 94 percent in health care workers

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