A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Boston on June 17, 2021. Adam Glanzman / Bloomberg / Getty Images At the current vaccination rate, according to a CNN analysis of data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it will take until mid-February for all eligible Americans to … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Doses of molnupiravir.Credit…Agence France-Presse — Getty Images The U.S. government will invest $3.2 billion to develop antiviral pills for Covid-19, the Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday. Such a treatment could keep people out of the hospital and potentially save many lives in the years to … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: People walking along a side walk by the beach in Palm Beach, Fla., last week.Credit…Saul Martinez for The New York Times The Florida Department of Health will no longer update its Covid-19 dashboard and will suspend daily case and vaccine reports, the governor’s office confirmed on Friday. Officials will … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Prisoners received Covid-19 vaccine shots in April at the Bolivar County Correctional Facility in Cleveland, Miss.Credit…Spencer Platt/Getty Images Vaccinations in many American prisons, jails and detention centers are lagging far behind the United States as a whole, prompting public health officials to worry that these settings will remain fertile … Read more
One hundred million Americans have received their second of two shots or a one-time vaccine, marking “significant advances” in the fight against COVID-19, White House officials said Friday. “That’s 100 million Americans with a sense of relief and peace of mind who know they are protected from the virus after a long and tough year,” … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: A man who died of complications from the coronavirus was being cremated in Mumbai on Wednesday.Credit…Atul Loke for The New York Times India’s rapidly worsening coronavirus outbreak is now expanding on a scale beyond any previously measured in more than a year of the pandemic: The health ministry reported … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday relaxed guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals, stating that they can visit other vaccinated individuals indoors without wearing masks or physical distance. You can also visit unvaccinated individuals from a single household who have a low risk of severe COVID-19 illness indoors – without a mask or … Read more
Another COVID-19 vaccine is about to go on sale – a single vaccine from Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen. The company just released an efficacy report based on data from its Phase 3 study that found the new vaccine to be 66% overall effective at preventing moderate to severe incarnations of COVID-19 in those … Read more