The U.S Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) vaccine advisory panel is meeting Friday to consider drug partner Pfizer-BioNTech's application to offer their COVID-19 vaccine as a third-dose booster for patients 16 and older.
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President Biden on Thursday unveiled a series of steps to combat the newly surging pandemic, including the announcement of a forthcoming federal rule that all businesses with 100 or more employees have to ensure that every worker is either vaccinated for COVID-19 or submit to weekly testing for the coronavirus.
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June 1, 2021, marked the beginning of the second Atlantic Hurricane Season during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Over the past year, job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated housing insecurity among low-income renters. As of January 2021, nearly one in four of the nation’s 43 million renter households reported having missed at least one rent payment during the pandemic.
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Given the rise in COVID cases in Maryland associated with the delta variant, Johns Hopkins University is reinstating its mandate that all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks indoors, effective Thursday, Aug. 5.
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Top White House officials rebuked comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan on Wednesday after he advised his younger listeners against getting the coronavirus vaccine.
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We recently passed the one-year anniversary of “15 days to slow the spread.” We must acknowledge the substantial difficulties that continuous lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have had on Americans, particularly on our children and adolescents.
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A year into the coronavirus pandemic that is disproportionately ravaging African American lives both physically and economically, efforts are underway to target racism as a public health crisis that shortens lives and costs millions of dollars.
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