The main reason for the discrepancies is that state and county data does not always properly link the record of people’s booster shots to their initial vaccinations. View original article Contributor: Maggie Astor
Vaccinating Africa is critical to protecting the continent and the world against dangerous variants, but supply isn’t the only obstacle countries face. View original article Contributor: Stephanie Nolen
Medicare has extended coverage of remote health care. While telehealth removed barriers to care for many during the pandemic, some say there is more to be done. View original article Contributor: Paula Span
NEW YORK — Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced today that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Hochul said the decision to impose a mask mandate was based on state’s weekly seven-day case rate, as well … Read more
Federal officials point to the city’s mandate as a success story and a shield against new Covid outbreaks at hospitals and nursing homes. View original article Contributor: Reed Abelson
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As Katharine Silbaugh sees it, one mark of a good public policy is being both big and small: big in its potential impact, small in its disruption to people’s lives. Silbaugh, a lawyer and one of the 240 elected “town meeting members” who make up local government in the picturesque Boston suburb of Brookline, thinks … Read more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now says that 16- and 17-year olds can get a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The decision expands the agency’s emergency use authorization for booster doses, which it issued on Nov. 19 for adults 18 and older. As with the previous group, the FDA recommends that those … Read more