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[TRENDING NEWS] Will High Vaccination Rates Help Spain Weather New Variant?

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Author: BY NICHOLAS CASEY - Publish Date: December 2, 2021 at 11:47PM Spain surpassed others in Europe by avoiding politicized debate about Covid shots. Citizens also largely heeded the health guidance from their leaders.

[TRENDING NEWS] New variant displaying a ‘big jump in evolution’ detected in South Africa.

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Author: BY LYNSEY CHUTEL - Publish Date: November 26, 2021 at 03:30AM The density of mutations raises concerns. While it’s too early to say, new variants can pose a threat to progress or limit a vaccine’s effectiveness.

[TRENDING NEWS] Weekly Health Quiz: Exercise, Appetite and the First Case of Covid

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Author: BY TOBY BILANOW - Publish Date: November 25, 2021 at 12:28AM Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

[TRENDING NEWS] Queen Elizabeth Urged by Doctors to Rest at Least 2 Weeks

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Author: BY MARK LANDLER - Publish Date: October 30, 2021 at 12:51AM The advice from her medical team has heightened the worry about the health of the 95-year-old monarch, who has canceled the public appearances that had been on her calendar.

[TRENDING NEWS] Weekly Health Quiz: Problem Foods, Flu and Covid Boosters

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Author: BY TOBY BILANOW - Publish Date: October 29, 2021 at 12:48AM Test your knowledge of this week’s health news.

[TRENDING NEWS] Public Health Officials Face Fury Over Covid Rules

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Author: BY NAILAH MORGAN - Publish Date: October 17, 2021 at 05:12AM At public meetings across the country, local officials making health decisions have endured threats and hostility over pandemic restrictions.

[TRENDING NEWS] Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots

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Author: BY JAN HOFFMAN - Publish Date: October 12, 2021 at 01:00AM The number of eligible people still weighing whether to get a Covid vaccine has sharply dwindled, leaving an unvaccinated population that is mostly hard-core refusers.

[TRENDING NEWS] Gov. Hochul chooses Mary Bassett to lead N.Y.’s health department.

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Author: BY GRACE ASHFORD - Publish Date: September 29, 2021 at 11:42PM Dr. Bassett ran New York City’s health department with acclaim through a series of crises.

[TRENDING NEWS] Medical Journals Call Climate Change the ‘Greatest Threat to Global Public Health’

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Author: BY WINSTON CHOI-SCHAGRIN - Publish Date: September 8, 2021 at 03:25AM An editorial published by more than 200 journals worldwide warned of ‘catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse.’

[TRENDING NEWS] Fauci calls booster shots ‘likely,’ not now but in future, citing early signs that vaccine immunity may wane.

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Author: BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK - Publish Date: August 12, 2021 at 11:51PM Health officials are studying the durability of the vaccine in different groups, he said, and “we will be prepared to give boosters” if the vaccines’ protection ebbs.

[TRENDING NEWS] California mandates Covid vaccines for indoor health care workers, largely removing a testing option.

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Author: BY DANIEL E. SLOTNIK - Publish Date: August 7, 2021 at 12:36AM The new policy marks a significant escalation from the requirement announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom just last week.

[TRENDING NEWS] Erin Gilmer, Disability Rights Activist, Dies at 38

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Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: July 18, 2021 at 03:26AM She fought for a more compassionate health care system, bringing an extensive knowledge of policy and even more extensive firsthand experience as a patient.

[TRENDING NEWS] OSHA’s new workplace safety rule on Covid is limited to the health care industry.

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Author: BY NOAM SCHEIBER - Publish Date: June 11, 2021 at 12:49AM The Labor Department says it will issue optional guidance to other employers. Some advocacy groups say more is needed.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Final Push to End the Coronavirus Pandemic in the U.S.

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Author: BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD - Publish Date: February 27, 2021 at 07:00AM At last, shots are going into arms in significant numbers, but too many people could still fall through the cracks.

[TRENDING NEWS] Postcard From Peru: Why the Morality Plays Inside The Times Won’t Stop

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Author: BY BEN SMITH - Publish Date: February 15, 2021 at 06:55AM Other news organizations have their own personnel dramas. But none attract the spotlight like The Times.

[TRENDING NEWS] Joseph Sonnabend, Early Force in Fight Against AIDS, Dies at 88

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Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: January 31, 2021 at 06:54AM At the epicenter of the epidemic in New York City, he was a pioneer researcher who, as a clinician, also made house calls.

[TRENDING NEWS] Please, Biden, Try for 2 Million Shots a Day

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Author: BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG - Publish Date: January 26, 2021 at 07:50AM The administration’s vaccine plan isn’t ambitious enough.

[TRENDING NEWS] Biden Plans Coronavirus Vaccination Blitz After Inauguration

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Author: BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG AND KATHERINE J. WU - Publish Date: January 9, 2021 at 08:08AM The incoming Biden administration plans to set up federally run mass vaccination sites and to release all government-held vials, rather than hold some back for second doses.

[TRENDING NEWS] The Pandemic’s Inhuman Demands

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Author: BY MICHELLE GOLDBERG - Publish Date: December 22, 2020 at 08:00AM Emotional respite has become a scarce public resource.

[TRENDING NEWS] Can a Televised Vaccination Undo Months of Skepticism?

Author: BY JEREMY W. PETERS - Publish Date: December 19, 2020 at 07:23AM A few minutes of morning television distilled the various ways that President Trump and his political allies have undermined confidence in the science about the virus.