Covid-19 Live Updates: Some U.S. Colleges Will Require Vaccinations in the Fall
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Walgreens acknowledges it hadn’t been following U.S. guidance on timing between Pfizer vaccine doses and will start scheduling them three weeks apart. Everyone in New Jersey aged 16 and over will soon be eligible for vaccines.
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Cornell University is requiring all students who will be on campus in the fall of 2021 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Students walked through Ho Plaza on the Cornell campus in Ithaca, N.Y., before the school switched to online instruction last spring.Credit.Heather Ainsworth for The New York Times
How White Evangelicalsâ Vaccine Refusal Could Prolong the Pandemic
Millions of white evangelical adults in the U.S. do not intend to get vaccinated against Covid-19. Tenets of faith and mistrust of science play a role; so does politics.
Demonstrators hold signs during a protest outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta last month.Credit.Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg
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Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Okla., refused to get a Covid-19 vaccine because she believed it contained âaborted cell tissue.â
Nathan French, who leads a nondenominational ministry in Tacoma, Wash., said he received a divine message that God was the ultimate healer and deliverer: âThe vaccine is not the savior.â
Across white evangelical America, reasons not to get vaccinated have spread as quickly as the virus that public health officials are hoping to overcome through herd immunity.
Covid-19 Live Updates: Walgreens Wasnât Following U.S. Guidance on Pfizer Vaccine Spacing
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But following complaints, the pharmacy chain will start scheduling Pfizer vaccine doses three weeks apart. The Navajo Nation has managed to control what was once one of the worst outbreaks in the United States. But infections are rising nationally, and health officials are warning of another surge.
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Gov. Greg Gianforte of Montana received a shot of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a Walgreenâs pharmacy last week in Helena, Mont.Credit.Thom Bridge/Independent Record, via Associated Press
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