Covid-19: Moderna Begins Testing Its Vaccine in Children
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March 21, 2021, 10:46 a.m. ETMarch 21, 2021, 10:46 a.m. ET
Europe’s drug regulator is pushing back on fears about the AstraZeneca vaccine. And more than a dozen countries have suspended the use of the vaccine, although Australia, Britain and Thailand are moving ahead with it.
Brittany Siguenza, 5, watching her mother receive a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Revere, Mass., on Friday.Credit.CJ Gunther/EPA, via Shutterstock
The drug company Moderna has begun a study that will test its Covid vaccine in children under 12, including babies as young as six months, the company said on Tuesday.
Covid-19: Mississippi Is Second State to Open Vaccination to All Adults
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March 21, 2021, 10:54 a.m. ETMarch 21, 2021, 10:54 a.m. ET
Germany, France, Spain and Italy have joined other countries in pausing use of AstraZeneca’s vaccine. Italy imposed new lockdown measures as Europe confronts a third wave of the virus.
Tara Gallion prepared a dose of the Moderna vaccine at the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Miss., in January.Credit.Rory Doyle for The New York Times
Mississippi will become the second state to open Covid-19 vaccinations to all of its adult residents, following a call from President Biden for all states to do so by May 1.
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Covid-19: California, With 50,000 Lost, Has More Deaths Than Any Other State
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April 1, 2021, 10:12 a.m. ETApril 1, 2021, 10:12 a.m. ET
A study that looked at the broad rollout of the Pfizer vaccine confirms that it is highly effective. The U.S. plans to send millions of masks to vulnerable communities.
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It was December, as Covid-19 deaths were besieging California, and Helen Cordova, an intensive care unit nurse in Los Angeles, was trying to describe what it was like.
“This is a very real disease,” Ms. Cordova said. “Those images of inside of hospitals, that’s very accurate.”
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