Covid-19 Live Updates: Vaccinations Hit Record High While Experts Debate Fourth Wave
In his Easter address, Pope Francis calls on world leaders to expand access to vaccines. Virus variants spread across the U.S. and threaten progress.
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Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines were given out at New Hope Baptist Church last month in Newark.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
Vaccinations against Covid-19 may be accelerating in the United States, but the Biden administration’s intervention at a troubled plant that ruined millions of vaccine doses, along with the continuing threat of dangerous variants of the coronavirus, suggest that the road to defeating the virus is likely to take many unpredictable twists and turns.
Developing ‘vaccine diplomacy,’ says Peter Hotez in his new book, is the key to ‘Preventing the Next Pandemic,’ as critical as any other international security threat.
Peter J. Hotez. Image: Agapito Sanchez, Baylor College of Medicine
‘Political Allegiances Are Defining Science’
A scientist, pediatrician, and global health advocate, author Peter J. Hotez, MD, PhD, couldn’t have had a better demonstration of what his new book is about if he’d orchestrated it, himself.
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Preventing the Next Pandemic: Vaccine Diplomacy in a Time of Anti-Science was released today (March 2) by Johns Hopkins University Press, the Republican governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, abruptly announced that “It’s now time to open Texas 100 percent,” canceling that huge state’s masking requirement and allowing businesses to operate at full capacity.
Covid-19: The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials
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A single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine can protect older people, a study shows. California reaches a deal that encourages schools to reopen.
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A hot dog vendor in Los Angeles reopened on Monday after being closed for two months. The restaurant has been in business since 1939.Credit.Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Tens of thousands of students walked into classrooms in Chicago public schools on Monday for the first time in nearly a year. Restaurants in Massachusetts were allowed to operate without capacity limits, and venues like roller skating rinks and movie theaters in most of the state opened with fewer restrictions. And South Carolina erased its limits on large gatherings.
Covid-19: The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials
Last Updated
March 26, 2021, 7:58 a.m. ETMarch 26, 2021, 7:58 a.m. ET
A single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine can protect older people, a study shows. California reaches a deal that encourages schools to reopen.
Here’s what you need to know:
A hot dog vendor in Los Angeles reopened on Monday after being closed for two months. The restaurant has been in business since 1939.Credit.Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Tens of thousands of students walked into classrooms in Chicago public schools on Monday for the first time in nearly a year. Restaurants in Massachusetts were allowed to operate without capacity limits, and venues like roller skating rinks and movie theaters in most of the state opened with fewer restrictions. And South Carolina erased its limits on large gatherings.
As coronavirus cases fall, states are rescinding mask mandates and reopening businesses and schools, prompting people to emerge after months of isolation despite uncertainty about the pandemic’s future.