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Health care giant Kaiser Permanente has put more than 2,200 employees nationwide on unpaid leave for choosing not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

The remote Ugandan district of Gulu is currently a COVID-19 hot spot in the East African country

Rural Americans are dying of Covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

YouTube announced a total ban Wednesday on vaccine misinformation and the termination of the accounts of several prominent anti-vaccine influencers, including Joseph Mercola and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., citing “the need to remove egregious harmful content.”

A CDC panel of advisers voted to recommend a booster shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to people over 65 and high risk Americans, backing a similar decision by the FDA.

Johnson & Johnson released data showing that a booster dose to its one-shot coronavirus vaccine provides a strong immune response

With a federal advisory committee expected to consider whether to approve third doses of the Pfizer mRNA vaccine this Friday, Dr. Kirsten Lyke hopes her research will be part of their broader booster conversation. The University of Maryland School of Medicine infectious disease specialist has spent months studying the mixing and matching of COVID-19 vaccines among volunteers across the country…

The labor movement is torn over vaccine requirements — much like the country as a whole — wanting to both support its political ally in Biden and protect its members against infection but also not wanting to trample their workers’ rights.

Japan’s government says more than 50% of the population has been fully vaccinated

President Joe Biden’s administration is gearing up for another major clash between federal and state rule over its sweeping new vaccine requirements that have Republican governors threatening lawsuits

Companies with more than 100 people will have to either require vaccines for employees or provide weekly tests.

CyanVac, a Georgia-based pharmaceutical company, is developing a COVID-19 vaccine that is delivered nasally and uses a live virus to create immunity.

A new study out of RAND and Indiana University found that 140,000 coronavirus deaths were prevented in the U.S. as a result of the early vaccination campaign. In addition to the prevention of thousands of deaths, researchers also estimate the economic impact of the vaccine program to be between $625 billion and $1.4 trillion.

“These booster shots are free,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday. “It will be easy. Just show your vaccination card, and you’ll get a booster. No other I.D., no insurance, no state residency requirement.”

In a public service announcement released Wednesday, Pope Francis encouraged people to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, calling it an “act of love” to protect those most vulnerable during the pandemic.

U.S. health officials are expected to announce that they recommend booster shots of the COVID-19 vaccine eight months after receiving the second dose, according to sources.

D.C. is not only ramping up efforts to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but the city is also emphasizing testing as cases continue to rise. David Gaston, an ambassador for Get The Shot, spends his days knocking on doors in his neighborhood of Northeast D.C. “Hundreds of doors so far, if not in the thousands, when I...

D.C. is not only ramping up efforts to encourage people to get the COVID-19 vaccine, but the city is also emphasizing COVID-19 testing as
cases continue to rise. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

In one video, a man screamed at an individual wearing a mask as they walked to their car, saying, “We know who you are.” The same man later said, “You’ll never be allowed in public again.”

A new study out of the University of California – Irvine reveals that during childbirth, people with COVID-19 had increased need for intubation and ventilation, higher ICU admission rates and a higher mortality rate.