The on-again, off-again ban to prevent mandating masks for Florida school students is back.
COVID-19
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Maine reports 14 outbreaks in schools along with 506 new cases of COVID-19
Hundreds of unvaccinated students who have come into close contact with infected students are now at home in quarantine.
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Biden issues sweeping new vaccine mandates affecting 100 million Americans
Telling the unvaccinated ‘your refusal has cost all of us,’ the president lays out plans to mandate vaccines for federal workers, require vaccinations or weekly tests for employees at companies with 100 or more workers, and lay the groundwork for booster shots.
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Biden requiring federal workers to get COVID vaccine
The step comes ahead of the president’s speech Thursday afternoon outlining a six-pronged plan to address the latest rise in coronavirus cases.
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Maine hospitals treating record number of ICU patients as new COVID-19 cases climb
More than 90% of patients in intensive care are unvaccinated, say state officials, who have added staffing to handle a backlog of positive tests.
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Jim Jordan calls vaccine mandates un-American. George Washington thought otherwise.
George Washington, the commander in chief of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, required his troops to be immunized after a smallpox outbreak devastated the nation.
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U.S. reaches 75% of adults with at least 1 vaccine dose
The U.S. hit 70% of adults with at least one dose in early August, four weeks after Biden’s July 4 target for the achievement.
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Women said COVID vaccine affected their periods. Now more than $1.6 million will go to research it.
The five NIH-funded studies will likely incorporate between 400,000 and 500,000 participants, including adolescents and transgender and nonbinary people.
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COVID-19 boosters are coming but who will get them – and when?
There’s still important science to be worked out about who really needs them and when.
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Study of J&J vaccine shows COVID infections cut in half among health workers
The vast majority of the breakthrough infections were mild.