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Ahead of the CDC’s announcement that all Americans will be advised to wear masks indoors regardless of vaccination status, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said on Tuesday that the move is not as a result of ineffective vaccinations but as a precaution against the hyper-transmissible delta variant. “The reality is that we’re dealing with a much different strain...

Moderna said Monday that it is “actively discussing a proposal with the FDA” to expand its coronavirus vaccine trial to include children ages 5 to 11. The company hopes to expand its trial to include children in this age group by the end of the year.

The nation’s leading infectious disease expert said recommending that vaccinated people wear masks is “under active consideration” by the government’s leading public health officials.

A debate is brewing between former gold medalist Maya DiRado and some American swimmers over U.S. medal threat Michael Andrew’s decision not to be vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus on the eve of competition at the Tokyo Olympics

A new poll shows that most Americans who haven’t been vaccinated against COVID-19 say they are unlikely to get the shots.

About 83% of Team USA Olympians have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, leaving approximately 100 U.S. athletes who remain unvaccinated.

Republican lawmakers are under increasing pressure to persuade vaccine skeptics to roll up their sleeves and take the shots as a new, more contagious COVID-19 variant sends caseloads soaring.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is imploring unvaccinated Americans to take the COVID-19 shot

The COVID-19 pandemic is slamming Cuba like never before, even as the country races to roll out its homegrown vaccines — the only locally developed shots widely used in Latin America

A federal judge is allowing Indiana University to continue with its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all students and employees.

Boston University announced Monday it will require faculty and staff — in addition to students — to be vaccinated for COVID-19 before returning to campus this fall. In an email to staff, school president Robert A. Brown said the move comes after months of attempts to achieve “community-wide vaccination” at the school. The school earlier announced all student are required…

Two weeks after celebrating America’s near “independence” from the coronavirus, President Joe Biden is confronting the worrying reality of rising cases and deaths

The President said sources of COVID disinformation like Facebook are “killing people” as the virus continues to spread more between unvaccinated people.

As the “hypertransmissable” Delta variant surges in communities across the U.S., CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky issued a stark warning to those who remain unvaccinated against the coronavirus, saying, “Our biggest concern is that we’re going to see preventable cases, hospitalizations and sadly, deaths among the unvaccinated.”

The highly contagious delta variant is quickly spreading across the country, making up more than half of new COVID-19 cases.

New COVID-19 cases per day in the U.S. have doubled over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.

The number of Maine residents who are age 70 or older and haven’t had their final dose of coronavirus vaccine has fallen below 20,000. Maine has one of the oldest median ages in the country at about 45. The state, like most, prioritized getting coronavirus vaccines to older residents when they first became available. About 90% of Mainers age 70…

The rare nerve disorder has been reported in 100 out of the nearly 13 million Americans who have received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine

Provincetown has seen a “handful” of new coronavirus cases in the past few days, Town Manager Alex Morse said on Facebook Monday.

The CDC confirmed Monday that about 100 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare neurological disorder, were found in people who had received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.