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Officials in New York City released new data by ZIP codes on Tuesday that they said underscored troubling disparities in the city’s vaccination effort, with the share of residents who are fully vaccinated in some wealthier Upper West and East Side ZIP codes, which have high proportions of white residents, …

Public health officials are using Eventbrite’s online ticketing platform to schedule shots. But appointments are still hard to find, and not everyone knows how to use the website. In the early stages of a global push to distribute the coronavirus vaccine to those who need it most — a process …

As cases surge and hospital beds fill up, federal officials said a vaccine could be distributed to as many as 24 million people by mid-January. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s top health officials outlined an ambitious timetable on Sunday for distributing the first coronavirus vaccinations to as many as 24 …

Here’s what you need to know: Hahn says F.D.A. decisions are based on science and the agency would ‘not permit any pressure from anyone to change that.’ Johnson & Johnson begins the final stage of clinical trials for its vaccine, sparking optimism. The Metropolitan Opera cancels its entire 2020-21 season. …

As the nation’s coronavirus death toll neared 200,000, top administration health officials on Sunday delicately sidestepped President Trump’s ambitious declaration last week that a coronavirus vaccine would be available for every American by April. Instead, Adm. Brett P. Giroir, who heads up national testing efforts, and Alex M. Azar II, …

Here’s what you need to know: Health officials sidestep questions about Trump’s timeline for ‘enough vaccines for every American by April.’ Representative Jahana Hayes of Connecticut is the latest member of Congress to test positive. Indoor dining in Maryland will rise to 75 percent of capacity Monday. The U.S. military …

A heavily criticized recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by C.D.C. scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections, according to several people familiar with the matter as well as …

This briefing has ended. Read live coronavirus updates here. Here’s what you need to know: Thousands attend a Trump rally indoors as others ask why he played down the virus threat. Scientists are alarmed by companies’ secrecy around vaccine clinical trials. A refugee camp in Greece on virus lockdown was …

Here’s what you need to know: Memorial Day weekend gatherings caused case spikes. The U.S. caseload is nearly double ahead of Labor Day. Russian scientists report modest amount of antibodies in volunteers given the vaccine for the virus. Trump’s vaccine chief sees a ‘very, very low chance’ of a vaccine …