“If I accept the vaccine,” one cancer patient says, “it will be with a strong feeling of guilt that at best I will be prolonging my life for a few months or years.” Do the vaccines against the coronavirus offer cancer patients the same hope that they hold out to …
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COVID-19 vaccine rollout is one of the main topics of early-2021, with a few countries – Israel, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United Kingdom (UK) in particular — surging ahead of everybody else in vaccination rates. Image Credit: Our World in Data But the real winners aren’t those who race …
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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, …
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In the rush to immunize people against Covid, federal and state health officials have overlooked the role of doctors, physicians say. Primary care doctors have grown increasingly frustrated with their exclusion from the nation’s vaccine rollout, unable to find reliable supplies for even their eldest patients and lacking basic information …
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The bad news, coming nearly a week after a million doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived in South Africa, was a big setback for the country. South Africa halted use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford coronavirus vaccine on Sunday after evidence emerged that the vaccine did not protect clinical trial volunteers from …
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Listen to This Article To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. Faced with the daunting task of parceling out a limited supply of coronavirus vaccines, Trump administration officials came up with a seemingly simple formula last year to streamline …
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You finally got your vaccine, and you’re excited to share the proof. Here’s why that may not be a good idea, and what you can do instead. So you finally got a Covid-19 vaccine. Relieved, you take a photograph of your vaccination card, showing your name and birth date and …
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In the near future, travel may require digital documentation showing that passengers have been vaccinated or tested for the coronavirus. Answers to your questions. Among governments and those in the travel industry, a new term has entered the vocabulary: vaccine passport. One of President Biden’s executive orders aimed at curbing …
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Those with compromised immune systems are often advised to get the shots under medical supervision, but their cancer centers can’t always provide them. A doctor in Arizona says her cancer patients are so desperate to get vaccinated against Covid-19 that they plan to volunteer at a stadium vaccination site. A …
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