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Snubbing Kennedy, states announce plans to coordinate on vaccines

The alliance is intended to provide residents with scientific data about vaccine safety and efficacy, and to issue guidance on vaccines for respiratory illnesses.

What to know about the COVID-19 variant that may cause ‘razor blade’ sore throats

There’s nothing so far to suggest that the disease associated with the new variant is more severe compared to other variants.

CDC now says healthy kids and pregnant women ‘may’ still get Covid shots

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said days ago that the COVID vaccine would no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. The CDC's website sends a more nuanced message.

Will you be able to get a COVID-19 shot? Here’s what we know so far.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that COVID-19 shots are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.

Five Years Later

Six things we got wrong about COVID-19, from washing groceries to herd immunity

As knowledge about the virus grew, experts revised their guidance on seemingly everything about the illness.

More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID-19. Why is there no national day to remember them?

Five years after the virus emerged, Americans have not coalesced around an understanding of how COVID shaped us and what we've lost.

COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in Chinese lab

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19.

Tracker: See the latest levels of coronavirus in Boston-area waste water

How much COVID-19 is circulating in the community? See the latest waste water numbers.

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