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There were 51,200 new coronavirus cases in the United States on Sunday -- the fewest since the middle of October, according to updated data from Johns Hopkins University.

New Jersey reported another 3,149 new positive PCR tests Friday as well as another 1,007 antigen tests, for a cumulative total of all positives since the

Friday, February 26, 2021 This Week’s Dose Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Xavier Becerra testified in front of two Senate Committees while the House continued to advance the coronavirus (COVID-19) relief package.  Congress House Democrats are Moving COVID-19 Relief Legislation. On Monday, the House Budget Committee met to compile the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, that Democrats are preparing to pass through reco...

By Cherranda Smith Feb 26, 2021 As the world navigates the global distribution of the vaccine against the coronavirus, there are teams of scientists and professionals working behind the scenes to ensure equity in protection.  For Black Americans, the coronavirus pandemic has had an undue burden on our community. Data shows that Black people in the United States are three more times as likely to contract the coronavirus and suffer complications after becoming infected.  Our community has been...

Signs sit near the White House following a 2018 March for Our Lives rally. Three years later, the activist group, founded by survivors of the deadly shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, is consulting with the Biden administration on violence prevention policies. Zach Gibson / Getty Images Originally published on February 25, 2021 9:10 am The day before President Bidens allies on Capitol Hill were set to roll out his sweeping immigration overhaul, a group of activis...

Read time: 12 mins By Julie Dermansky • Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 14:10 Mary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID-19 earlier this year. So she got vaccinated as soon as she could. “Either the vaccine i...

Laguna Beach Local News By Jean Hastings Ardell At the annual Año Nuevo Retreat my husband and I attend in Pacific Grove our group likes to talk about the books we’ve recently read, the issues of the day, and offer predictions for the upcoming year. At December’s gathering on Zoom we considered this question: Would the Black Lives Matter movement, and with it the dialogue about systemic racism, continue its momentum or would it prove to be a blip on the 2020 calendar? The majority agreed t...

The city will operate a clinic in Southeast Newport News in partnership with Riverside Health System and local churches to vaccinate people 65 and older.

The City Council Tuesday discussed the challenges of maintaining equity in the citys COVID-19 vaccination efforts.

As East Side COVID-19 vaccination site nears opening, vaccine demographic gaps persist According to New Yorks vaccine tracker, the largest demographic gap in Western New York is among African Americans who are eligible to receive the vaccine. Author: Jeff Preval Updated: 7:06 PM EST February 24, 2021 According to New York State’s vaccine tracker, nearly 9 percent of African Americans in Western New York are eligible to receive the vaccine, but only 3.7 percent ...