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The CDC's advisory committee voted on Sunday to recommend the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for persons 18 years of age and older in the U.S.

Coronavirus in one state (155) In the words of John Lennon, war is over (if you want it) — the war in this case being the war on COVID-19. The public health emergency is over and yet governors such as Minnesota’s egregious Tim Walz continue to control the “dials” of our lives, as the authorities here refer to them. They have us fighting on like Japanese soldiers who haven’t heard that the Emperor surrendered. Kevin Roche promulgated 11 theses regarding the epidemic here last week. The...

WBGZ Radio 2/4/2021 | By Cole Lauterbach - Illinois Radio Network Echoing the governor, Illinois’ top doctor told a U.S. House of Representatives committee that the state’s COVID-19 response was hurt by dysfunction at the federal level.  In a hearing aimed at finding ways to boost the nation’s vaccination numbers, the House Energy and Commerce Committee spoke to medical officials from several states.  Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike attended, saying in her...

PEORIA, Ill. -- While Tier 1B COVID-19 vaccinations include frontline essential workers and individuals 65 yea...

Merrill Gay helped his elderly mother, sequestered alone at home, make an appointment last week to get a coronavirus vaccination. Meanwhile, the thousands of child care workers who are members of the coalition he leads, the Early Childhood Alliance, have been told they will have to wait more than a month for their turn to make an appointment. “A person living by themselves isn’t really high risk,” said Gay. “It’s really easy to slip into the, ‘Oh yeah, old folks are more likely to d...

Is CT vaccine rollout leaving behind Black and Latino residents? By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Kasturi Pananjady and Jenna Carlesso, CTMirror.org © Provided by Connecticut Post Frank Tate, a staff member and former client of The Open Hearth men’s shelter, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine from a Mobile Vaccination Clinic run by Hartford HealthCare in Hartford, Connecticut on January 22, 2021. Merrill Gay helped his elderly mother, sequestered alone at home, make an ...

TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. Health care workers administering covid vaccines will rely mostly on the honor system to verify that new patients outside of their hospital systems are eligible to get the shot. Pennsylvania officials have expanded eligibility of those who can move to the front of the vaccination line. The top priority group, called 1A, now includes people older than 65 and people over 16 who ha...

Michael Barone Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the COVID-19 pandemic starting last February and to the shocking video from Minneapolis police officers released over Memorial Day weekend. The response to COVID was unprecedented and disproportionate to the threat. Initially, the pandemic evoked memories of Ebola and SARS, diseases not readily contagious but fatal for roughly ...

COVID-19 vaccinations begin in Otter Tail County Otter Tail County Public Health has received its initial doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and is working quickly to get it out into the community. Written By: News Staff | × Otter Tail County Public Health has received its initial doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine and is working quickly to get it out into the community. (Submitted Photo) Otter Tail County Public Health has received its initial doses of the Moderna COVID-1...

Did America go crazy in 2020? I suspect observers years hence will think so because of the responses, of both elite officials and ordinary Americans, to the...