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Noses — and maybe smiles — may soon make an appearance in some classrooms, now that several states plan to end mask mandates.

Gov. Philip Murphy is expected to allow school districts to permit students and teachers to go without masks.

At the urging of the federal government, Pfizer and its partner BioNTech applied last week for authorization for two doses of its Covid vaccine to children aged 4 and younger.

[Editor’s Note (01/14/22): In a 6-3 ruling, on January 14, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the Sixth’s Circuit’s ruling described below, and thereby re-imposed an injunction...

The nature of this variant, combined with widespread vaccine use, may make it seem less severe in some ways than earlier ones. It doesn’t always feel that like that here.

Students in the third-largest U.S. school district will go back to classes on Wednesday.

The added demand for testing and the higher prevalence of breakthrough cases have created an “opportune moment” to exploit.

With visual cues and complex steps, at-home coronavirus tests are often inaccessible to blind people. But some low- and high-tech workarounds could help.

Xi’an, a city of 13 million people, has been on lockdown since Dec. 22, the longest in the country since the early days of the outbreak in Wuhan.

Two days after winter break, union members were preparing to vote on whether they would refuse to report to school buildings.