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The families with children, ages 3-15, are from the Allied Foundation, a not-for-profit organization.

Like medical facilities across the state and nation, Guernsey Health System is working to meet the federal governments vaccine mandate.

These are the top 100 largest paid-in-full PPP loans provided to small businesses in 2020 in Wheaton, according to the US Small Business Administration.

Patrick, a 9-year-old in Houston, petted a hospital therapy dog named Bailey while a nurse administered a shot that made him one of the first American elementary-schoolers to get vaccinated against the coronavirus.

28 million children are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and many pediatricians across our area are already giving out the shots.

Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, which means more time for trick-or-treating, but health experts insist now is not the time to pretend COVID-19 is gone.

Board of Ed officials also announced that come the fall, there will be no more school health checks or remote instruction and plexiglass barriers will be removed from the desks.

As demand for COVID vaccines wanes, doctors ability to convince reluctant patient to get shots may prove key to ending the pandemic.

For months, doctors worked from the sidelines as New Yorks COVID-19 vaccine rollout focused heavily on pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites. Now theyre playing a key role in convincing their patients — many of whom are hesitant — to step up and get the shot. Among those doctors is Dr. Sandra Kesh, a Westchester County infectious-disease specialist who says shes convinced scores of patients to get the vaccine recently. As authorities shipped more doses directly to Kesh and other doctors, ...

Hudson Valley clinics administer COVID-19 vaccines to kids age 12 and up News 12 Staff Updated on:May 14, 2021, 1:48pm EDT Hudson Valley doctor’s offices are vaccinating adolescents ages 12 to 15 against COVID-19 following the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panels recommendation. This means eligibility for the vaccine expands to about 87% of the U.S. population, including about 17 million children that can get protected from the virus at a time when 1 of every 5 newly reported ca...