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WOONSOCKET, Rhode Island CVS Health is now accepting walk-in customers for COVID-19 vaccinations at all 8,300 of its stores that are doling out shots.
The drugstore chain started accepting customers with no appointments this week. It also is offering same-day day appointments, which Walgreens started on Wednesday. Walgreens is also accepting walk-ins and expects to offer vaccines at all 9,200 of its U.S. stores by this weekend.
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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 17, 2021, file photo, charter buses arrive at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, escorted by Federal Protective Service Police. Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are âcompletely unacceptableâ if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday, May 14, 2021. It s unclear how many children were kept on buses overnight at the convention center. (Lola Gomez/The Dallas Morning News via AP, File) May 14, 2021 - 3:59 PM
Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are âcompletely unacceptableâ if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday.
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Reports of unaccompanied migrant children being forced to stay overnight in parked buses at the Dallas convention center are “completely unacceptable” if true, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday.
Dr. Amy Cohen, a psychiatrist and executive director of the advocacy group Every Last One, said a 15-year-old Honduran boy she is working with was held on a bus from Saturday to Wednesday, using the bus bathroom during that time and unable to move about freely or communicate with family. The boy encountered at least three other children who were held as long in the parking lot of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, said Cohen, who also has been in contact with another child who was confined earlier to a bus for an extended period.
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In key step back to normal.
14 May 2021
Image: Roger Kisby/Bloomberg
President Joe Biden took his biggest step yet toward declaring victory over the coronavirus pandemic as public health officials said fully vaccinated Americans can ditch their masks in most settings, even indoors or in large groups.
âToday is a great day for America in our long battle with coronavirus,â Biden said in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday, calling the US vaccination program an âhistorical logistical achievement.â
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