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ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil — Gilson Rambelli motored out into the dark waters, thinking of the crime that had haunted him for years. The evidence of it was down there,
CDC director urges parents to vaccinate children Jennifer Hassan, Paul Schemm, Marisa Iati, Reis Thebault How the push to immunize children is clashing with vaccine skepticism Replay Video UP NEXT Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky on Tuesday urged parents to vaccinate their children now that federal officials have authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech shots for people as young as 12. In testimony before a Senate committee, Walensky encouraged children to ask for the vaccine if their parents are hesitant. Experts have said vaccinating children...
The struggle underscores a broader failure to secure enough vaccines to fight a disease that has killed more than 416,000 people.
. ANGRA DOS REIS, Brazil — After a lifetime of feeling invisible, the family was told they'd suddenly become one of Brazil's top priorities. As the country began rolling out coronavirus vaccines early this year, officials said communities like theirs, founded by Africans who escaped slavery, would be among the first to receive shots. But then weeks passed, the vaccines never came and one day late last month, the phone rang. The voice was faint, but the words were clear: "He's dead." "For the love of God," Maria Lucia de Morais responded. "How could this have happened?" Delays in the va...