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Fauci Urges Americans to Take 1st Available COVID Vaccine, Forget Shopping Around On 2/28/21 at 10:23 AM EST Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's top expert on infectious diseases, appeared on the Sunday TV news programs, including CNN, ABC and NBC, with one clear message: take whichever of the three COVID-19 vaccines becomes available first. His remarks come as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization to Johnson & Johnson's single-dose coronavirus vaccine Saturday, the first one-shot vaccination of its kind. With three separate COVID-19 vaccines now avai...

What experts can say is that travel will be safer for some people, and in some places, sooner rather than later. They also agree that "normal" is a long way away.

U.S. Surpasses 500,000 COVID Deaths Intelligencer 2/22/2021 Matt Stieb © Bloomberg via Getty Images Health-care workers prone a patient in an ICU unit in California in February. Bloomberg via Getty Images On Sunday, roughly one year since the first American died from COVID-19, the United States surpassed 500,000 coronavirus deaths, according to a tally from NBC News. The devastating half-a-million mark comes at a complicated time during the pandemic. The nation has lost 100,000 lives to the virus since January 19, and has lost almost 2,000 lives per day over the past week...

As of Wednesday, at least 1,737 COVID-19 vaccines have gone to waste in the state from the time the first vaccines arrived in December, according to the Maryland Department of Health.

Almost a month after U.S. vaccination campaigns ramped up to give COVID-19 shots to more than a million people a day, their second doses are coming due, straining state rollouts