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The White House on Thursday outlined the early stages of its plan for making coronavirus vaccines available this month to roughly 18 million children younger than 5, should the doses be cleared by federal regulators for the last group of Americans yet to be eligible.
When the coronavirus was in retreat across the United States in late February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued recommendations that shifted toward using the number of people hospitalized with the virus to determine the need for pandemic safety measures. That strategy will be put to the test in the next few weeks because hospitalizations are rising again nationally.
A team from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette created the Voter Guide to provide residents of the state with the information they need to participate in the primary election.