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View Comments Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated the percentage of people under the age of 20 who have been vaccinated in Tennessee. This story has been updated to reflect the correct data.  As the new school year begins, health workers are in a race against time to increase vaccination numbers among eligible teenagers.  While vaccination rates have increased in some areas for the general population, the rate of COVID-19 vaccinations among young people has fallen far behind.  Health departments across the South, which are already facing acute concerns around va...

With Indiana children headed back to school, more than 200 law enforcement agencies are adding patrols to crack down on school bus stop-arm violations ...

Share this - copied Dr. Mark Kline, physician-in-chief at Children's Hospital New Orleans, tells Lawrence O'Donnell that more children than ever in the pandemic are being hospitalized for Covid-19 in his hospital: "The Delta variant is a game changer and it seems to have a propensity for causing severe disease in children and adolescents." Aug. 4, 2021 ReadMore

  VANCOUVER -- While her counterpart in Ontario unveiled a cautious plan to get students back in the classroom, B.C.’s top doctor is sticking with a plan announced before the last school year had even ended – and well before the Delta variant began setting back reopening plans across the globe.  CTV News asked Dr. Bonnie Henry whether the steady growth in cases and increase of the prevalence of the ultra-contagious Delta variant to more than 60 per cent of cases in British Columbia, and the fact students under 12 are still not eligible for vaccines, had prompted her to consider chang...

Biden administration promotes fully opening schools amid surge of Delta variant The United States is in the midst of a massive surge of COVID-19 infections due to the spread of the highly infectious and virulent Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. In the past month alone, the seven-day moving average of daily new cases has skyrocketed by over 500 percent to exceed 91,000 as of Monday. Amid this deepening surge of the pandemic, the Biden administration released a document Monday making clear that the drive to fully reopen schools over the coming weeks will continue apace. This is despite the fact tha...