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As schools prepare to have more students in-person in the fall, health experts say strategic testing will continue to play a major role.

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With lessons learned from last summer, camps are ready to welcome kids — and parents are ready to send them.

A year of lockdown has summer camp waitlists overflowing Elizabeth Chuck © Provided by NBC News This year, Camp Augusta, an overnight camp in Nevada City, California, has more than 500 campers on its waitlist — the longest the list has been in two decades. Parents who a couple months ago were inquiring about how often equipment will be sanitized now are more interested in how Augusta plans to make camp feel as normal as possible, the director, Randy Grayson, said. And campers have made clear what they are hoping for: a summer free from worries about the coronavirus pandemi...

Columbus City Schools is launching COVID vaccination clinics for all students 16 and older beginning Monday. There are 8,000 students age 16 and above in the district, and there will be enough Pfizer doses to innoculate 6,000, District Health, Family and Community Services director Dr. Kate King says vaccinating young people is part of the overall pandemic battle. "Certainly we know about vaccine hesitancy. We also know that vaccines save lives, not only of the person getting the vaccine, but they are also really the only way to break the chain of transmission. This is how we're going to a...