COVID-19 vaccine

Mass. early educators and school staff will be eligible for getting the coronavirus vaccine, Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday.

Teachers, school staff and child care providers should receive at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine by the end of March, according to the Biden administration.

12,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine arrived at NRG Park in Houston, according to Harris County Public Health.

All Vermont teachers will be eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine starting next week.

A letter written by experts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MD Anderson Cancer Center advises women to schedule their annual mammograms either before or at least six weeks after getting vaccinated, due to swelling caused by the vaccine that may be mistake as a sign for cancer.

People 55 and over and educators can now start making appointments to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut. Eligible educators and childcare providers include pre-K through grade 12 teachers, paraprofessionals, custodial staff, food service providers, school bus drivers and childcare providers as well as in-school administrative staff. This does not include individuals who are not required to work on-site in…

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine began shipping out on Monday morning after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization on Saturday.

Governor Ned Lamont said he expects Connecticut will receive 30,000 Johnson & Johnson one-dose COVID-19 vaccines by Tuesday, March 2. The announcement comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the emergency use of the vaccine on Saturday. The Johnson & Johnson shot is now the third with emergency authorization to combat COVID-19 in the U.S. The 30,000…

An FDA advisory committee will meet Friday to discuss the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccine.

While the Biden administration is making progress on the vaccine front, it’s also prodding Congress to deliver a new stimulus package to help address the nation’s continuing economic woes.

Do the COVID-19 vaccines reduce the spread of the coronavirus or just hospitalizations? Will you need to get it every year? And can you get by with just one dose? These are just a few of the lingering questions we’ve heard as COVID-19 vaccines roll out across the country. LX News spoke to Dr. Richard Novak, chief of infectious diseases...

About 300 people are expected to get their vaccine at the new site in Dartmouth on Wednesday.

Getting COVID-19 vaccines into the arms of all Americans is hard enough. But vaccinating homeless communities poses additional challenges that are even trickier to overcome. They include getting homeless people to mass vaccination sites or bringing the vaccines to the streets, as well as overcoming their mistrust of health officials. Ben Oreskes, a reporter with the Los Angeles Times, joined...

Dr. Richard Nettles of Johnson & Johnson told a House subcommittee on Tuesday that the company will have 20 million doses of their vaccine available by the end of March.

Authorities in Houston are opening a federally funded COVID-19 vaccination center that will serve an estimated 126,000 people over the next three weeks

Pfizer and Moderna have pledged to up production of COVID-19 vaccine as states struggle to meet demand.

Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont has announced the next group of people who will be eligible for the coronavirus vaccine, which will include teachers, school staff and child care providers. Currently, those age 65 and older are eligible for the vaccine as part of Phase 1B. Starting in March, those who work as preK-12 school staff and teachers, and professional child…

The United States has reached the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to NBC News.

Israel has started lifting its coronavirus restrictions and reopening its economy after a nearly two-month long lockdown. Gyms, pools and restaurants will be open for people who have received two doses of the coronavirus vaccine.

One month into Joe Biden’s presidency, the government is on a glide path to reach his initial goal of administering 100 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days in office.