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News Articles: Series: The Coronavirus Crisis

Gearing up for fall, health officials are recommending a new round of booster shots.

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  • Your Health

Omicron boosters: Do I need one, and if so, when?

Updated COVID boosters are now available for anyone age 12 or older. The CDC is urging anyone who is eligible to sign up but some vaccine experts say some people might want to wait.

September 05, 2022
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  • Allison Aubrey
The Biden administration plans to offer updated booster shots in the fall.

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  • Health

Summer boosters for people under 50 shelved in favor of updated boosters in the fall

The Biden administration is scrapping plans to offer COVID boosters for people under 50 this summer. Instead they will push for an earlier release of the next generation boosters in the fall.

July 28, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
President Biden departs Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., after attending a Mass on Sunday, July 17, 2022.

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  • Politics

Biden tests positive for COVID, and shows mild symptoms, White House says

The president "will isolate at the White House and will continue to carry out all of his duties fully during that time," a White House statement said.

July 21, 2022
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By:
  • Scott Detrow
A selfie of Beth Kenny (foreground), their wife Adina (middle), and their child Vyla sitting in their backyard in Alameda, Calif. Since the lifting of COVID safety measures, Kenny and their family have had to pull back from indoor activities, and they struggle to explain why to Vyla.

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  • On Disabilities

Many try to return to normal from COVID, but disabled people face a different reality

With COVID safety protocols rescinding around the country, many are returning to a sense of pre-pandemic normalcy. But disabled and immunocompromised people can't do so, and are being left behind.

July 14, 2022
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By:
  • Shruti Rajkumar
A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., last November. Vaccines will soon be available for children as young as 6 months old.

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  • Health

CDC clears the way for vaccinations for children 6 months to 5 years old

CDC advisers are recommending the use of two separate COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, paving the way for vaccine rollout as early as next week.

June 19, 2022
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By:
  • Rhitu Chatterjee
A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va.,  in November 2021. A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that the agency expand authorization of COVID-19 vaccines to children as young as 6-months-old.

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  • Health

Advisers to the FDA back COVID vaccines for the youngest children

A committee of experts voted unanimously to recommend that the Food and Drug Administration authorize COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech for children as young as 6-months-old.

June 15, 2022
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  • Scott Hensley
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill.

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  • Health

Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID-19, but is experiencing mild symptoms

Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tested positive on a rapid antigen test.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on Jan. 11, 2022 on Capitol Hill.

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  • Health

Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID-19, but is experiencing mild symptoms

Fauci, the chief medical advisor to President Joe Biden and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, tested positive on a rapid antigen test.

June 15, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz

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  • Obituaries

Songs of Remembrance

At least 1 million people have died in the U.S. from COVID-19. NPR's Songs of Remembrance project shares some of their stories and the music they loved.

May 18, 2022
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  • Wynne Davis,
  • Jacob Ganz,
  • and 8 more
The federal government is sending out a third round of free rapid antigen COVID-19 tests through the U.S. Postal Service.

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  • Health

The federal government is offering another round of free COVID tests

Households in the U.S. will receive eight test kits via the U.S. Postal Service. The release comes as cases have risen over 60% in the U.S. over the past two weeks.

May 17, 2022
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Biden, cites the U.S. vaccination program and previous widespread transmission of the coronavirus as reasons why the U.S. is not now under pandemic conditions. Here, travelers wait at Miami International Airport last week after mask requirements were lifted.

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  • National

Here's why Dr. Fauci says the U.S. is 'out of the pandemic phase'

Vaccinations and residual immunity are among the reasons, President Biden's chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, said Tuesday, as the number of deaths drop and hospitalizations rise only slightly.

April 28, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris walk to the Oval Office after an event in the Rose Garden on April 11, 2022.

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  • Politics

Vice President Harris has tested positive for COVID-19

Vice President Harris has tested positive for COVID-19 and has exhibited no symptoms, the White House announced on Tuesday. She's not considered a close contact to President Biden or the first lady.

April 26, 2022
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  • Scott Detrow
People arrive at a COVID-19 testing station in Houston, Texas, on Jan. 7. Texans were rushing to get tested as the state experienced an unprecedented spike in infections from the omicron variant.

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  • Health

Most Americans have been infected with the COVID-19 virus, the CDC reports

So many people caught the omicron variant over the winter that almost 60% of everyone in the U.S. — including most children — now have antibodies to the virus in their blood, the CDC said Tuesday.

April 26, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Neel
A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past a health campaign poster in the Westminster underground train station, in London.

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  • Health

COVID remains a public health emergency for now, the WHO and Biden administration say

The WHO and the Biden administration extended the public health emergency for COVID-19, saying the virus is still considered a serious health threat.

April 14, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Signs with the message 'Now Hiring' are displayed in front of restaurants in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on March 19.

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  • Economy

Employers continue hiring spree even as war in Ukraine ratchets up economic fears

U.S. employers added 431,000 jobs in March, as the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% from 3.8% in February. The tight job market is putting upward pressure on both wages and prices.

April 01, 2022
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  • Scott Horsley
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