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News Articles: Series: The Coronavirus Crisis

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers acknowledged Tuesday that he had misled some people about his vaccination status, but added, "I stand behind the things that I said."

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  • Sports

NFL fines Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers for violating COVID protocols

With Rodgers sidelined by the diagnosis and league protocols on Sunday, the Packers lost 13-7 to the Kansas City Chiefs. He remains at home as part of a league-imposed 10-day quarantine.

November 10, 2021
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By:
  • Dave Mistich
Elsa Estrada, 6, smiles at her mother before receiving the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif.

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  • Health

Nearly 1 million kids ages 5-11 will have their first COVID shots by the end of today

About 3% of children in the age group authorized last week to get a low-dose vaccine will have their first shots by Wednesday, according to the White House.

November 10, 2021
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By:
  • Tamara Keith
Safeway pharmacist Shahrzad Khoobyari administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot to Chen Knifsend at a vaccination clinic in San Rafael, Calif., in October. The companies are seeking regulatory authorization to expand boosters to everyone 18 and older.

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  • Health

Pfizer and BioNTech ask FDA to authorize COVID vaccine booster for people 18+

The companies say a study of more than 10,000 volunteers showed a vaccine efficacy of 95% or greater for people receiving the booster.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Joe Palca
Writer Anne Helen Petersen says that on the other side of the pandemic, there's a chance work will rotate more around people's lives instead of the other way around.

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  • Author Interviews

As companies look to bring remote workers back to the office, a writer asks: Why?

Anne Helen Petersen is the co-author of a new book on the future of remote work. She says companies need to clearly know what goal they are pursuing when asking remote workers to come back in person.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Martin,
  • Lisa Weiner,
  • and 2 more
People in Singapore mask up to take a mass rapid transit train on Friday. Singapore has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world. As of Sunday, 85% of its population was fully vaccinated.

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  • Asia

Singapore will stop covering the medical bills of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients

Singapore's government will stop covering the cost of COVID-19 treatment for those who are "unvaccinated by choice" next month, citing the strain they are placing on its health care system.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Left to right: Filipino American health care workers Karen Cantor, Karen Shoker, and John Paul Atienza were among many who cared for COVID patients in the early days of the pandemic.

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  • Health

Filipino American health workers reflect on trauma and healing on COVID's frontlines

They have shouldered an outsize share of COVID-19's burden, statistics show. Many lost family members; others got sick themselves, recovered and carried on. Meet the caregivers.

November 09, 2021
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By:
  • Rosem Morton
A van from a COVID-19 vaccine mobile clinic hosted by McDonald's and the California Department of Public Health in September in Los Angeles.

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  • Business

Biden's vaccine rules for 100 million workers are here. These are the details

Companies with at least 100 employees must ensure their workers get a COVID-19 vaccine or undergo weekly testing. Some 17 million health care workers face a vaccine mandate with no testing option.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
A man fills out an application at a booth at the Employers Only Long Island Food, Beverage and Hospitality Job Fair on Oct. 19 in Melville, N.Y. Employers added 531,000 jobs in October, marking a recovery after two months of weaker job growth.

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  • Economy

The labor market is back on track after 531,000 jobs were added in October

U.S. employers added 531,000 new jobs as the unemployment rate fell to 4.6%. Millions of would-be workers are still on the sidelines, though, leaving the pace of the recovery in doubt.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Pfizer says its experimental pill for COVID-19 cut rates of hospitalization and death by nearly 90% among patients with mild-to-moderate infections.

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  • Health Care

Pfizer says its COVID-19 pill cuts disease's worst risks by 89%

Based on the strength of the trial's results, Pfizer says it will ask the FDA for emergency use authorization rather than enroll more people for clinical trials.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Hattie Pierce, 75, receives a Pfizer covid-19 vaccine booster shot from Dr. Tiffany Taliaferro at the Safeway on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Monday, October 4, 2021.

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  • Health

There's more demand for boosters than first shots of the COVID vaccine

Some experts worry "boostermania" is distracting from the goal of getting tens of millions of unvaccinated Americans their first shots.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Rob Stein
A resort at Natadola Bay in Fiji is among many to have felt the effect of COVID on tourism.

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  • Health

How does a country with no COVID reopen its borders? These places are finding out

There is a glaring irony of the pandemic: Countries like the island nation of Tonga that have managed to keep the virus at bay may be some of the last to recover from the economic impact.

November 05, 2021
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By:
  • Ashley Westerman
The U.K. says it's the first country to approve an oral antiviral medication to fight COVID-19. "This is important, because it means it can be administered outside of a hospital setting, before COVID-19 has progressed to a severe stage," said MHRA Chief Executive Dr. June Raine.

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  • Health

The U.K. approves Merck's COVID-19 antiviral pill, calling it a world first

"The U.K. is now the first country in the world to approve an antiviral that can be taken at home for COVID-19," Health and Social Care Secretary Sajid Javid said.

November 04, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell walks between meetings with senators on Capitol Hill on Oct. 6 in Washington, D.C. The Fed kept its interest rates near zero at the end of its policy meeting on Wednesday and announced a plan to start removing some of the support it's providing to the economy.

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  • Economy

Inflation is at a 30-year high. Here's how the Federal Reserve plans to deal with it

The Fed left interest rates near zero on Wednesday but announced plans to start removing some of the support it has provided to the economy as inflation hits its highest point in 30 years.

November 03, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Horsley
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers has reportedly tested positive for the coronavirus.

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  • Sports

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, who said he was 'immunized,' reportedly has COVID

Green Bay would not explicitly confirm whether Rodgers tested positive and would not comment on whether he is vaccinated. Multiple media reports say the reigning NFL MVP is unvaccinated.

November 03, 2021
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By:
  • Merrit Kennedy
Colin Sweeney, 12, got a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as his mother, Nicole, stands by in Pasadena, Calif., in May. As of this week, kids aged 5 to 11 can also get vaccinated against COVID-19.

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  • Health

Some parents want to wait to vaccinate their kids. Here's why doctors say do it now

Physicians weigh in on what you need to know about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, and how to think about the risks and benefits of vaccinating your kid

November 03, 2021
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  • Allison Aubrey and
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
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