New Jersey is one of only two states that has included smoking among the high-risk medical conditions that make people eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine.
Some states are already expanding eligibility to people 65 and over, even though millions of people the C.D.C. recommends go first — health care workers and nursing home residents — have yet to get shots.
The incoming Biden administration plans to set up federally run mass vaccination sites and to release all government-held vials, rather than hold some back for second doses.
Appointed head of the incoming administration’s task force on health equity, the Yale University scientist “is not sitting in her ivory tower.”
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Emergency medical technicians for AmWest Ambulance have worked with coronavirus patients in Los Angeles since March. During the latest surge of cases in California, roughly 40 percent of the patients they transport are considered “Covid-19 probable.”
Global inequality is shaping which countries get vaccines first. In South Africa, people’s best chance for vaccines anytime soon is to join an experimental trial.
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Mexico is the first country in Latin America, a region hard hit by the coronavirus, to begin delivering the vaccines. A head nurse at a Mexico City hospital was the first person in the country to get a shot.
In Afghanistan, life goes on as though the coronavirus never existed. “Fake news,” some say, even as a second wave has brought on a surge of new cases and hospitalizations.
Using game theory, researchers modeled two ways of prioritizing vaccinations, to see which saved more lives.
Times are tough now, but the end is in sight. If we hunker down, keep our families safe during the holidays and monitor our health at home, life will get better in the spring. Here’s how to get through it.
A few minutes of morning television distilled the various ways that President Trump and his political allies have undermined confidence in the science about the virus.
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The medical anthropologist won the prize, which is given to “thinkers whose ideas have profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement.”
Despite early worries, flu patients are not competing with Covid-19 patients for ventilators, and the threat of dueling outbreaks may be waning.
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As cases surge and hospital beds fill up, federal officials said a vaccine could be distributed to as many as 24 million people by mid-January.
The C.D.C. will soon decide which group to recommend next, and the debate over the trade-offs is growing heated. Ultimately, states will decide whom to include.
The multipronged advice, for individuals and state and local officials, may augur a national strategy in the months to come, experts said.
In a two-day meeting sponsored by the N.I.H., officials acknowledged an insufficient understanding of the issues and warned of a growing public health problem.
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Laboratory technologists have been working nonstop to help the nation diagnose an ever-growing number of coronavirus cases.
The C.D.C. director will decide by Wednesday whether to accept the recommendation. States aren’t required to follow it, but most are expected to.
With vaccines and a new administration, the pandemic will be tamed. But experts say the coming months “are going to be just horrible.”
The northern Italian province became one of the deadliest killing fields for the virus in the Western world. But a Times investigation found that faulty guidance and bureaucratic delays rendered the toll far worse than it had to be.
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Despite geographical and partisan splits, the vast majority say they are heeding pandemic warnings and planning a quieter holiday than usual.