Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Alexander Nazaryan

The culture war over masks reaches summer camps

WASHINGTON — Children attending camp this summer should keep their face masks on in most situations, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, during a Wednesday briefing of the White House coronavirus response...

Biden announces new goal: 70 percent of U.S. adults vaccinated by July 4

WASHINGTON — President Biden announced new measures on Tuesday designed to bolster the U.S. COVID-19 vaccination drive that has slowed in recent weeks.“As we anticipated, the pace of vaccination is slowing,” Biden said in prepared White House remarks.As he...

Biden's speech signals a larger role for federal government

WASHINGTON — The last time a sitting president addressed both chambers of Congress, few Americans had heard of the coronavirus. The unemployment rate was 3.5 percent. The intersection of Chicago Avenue and 38th Street in Minneapolis, had not yet...

No need for vaccinated people to mask up outside, CDC says

WASHINGTON — Face masks no longer have to be worn by fully vaccinated people in most outdoor settings, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, updating its previous guidance to reflect a new understanding of how...

Officials warn that vaccination slowdown looms as demand drops

WASHINGTON — Top public health officials in the Biden administration acknowledged on Friday that the pace of coronavirus vaccinations is slowing. They said they were preparing for a new phase in the nationwide inoculation effort, one that seeks to...

Biden announces tax credit so workers can get paid time off to be vaccinated

WASHINGTON — President Biden on Wednesday called for employers to provide workers with paid time off for coronavirus vaccination, holding out as enticement a federal tax credit program that would reimburse such outlays by business owners.“No working American should...

Democrats pushed hard for vaccine 'equity' — did they succeed?

WASHINGTON — To hear top officials in the Biden administration tell it, the effort to vaccinate Americans is a contest against the coronavirus, a determined opponent that could flare into a new surge (as it recently did in Michigan)...

No new blood clotting cases over Johnson & Johnson vaccine, CDC says

WASHINGTON — No new blood clotting cases have been definitively confirmed one week after initial reports of such cases led federal regulators to recommend that states temporarily stop administering the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. That could change in...

Virtual-only schooling drops below 10% for 1st time

WASHINGTON — The share of school districts continuing to offer virtual-only instruction to students fell below 10 percent for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began, according to statistics on pandemic schooling compiled weekly by the data firm...

'You will be just fine,' says surgeon general of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, though pause continues

WASHINGTON — Surgeon General Vivek Murthy had a message Friday afternoon for the 6.8 million Americans who have received the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine and who, in recent days, have read concerning reports about blood clotting: “The vast...

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