Police arrested a man recently honored as a local 2020 Paramedic of the Year after Polk County, Florida, law enforcement officials alleged he “set up the circumstance” that led to the theft of three Covid-19 vaccine doses meant for firefighters.
Trump says he’ll campaign against Murkowski in Alaska next year
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Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he plans to campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Alaska next year when she's up for reelection, intensifying his pledges to oppose GOP lawmakers who have bucked him...
How the Covid-19 hesitant population is declining rapidly
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The release of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine and its partnership with Merck means that President Joe Biden expects the US to have enough Covid-19 vaccines delivered to cover every adult by the end of May....
Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down
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The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn't happen all at once. Educators say students don't just wake up one day and decide that's it, no more school. It happens slowly. They ge...
A Black police officer in Florida was fired for using the N-word, but his police union wants him reinstated
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A Black police officer in Florida was fired this week after footage from his body camera showed him using the N-word during a personal phone call and while making an arrest last November. Delvin White, an eight-year...
Doctors in Chicago are making house calls to give vulnerable patients the Covid-19 vaccine
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Chicago Hattie Blumenberg can't easily get to a mass vaccination center. The 90-year-old woman has limited transportation, and leaving her Chicago home would require someone physically carrying her from the house to ...
Four sisters in their 80s and 90s reunited to get their Covid-19 vaccines together
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Four elderly sisters in New Jersey haven't been able to have their regular get-togethers during the coronavirus pandemic, but they made an exception to get their Covid-19 vaccinations. Edith Camp, 96, Bernice Cecil,...
Great apes at the San Diego Zoo receive a Covid-19 vaccine for animals
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Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated against Covid-19 a few weeks after the zoo's gorillas tested positive for the virus. Members of the zoo's bonobo and orangutan troops were vaccinated usi...
White House and Detroit officials seek to limit fallout after mayor initially declines Johnson & Johnson vaccine
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White House and Detroit officials tried to limit fallout after Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan initially declined to accept a distribution of Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine. The move is at odds with federal health...
Is it OK to be optimistic about Covid-19 now?
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For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a majority of Americans believe our fight against the virus is getting better in a new Gallup national poll, the latest sign that optimism is creeping bac...
Fake tax preparer gets six Covid-19 bailout loans worth more than $1 million
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His past clients say he's a scammer who ran off with their money, and a judge barred him from illegally masquerading as a certified public accountant after government officials caught on to his scheme. But none of ...
The countries making dubious claims over Covid-19 — and what that means for the world
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For the past year, countries around the world have shared data on Covid-19 cases and deaths with the World Health Organization (WHO) -- information that is crucial in informing the global fight against the disease. ...
One Arizona county has so many vaccine doses, it’s now able to offer them to anyone over 18
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Concerned that there weren't enough people signing up to get vaccinated against Covid-19, officials in one small Arizona county changed the vaccine eligibility requirement to encourage more people to make appointmen...