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    A snowstorm in the Northeast threatens to snarl vaccine deliveries.

    A major winter storm is bearing down on the Northeast, from Virginia to New England, with the potential to snarl distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech...

    A new survey finds that about a quarter of Americans don’t want to get vaccinated.

    As the United States begins the most ambitious vaccination drive in its history, with images of relieved health care workers getting a shot in...

    In New Hampshire, the governor will wait his turn to get the vaccine.

    It was not quite 30 degrees in Manchester, N.H. — with a wind chill of 19 — but Gov. Chris Sununu looked relieved and...

    Tom Cruise Erupts at ‘Mission: Impossible’ Crew Over Covid-19 Breach

    The actor Tom Cruise recently erupted at crew members on the set of “Mission: Impossible 7” over a breach of Covid-19 protocols in an...

    If teachers get vaccinated quickly, can students go back to school?

    In Arizona, where several schools have moved online in recent weeks amid a virus surge, Gov. Doug Ducey declared that teachers would be among...

    The first Covid-19 vaccines bring Americans hope in small doses.

    Some of the medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States found the gloom that has long...

    The first coronavirus vaccines bring Americans hope in small doses.

    Some of the medical centers that have endured the worst of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States found the gloom that has long...

    New At-Home Covid Test Gets Green Light From F.D.A.

    The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued an emergency authorization for the country’s first coronavirus test that can run from start to finish...

    The next vaccine challenge is to reassure older Americans.

    Older Americans are pivotal to the success of the vaccination campaign rolling out across the United States. They are the most likely to be...

    Moderna Vaccine Is Highly Protective and Prevents Severe Covid, Data Show

    But fewer cases of Covid-19 occurred among trial participants in the early days of the Moderna trial, making it harder to measure differences between...

    Covid Stole My Sense of Smell. The City’s Not the Same.

    I imagined that my doctor’s sterile white office smelled of acrid bleach or hints of ethyl alcohol from the hand sanitizer dispensers sprinkled throughout...

    Music During Surgery May Aid Recovery

    Patients undergoing surgery who listen to soothing talk and music while under anesthesia may wake up feeling less pain and require less pain medicine.German...

    With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’

    And while Pfizer’s vaccines are already flowing to Britain, Canada and the United States, it is unclear when they will arrive in other countries....

    Did You Get the Coronavirus Vaccine, or Are You Planning To?

    With approval from the Food and Drug Administration now in hand, Pfizer is shipping doses of its coronavirus vaccine this week to hospitals around...

    Fruit Flies Are Essential to Science. So Are the Workers Who Keep Them Alive.

    The rooms that make up the Bloomington Drosophila Stock Center at Indiana University are lined wall to wall with identical shelves. Each shelf is...

    After a Covid-19 Semester, College Doctors Reflect on Sports

    His colleague Dr. James Nataro, the chairman of pediatrics at the University of Virginia, who is a pediatric infectious diseases expert who studies emerging...