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    As Virus Cases Rise, Another Contagion Spreads Among the Vaccinated: Anger

    As coronavirus cases resurge across the country, many inoculated Americans are losing patience with vaccine holdouts who, they say, are neglecting a civic duty...

    What to Know: Breakthrough Infections

    What to Know: Breakthrough InfectionsApoorva MandavilliReporting on the coronavirusBreakthrough infections may be more common with the highly contagious Delta variant than with other versions...

    Medical Groups Call for Vaccine Requirements for Health Care Workers

    A group of nearly 60 major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called on Monday for mandatory vaccination...

    A Common Heart Problem That’s Easy to Miss

    Longer term, most patients with A-fib can be effectively and safely treated with medication, usually drugs called beta blockers and calcium blockers that help...

    Fauci Sounds Alarm Over Low Covid Vaccination Rates

    Dr. Anthony S. Fauci warned on Sunday that the coronavirus pandemic is now “going in the wrong direction” in the United States because too...

    The Delta Variant Is the Symptom of a Bigger Threat: Vaccine Refusal

    Of the 39 percent of adults who are unvaccinated, about half say they are completely unwilling. But even within that group, some say they...

    Fauci Wants to Make Vaccines for the Next Pandemic Before It Hits

    In one sense, the world got lucky with the new coronavirus. By sheer chance, scientists just happened to have spent years studying coronaviruses, developing...

    The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online

    Over the last decade, Dr. Mercola has built a vast operation to push natural health cures, disseminate anti-vaccination content and profit from all of...

    For Older Adults, Home Care Has Become Harder to Find

    Its franchise operators employ about 7,000 home care aides, most over age 55. “We’re looking to add another 1,000 to 1,500 caregivers through this...

    They Waited, They Worried, They Stalled. This Week, They Got the Shot.

    CHICAGO — They acknowledged that they could have showed up months ago. Many were satisfied that they were finally doing the right thing. A...

    Biden Officials Now Expect Vulnerable Americans to Need Booster Shots

    WASHINGTON — Biden administration health officials increasingly think that vulnerable populations will need booster shots even as research continues into how long the coronavirus...

    C.D.C. Warns of Superbug Fungus Outbreaks in 2 Cities

    While C. auris has long been notoriously hard to treat, researchers for the first time identified five patients in Texas and Washington, D.C., whose...

    Purnell Choppin, 91, Dies; Researcher Laid Groundwork for Pandemic Fight

    As well as his daughter, his wife, Joan, survives him.After he took over at the Hughes Institute, Dr. Choppin liked to tell his colleagues...

    When Euphemisms (but Never Sharks) Attack

    Shark scientists have been exhorting the public to call human-shark interactions something other than shark attacks, preferring less pejorative terms like “shark encounters.” The...

    Biden Predicts F.D.A. Will Give Final Vaccine Approval by the Fall

    “We’re going to be providing good opportunities and jobs for people who, in fact, are going to be reinvesting that money back in all...

    Testing Britney Spears: Restoring Rights Can Be Rare and Difficult

    Her voice quaking with anger and despair, the pop star Britney Spears has asked repeatedly in court to be freed from the conservatorship that...