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    Why the C.D.C. Changed Its Advice on Masks

    Advice from federal health officials that fully vaccinated people could drop their masks in most settings came as a surprise to Americans, from state...

    Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are powerfully effective against the virus, a C.D.C. analysis confirmed.

    The Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines are 94 percent effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 illness, according to a new study of more than 1,800...

    How the United States Beat the Variants, for Now

    On Dec. 29, a National Guardsman in Colorado became the first known case in the United States of a contagious new variant of the...

    Businesses Offer Perks to Vaccinated Customers

    At Fort Bragg, soldiers who have gotten their coronavirus vaccines can go to a gym where no masks are required, with no limits on...

    Vaccinated Americans May Go Without Masks in Most Places, Federal Officials Say

    John Moore, a virologist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, said people would need to assess their own comfort in different situations, depending...

    Hundreds of Epidemiologists Expected Mask-Wearing in Public for at Least a Year

    When federal health officials said on Thursday that fully vaccinated Americans no longer needed to wear masks in most places, it came as a...

    Covid Pandemic Demands Air Quality Changes in the Workplace, Researchers Say

    Clean water in 1842, food safety in 1906, a ban on lead-based paint in 1971. These sweeping public health reforms transformed not just our...

    C.D.C. Says Vaccinated People Can Go Maskless in Most Places

    In a sharp turnabout from previous recommendations, federal health officials on Thursday advised that Americans who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus may stop...

    More Scientists Urge Broad Inquiry Into Coronavirus Origins

    A group of 18 scientists stated Thursday in a letter published in the journal Science that there is not enough evidence to decide whether...

    A Lingering Effectof the Pandemic: ‘Never-Ending’ Guilt

    Talking it through with a trusted friend or, if your thoughts are pervasive, with a therapist, can help you analyze your thinking and any...

    Many Unvaccinated Latinos in the U.S. Want the Shot, New Survey Finds

    Nearly 40 percent of all the unvaccinated Latinos responding to the survey said they feared they would need to produce government-issued identification to qualify....

    Covid Vaccines Protect Pregnant Women, Study Confirms

    The vaccines produced similar responses in all three groups of women, eliciting both antibody and T-cell responses against the coronavirus, the scientists found. Of...

    Sophomore Year 2020: Students Struggle With the Coronavirus Pandemic

    Before the pandemic, he would have said he was a kid who was on track for a scholarship down the road, maybe even at...

    Weekly Health Quiz: Weight-Loss Drugs, Psychedelics and Friends

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    Vacunas para la COVID-19: ¿debo ponerme la segunda dosis?

    Sin embargo, la agencia advirtió a la gente no vacunada que corre más riesgo —y debería seguir usando cubrebocas— cuando va a ver una...

    C.D.C Confirms More Cases of Rare Blood Clot Disorder Linked to J&J Vaccine

    Federal health officials have now confirmed 28 cases, including six in men, of a rare blood clotting disorder in adults who have received the...