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Today, the Baker-Polito Administration announced the timeline for all remaining residents to be eligible for a vaccine. The Administration also announced the weekly distribution of vaccine doses statewide for providers and a new $24.7 million investment in the Administration’s Vaccine Equity Initiative. Vaccine Eligibility Timeline Governor Baker today announced the dates that all remaining residents and certain worker groups will be eligible for a vaccine. The Commonwealth’s detailed timeline adheres to the original timeline for the three phases announced in December. All residents can pre...

Hopes of a repeat of the post-influenza Roaring ’20s are understandable, but misunderstand the differences between then and now, says historian John M. Barry.

The coronavirus spread on an international flight, in a hotel corridor and then to household contacts despite efforts to isolate and quarantine patients, New Zealand researchers reported Thursday.

The CDC continues to update its counts of deaths by cause for 2020 as data comes in from the jurisdictions that report to it. The data are by now fairly complete, though there are still significant gaps in several states due to delayed reporting. North Carolina, in particular, has yet to report almost any deaths for the entire final quarter of 2020. But I haven’t updated my gallery since last October.

The briefing documents are out at the FDA site for tomorrow's hearing on the J&J vaccine. Here's a summary at STAT from Matthew Herper and Helen Branswell, and I agree with their take: overall, the numbers look good. Update: here's a good Twitter thread from Hilda Bastian, and here's one from Er

Biden moved up his timeline Tuesday, saying there would be enough Covid-19 vaccine supply to inoculate all Americans by the end of May.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday called on states to prioritize vaccinating teachers and school staff by the end of March.

The Director of the Centers for Disease Control cautioned against relaxing coronavirus restrictions one day after Governor Baker announced Massachusetts would ease capacity restrictions.

Pfizer and Moderna are testing their vaccines on children 12 and older and hope to have results by the summer.

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Moderna is studying whether booster doses could be necessary after finding its vaccine was less effective against one coronavirus variant.

Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune.

There's some bad news and perhaps some good news for people who've been previously infected with the coronavirus.

We have some more data to mull over with the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. The situation so far has been pretty confused, with various efficacy numbers appearing from different people in different venues. It's fair to say that the rollout of the clinical data has not gone smoothly, and that it's done

A little boy is recovering at his home in Lee, Massachusetts from a frightening COVID-19 surprise his parents never expected.

Covid-19 is revealing the bizarre nature of viral infection. Researchers are studying if having one virus might protect you from another one.

The CDC ordered software that was meant to manage the vaccine rollout. Instead, it has been plagued by problems and abandoned by most states.