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By Jacqueline Howard, CNN As the return to school approaches, some states are prohibiting public schools from requiring Covid-19 vaccinations or proof of vaccination for students ranging from pre-K to university. A CNN analysis has found that at least seven states — Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Montana, Oklahoma and Utah — have enacted legislation this

By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN COVAX has signed agreements with two Chinese pharmaceutical companies to buy more than half a billion of their Covid-19 vaccines by the first half of next year, Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) announced Monday. Under the agreements, Chinese vaccine makers Sinopharm and Sinovac will begin to make 110 million

By Holly Yan and Madeline Holcombe, CNN Just as health experts predicted, the combination of unvaccinated people and the more contagious Delta strain of coronavirus has led to new Covid-19 surges. In 46 states, the rates of new cases this past week are at least 10% higher than the rates of new cases the previous

By Amanda Sealy and Kaitlan Collins, CNN Pfizer executives briefed US federal health officials Monday about why they believe a third booster shot of its vaccine will be needed. The meeting was largely seen as a courtesy after the two sides disagreed last week on when a booster shot for the coronavirus vaccine might be

By Maggie Fox, CNN The top vaccine official for the state of Tennessee said Monday she was fired after an argument over vaccinating children against coronavirus. Now Dr. Michelle Fiscus, a pediatrician who has served as the state’s medical director of the vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization for two years, said she is afraid for the

By Amanda Sealy, John Bonifield and Maggie Fox, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration updated the label on Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine Monday to warn of the possible increased risk of a rare neurological complication known as Guillain-Barré syndrome. While the FDA said it had not established the vaccine could cause the syndrome,

By Deidre McPhillips, Steve Almasy and Madeline Holcombe, CNN When you compare states with high vaccination rates to states that are lagging, the difference in the number of people getting Covid-19 is staggering. Over the past week, states that have fully vaccinated more than half of their residents have reported an average Covid-19 case rate

By Holly Yan, CNN As troubling new variants emerge, doctors say the chances of controlling or ending the Covid-19 pandemic in the US will largely depend on how many young adults and children get vaccinated. Now, toddlers and babies as young as 6 months old are testing Covid-19 vaccines to help make sure they’re safe

By Alanne Orjoux and Holly Yan, CNN Defeating this pandemic and the highly contagious Delta variant isn’t just about protecting yourself through vaccination — it’s also about having others in the community vaccinated, doctors say. “Even if you are vaccinated, if you’re living in an area with high rates of Covid-19 spread — and with

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN The US has surpassed 20,000 new Covid-19 cases for the fourth day in a row as the highly contagious Delta variant persists in its track in being the most common form of the coronavirus in the country. The last time the country had back-to-back days of cases topping 20,000 was in

By Jessica DuLong, CNN Jessamyn Stanley’s new book, “Yoke,” begins with a spiritual awakening prompted by a typo. A late-night email alerted Stanley to a misspelling printed in her first book, “Every Body Yoga” She’d mistakenly defined the Sanskrit word for yoga as meaning to “yolk” instead of “yoke.” Instead of summoning images of joining

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Even though the biopharmaceutical company Pfizer has announced that it might be time to consider giving a third dose of its coronavirus vaccine to people, many doctors and public health officials argue that it’s more beneficial to get shots into the arms of the unvaccinated right now than to boost those

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN All eyes are on the Delta variant that is now dominant in the United States as new Covid-19 cases rise week-to-week and the variant — first identified in India and also known as B.1.617.2 — accounts for a growing share. But trends from Israel and the United Kingdom — where the

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at meningitis outbreaks in the United States. General Information Meningitis is caused by the inflammation of the protective membranes (known as meninges) covering the brain and spinal cord. The inflammation is typically caused by an infection of the fluid surrounding these areas. There are five types of meningitis: bacterial,

By Jacqueline Howard, CNN Vaccine makers are preparing for a next possible phase of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout: booster doses. The biopharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on Thursday that it has seen waning immunity from its coronavirus vaccine — although efficacy in preventing serious illness remains high — but did not detail the evidence. It said