Facebook plans to remove posts that contain false claims about vaccines, the social media giant said Feb. 8.
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Side effects appear to be more common after the second dose for both Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
President Joe Biden's administration may soon require a negative COVID-19 test for all domestic air travelers, according to Pete Buttigieg, transportation secretary, CNN reported Feb. 9.
After spending time in hospitals, markets and laboratories in Wuhan, China, the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus shared findings from their initial data during a Feb. 9 news conference.
In the last week, COVID-19 hospitalization averages have dropped 10 percent or more in 40 states, reports The COVID Tracking Project.
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State officials shouldn't lift COVID-19 restrictions as variant cases in the U.S. increase, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, said during a Feb. 8 White House news briefing.
New York City will open a mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Citi Field in Queens Feb. 10, Mayor Bill de Blasio said during a Feb. 8 media briefing.
The National Football League, in a letter to President Joe Biden, offered all 30 of its stadiums for use as COVID-19 mass vaccination sites, CNBC reported Feb. 5.
Dozens of Black health experts from the National Academy of Medicine signed on in support of a letter urging Black Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
About 10 percent of the U.S. population — or nearly 31.6 million Americans — has received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose, according to Feb. 7 data from the CDC.