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A traveler waits for a flight at Portland International Airport in Oregon last week. Public health experts say it's important that people who traveled or gathered with others are especially careful…
Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines whether to approve a vaccine or authorize a vaccine for emergency use, clinical trials are conducted to determine how well it works. This is…
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A flu vaccine is administered at a walk-up COVID-19 testing sit in San Fernando, Calif. A COVID-19 vaccine could soon win emergency use authorization from the FDA. Robyn Beck /AFP via…
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A patient is treated for COVID-19 at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Los Angeles. Hospitalizations because of the coronavirus are surging in California. Jae C. Hong/AP
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that the city will no longer use its previous threshold for closing schools. Andrew Burton/Getty Images
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More than 91,000 people were hospitalized with the coronavirus on Saturday — over 6,000 of them on ventilators. With the holiday season fast approaching, health experts fear the worst is yet to come.…
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A health care worker is seen at a walk-up coronavirus testing site this week in San Fernando, Calif. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images
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As COVID-19…
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, seen here on Oct. 29, told Germans this week, "We're in for a tough winter." New cases of the coronavirus have been hovering at about 20,000 per day…
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Black Friday shoppers wearing face masks wait in line to enter a store at the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, Calif., on Friday. Ringo H.W. Chiu/AP
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Black Friday,…