Coronavirus
The latest Coronavirus coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Health section.
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Biden urges shots for young adults as variant concern grows
The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as the White House acknowledges it will miss two key vaccination benchmarks and as concern grows about the spread of a new variant that threatens to set the country back in the months ahead.
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First lady to visit Nashville, encourage vaccinations
First lady Jill Biden will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday as part of a national effort to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19. First lady Jill Biden will travel to Nashville, Tennessee, on Tuesday as part of a national effort to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Vaccine hesitancy puts India’s gains against virus at risk
In Jamsoti, a village tucked deep inside India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, the common refrain among the villagers is that the coronavirus spreads only in cities. The deadly infection, they believe, does not exist in villages.
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US hitting encouraging milestones on virus deaths and shots
COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in arms approached another encouraging milestone Monday: 150 million Americans fully vaccinated.
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Vaccine fears: Why don’t more health care workers take COVID-19 vaccines?
Front-line health care workers were the first in line when COVID-19 shots became available in December, but polling shows that medical professionals can be vaccine-hesitant, too, leaving some with concerns about the vaccines to question whether health care professionals know something the rest of us don't.
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AP-NORC poll: Many Americans resuming pre-virus activities
Many Americans are relaxing precautions taken during the COVID-19 pandemic and resuming everyday activities, even as some worry that coronavirus-related restrictions were hastily lifted, a new poll shows.
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Biden promotes milestone of 300 million vaccine shots in 150 days
President Joe Biden took a cautious victory lap Friday in his quest to bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, announcing that 300 million vaccine shots have been administered in the 150 days since he took office.
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In poorest countries, surges worsen shortages of vaccines
Hati Maronjei once swore he would never get a COVID-19 shot, after a pastor warned that vaccines aren't safe.
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Vaccine fears: Concerns about adverse events and long-term effects of COVD-19 vaccines
Six months ago marks when the first American outside of clinical trials received a COVID-19 shot, and many people who are vaccine-hesitant may worry that enough still isn't known about potential adverse events or long-term effects of vaccination.
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Black community has new option for health care: The church
Every Sunday at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, the Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. praises the Lord before his congregation. But since last fall he's been praising something else his Black community needs: the COVID-19 vaccine.
