Pandemic
A child arrives with her parent to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11-years-old at London Middle School in Wheeling, Ill., Nov. 17, 2021. As of Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, just over 17% of children in the U.S. ages 5 to 11 were fully vaccinated, more than two months after shots for them became available.
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Answering your COVID questions

Though the coronavirus, like many other infectious diseases, will never be truly gone, it could one day be considered endemic like rhinovirus or other upper respiratory infections. Where do we go from here? We invited back two virologists to update us on what scientists now know and help answer more of your COVID-19 questions.

The 21st—Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Today on The 21st, farmers are looking to unemployed Americans to fill positions usually taken by migrant workers, the literature of pandemics past, and scam artists looking to profit off COVID-19.

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