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Texas teen diagnosed with neurological disorder after getting first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

THE WOODLANDS, Texas – A Texas teen is now questioning the COVID-19 vaccine after he says he was diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder shortly after receiving his first dose, according to a report from News 6 sister station KPRC.

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Conservation group seeks to reverse Trump changes to sea turtle protection

NEW ORLEANS – Conservation groups sued on Tuesday to reverse changes made under former President Donald Trump to rules protecting sea turtles, even though federal regulators said a week ago that they were reconsidering some of those changes.

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Biden moves up COVID-19 vaccine eligibility date to April 19

"We are going to open it up across the board," said President Joe Biden as he described his administration's new vaccine eligibility plan, which will now guarantee all US adults will be eligible to get in line for a COVID-19 vaccine on Apr 19

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This baseball team is offering $10 tickets to fans who get vaccinated

CINCINNATI – The Cincinnati Reds will offer fans a chance to get a ticket for $10 if they show the ticket office their vaccination card with at least one shot completed.

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UCF prepares to vaccinate 6,000 students

ORLANDO, Fla. – Beginning Wednesday, students at the University of Central Florida will be able to get the vaccine on campus.

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York Region opens COVID-19 vaccine appointments for residents aged 45-59 in 5 communities

COVID-19 vaccine appointments for residents aged 45 to 59 in five “high-priority communities.”In a news release issued Tuesday, officials said eligible residents will be able to book appointments beginning at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday.“These high priority communities are geographical locations with high historic and ongoing rates of transmission, hospitalization and death,” the news release said.

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Omni Healthcare accepting walk-ins for coronavirus vaccine at Melbourne clinic

MELBOURNE, Fla. – Omni Healthcare is allowing people to walk in for a COVID-19 vaccine at its Melbourne location for a limited time.

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Biden administration will not mandate a COVID-19 vaccine passport system, White House says

UNITED STATES - MARCH 19: COVID-19 vaccination record card issued by the Centers for Disease Control (Photo By Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) The federal government will not mandate a COVID-19 "vaccine passport" system in the United States, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in her daily press briefing Tuesday."Let me be very clear on this, I know there’s been lots of questions. The government is not now, nor will we be, supporting a system that requires Americans to carry a credential.

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B.C.’s COVID-19 vaccine registration website holds up amid opening day pressure

online booking system for immunizations has gone through the first morning without crashing.Public health officials were cautioning people to be patient with the new system when it launched Tuesday morning.As of 11 a.m. Tuesday, 93,031 people registered for their vaccine through the Get Vaccinated system.

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Anti-vaxxers come after Morgan Freeman for COVID PSA

the COVID-19 vaccine has put him in the bullseye of anti-vaxxers.In the ad, which was put out on April 5 by the nonprofit Creative Coalition, the acting icon said, "I'm Morgan Freeman. I'm not a doctor. But I trust science.

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Nearly half of new US virus infections are in just 5 states

Nearly half of new coronavirus infections nationwide are in just five states — a situation that is putting pressure on the federal government to consider changing how it distributes vaccines by sending more doses to hot spots.

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White House says over 28 mn COVID-19 vaccine doses will be available this week

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UK variant a 'brand new ballgame,' infecting children in US 'very readily,' epidemiologist warns

Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, said Sunday on "Meet the Press.""In fact, right here in Minnesota, we're now seeing the other aspect of this B.1.1.7 variant that hasn't been talked much about, and that is the fact that it infects kids very readily," he added.To date, there have been more than 15,500 total cases of B.1.1.7 reported since it was first detected in the U.S. in December, data from the U.S.

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Canada’s health minister says discussions on ‘vaccine passports’ with international partners ongoing

Canada’s Health Minister Patty Hajdu said on Tuesday while now was not the time to travel, there were ongoing discussions with international partners about potential “vaccine passports” for travel outside the country, saying wherever “that conversation evolves,” Canadians will have the documents necessary for travel.

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AstraZeneca UK vaccine trial in children paused: Oxford

A British trial of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine on children has been paused while regulators assess its possible link to blood clots, Oxford University, which helped develop the jab, has said.

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Oxford halts dosing in trial of AstraZeneca Covid vaccine in children, teenagers

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Central Florida works to vaccinate college students as state tallies 5,459 new COVID cases

ORLANDO, Fla. – With Florida now vaccinating people 16 and older, Central Florida universities are working to get shots to their respective students.

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‘We must all speed up’: Trudeau offers help to provinces as vaccine rollout trails deliveries

Justin Trudeau says the federal government stands ready to jump in and help provinces with their vaccination efforts as millions of vaccines await administering in freezers across the country.According to a series of tweets issued by Health Minister Patty Hajdu on Monday night, a total of 10 million vaccines have been distributed to the provinces to date – but as of Monday night, over 3.3 million of those jabs have yet to go into the arms of Canadians.“I think people recognize the fact that we must all speed up the vaccination process,” Trudeau acknowledged on Tuesday.“We’ll continue doing our job to make sure that more and more doses are delivered throughout the country, but if the provinces need additional resources, additional

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Ottawans aged 60-plus able to book COVID-19 vaccine appointments on Wednesday

expanding the availability of COVID-19 vaccine appointments to all Ottawa residents aged 60 and older as of Wednesday.Any Ottawa resident born in 1961 or earlier across the city can book their vaccine at a community clinic via the provincial system on Wednesday, lowering the age cap for vaccinations to 60 from 70.Ottawa had temporarily suspended new bookings via the provincial system last week after all slots up until April 7 had been filled, but appointments were reopened over the weekend.Those aged 55 and up can also book appointments at one of 34 pharmacies as part of the pilot program expanded to the city this past weekend.Meanwhile, residents aged 50 and older who live in certain high-risk areas of Ottawa are also being prioritized for

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Beetroot juice may boost health via changes in oral bacteria

gut microbiota, to affect our health and well-being in a multitude of ways, many of them positive.Much of the information on the bacteria that make their home in our mouths, however, focuses on gum disease and its knock-on inflammatory effects around the body.The role of oral bacteria in producing nitric oxide, which benefits cardiovascular and cognitive health, is much less well-known.Many species of oral bacteria convert the inorganic nitrate in vegetables into nitrite. Nitrite is a precursor for nitric oxide, a signaling molecule that dilates blood vessels and transmits messages between neurons in the brain.

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COVID-19 vaccines to come to Ontario’s hot spots for those 50+, provincial portal bookings expanding to 60+

COVID-19 hot spot neighbourhoods will be able to get their vaccines in the coming weeks.The government says prioritizing those communities located in 13 public health units will help prevent the spread of COVID-19.Officials say many of the people who live in those hot spot neighbourhoods are essential workers.The 13 public health units are: Durham, Halton, Hamilton, Niagara, Ottawa, Peel, Simcoe-Muskoka, Southwestern, Toronto, Waterloo, Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph, Windsor-Essex, and York Region.

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Unions, politicians call on Ontario to vaccinate teachers or close schools in hot spots

COVID-19 grew louder on Tuesday as some health units opted to close schools amid rising case numbers across the province.Opposition leaders called on the government to offer vaccines to education workers, while unions said schools in areas with high infection rates should close until the shots are offered.NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said the government should “urgently” vaccinate education workers and use the upcoming April break to make other upgrades to classrooms. Peel Region medical officer of health ordering schools to close for 2 weeks due to COVID-19 “Parents, educators, and students across the province have been thrown into chaos once again,” Horwath said.

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Vaccine cert should not lead to discrimination - ICCL

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties said that a digital certificate for Covid-19 vaccination cannot and should not lead to any type of discrimination.

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Philadelphia announces COVID-19 vaccine eligibility expansion

FILE - Nurses draw vaccine doses from a vial as Maryland residents receive their second dose of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine at the Cameron Grove Community Center on March 25, 2021 in Bowie, Maryland. PHILADELPHIA - As the Philadelphia region works to make the goal of President Biden's goal of having all American adults eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, Philadelphia officials announced new dates towards that mission. Currently, Philadelphia is partially in Phase 1C. Those included in Phase 1C include sanitation workers, maintenance and janitorial staff, utility workers, and postal and package delivery workers. As of April 12, Phase 1C will be expanded to include workers who cannot work remotely.

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WHO says AstraZeneca Covid shot's benefits outweigh risks; assessing latest data

GENEVA: The World Health Organization expects there will be no reason to change its assessment that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 outweigh any risks, its regulatory director said on Tuesday.The WHO is closely studying the latest data alongside European and other regulators, in light of reports of blood clots among people who have been vaccinated, said Rogerio Gaspar, WHO director of regulation and prequalification.A senior official at Europe's medicines regulator has said there is a clear "association" between AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine and very rare blood clots in the brain, though the direct cause of the clots is still unknown.The European Medical Agency (EMA) said in a statement after the comments by Marco

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Moderna COVID-19 vaccine protection lasts at least 6 months, study finds

BOSTON - New research suggests the Moderna vaccine against COVID-19 offers protection for at least six months.Findings published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine echo what Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, said last week about their vaccine, which works in a similar way.The study of Moderna’s vaccine followed 33 healthy adult participants and found "antibody activity remained high" across all age groups six months after the second dose, researchers said. The team was led by Nicole Doria-Rose of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).

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It's a 'travesty' that some nations are unable to start COVID vaccinations: WHO

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Toronto FC players, staff begin getting COVID-19 vaccinations in Florida

Toronto FC personnel has received its first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine with more to follow.General manager Ali Curtis, currently in Mexico for the MLS team’s Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League game against Club Leon on Wednesday, said he was among six to eight staff members vaccinated Saturday in Florida.Non-travelling players and staff were due to get vaccinated Tuesday in Orlando, where TFC has set up shop for the 2021 season due to pandemic-related border restrictions.Curtis said he expected the rest of the travelling party would be vaccinated Friday upon their return to Florida.

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Canadians share mixed feelings of joy, disappointment as COVID-19 vaccinations ramp-up

COVID-19 pandemic.Until last Tuesday, when the province imposed a three-week-long “circuit breaker,” B.C. was one of few provinces that hadn’t entered a second lockdown after its first in March of last year.

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Disney cancels US cruises through end of June

Disney announced Tuesday that is canceling all U.S. sailings through the end of June — including trips on the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy, which call Port Canaveral their homeport.

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Russia’s COVID-19 defense may depend on mystery vaccine from former bioweapons lab—but does it work?

Olga DobrovidovaScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation.When the Kremlin last month said Russian President Vladimir Putin had received the first dose of a homegrown COVID-19 vaccine, a guessing game began.

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COVID-19: Vaccine eligibility expands in London-Middlesex, Elgin-Oxford to those 65+

COVID-19 vaccine in the London area, local health officials have announced.As of Tuesday, people aged 65 and older, and those who are turning 65 this year, are now able to book an appointment to receive a vaccine at a mass vaccination clinic in London-Middlesex and Elgin-Oxford.

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India reports over 90,000 new Covid cases in 24 hrs, 58% are from Maharashtra

covid-19 cases and deaths in Maharashtra and Punjab remain cause of “extreme" concern for the government as India strives to tackle the second wave of coronavirus pandemic.Maharashtra, Punjab and Chhattisgarh continue to record high case load and deaths.

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New Yorkers over 16 can now sign up for Covid jab as US expands eligibility

NEW YORK: New Yorkers over 16 years old can sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations starting Tuesday, a major expansion of eligibility as the state seeks to immunize as many people as possible.The State University of New York also announced plans to offer vaccines to tens of thousands of college students before they head home for the summer.Gov. Andrew Cuomo expanded eligibility to 30 and over last week and announced that people aged 16 to 29 would be eligible starting April 6.Teens aged 16 and 17 will be limited to receiving the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, since that is the only one that has been authorized for use by people under 18.

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Tanzania's new president changes policy on COVID-19, media

NAIROBI – Tanzania's new president appears to be taking a new, scientific approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Viral thoughts: Why COVID-19 conspiracy theories persist

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Daniel Roberts hadn’t had a vaccination since he was 6. No boosters, no tetanus shots. His parents taught him inoculations were dangerous, and when the coronavirus arrived, they called it a hoax. The vaccine, they said, was the real threat.

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Family Health Source to offer COVID-19 vaccine in underserved areas of Volusia County

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. – Family Health Source is bringing shots to underserved areas of Volusia County.

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Dr. Bogoch weighs in on Ontario-wide COVID-19 lockdown possibility

After recommendations from Toronto Public Health, 22 schools in the city temporarily closed on Tuesday due to COVID-19 investigations. According to infectious diseases specialist Isaac Bogoch, issues including the spread of variants and unchecked community transmission in Ontario regions have been main concerns. “I think you’re going to see medical officers of health look at the schools pretty closely,” says Bogoch.“And if there is data that really showed evidence that this is driving transmission I wouldn’t be surprised if we see more (closures).”Bogoch adds that there are measures to create safer schools and hopes new policies will be considered when kids return to school. COVID-19: Toronto Public Health recommends temporary closure of

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All US adults to be eligible for Covid-19 vaccine this month

US President Joe Biden is to announce that all adults across the United States will be eligible for Covid-19 vaccines by 19 April - well ahead of the already ambitious previous target.

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Florida awarded $194 million to expand COVID-19 vaccine efforts

Florida has been awarded more than $194 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to further expand coronavirus vaccinations in the Sunshine State, the CDC announced Tuesday.

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Portal open now for COVID-19 vaccinations at the Orange County Convention Center

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – The portal to make an appointment to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the Orange County Convention Center opened Tuesday morning with the site’s new expanded capacity.

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COVID-19: Albertans with underlying health conditions born in 1973 or earlier eligible for vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine rollout to include thousands more people.Beginning at 8 a.m. Tuesday, eligible Albertans in Phase 2B of the vaccine rollout program who were born in 1973 or earlier can book an appointment to be vaccinated through Alberta Health Services’ online booking portal or by calling Health Link at 811.AHS warned Tuesday morning that 811 and the online booking tool were experiencing high volumes of people seeking appointments.

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COVID-19 vaccination for all not possible right now. Centre explains why

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Hamilton leaders outraged lower city excluded from province’s vaccine rollout in pharmacies

COVID-19 vaccines in pharmacies, calling the decision “reckless.”Hamilton Centre NDP MPP Andrea Horwath and MP Matthew Green, as well as city councillors Jason Farr, Nrinder Nann, Maureen Wilson and Sam Merulla, issued a joint statement calling the move “incomprehensible and irresponsible” and suggesting more risk factors with populations in the lower and inner-city.

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Man left furious after being turned away from Covid jab appointment for arriving on bike

WalesOnline reports. On Monday, March 22, Mr Cooper rode his bike from Ammanford to Swansea and caught the train into Carmarthen, riding his bike to the facility before being turned away.

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College Gymnast Whips Out COVID-19 Vaccination Card After Sticking Vault Landing

By For singles, having sex during the last year meant weighing desire against a willingness to risk your health or even your life. But as we slowly emerge from the house—and run toward vaccine clinics nationwide—The Summer of Love will have nothing on summer 2021. By “Let's normalize working mothers and all that they have to do to make it all happen.”By Authentic, Accessible, RelevantMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2021 Condé Nast.

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Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
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Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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