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Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY As COVID-19 cases surge, fueled by the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus, Americans wonder how to approach the holidays and safely travel and gather with friends and family.  The pace of new cases in the USA is up 41% compared with a month ago, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins data.…

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BY PETER SULLIVAN – 03/13/21 06:55 AM EST Increase vaccine supply Get shots in arms, including in hard-to-reach communities Overcome vaccine hesitancy: An NPR-PBS-Marist poll released this week found 30 percent of U.S. adults overall did not want the vaccine, a number that spiked to 49 percent among Republican men.  Make signing up for an appointment easier Make…

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Group 1a is health care workers and residents and staff of nursing homes, regardless of age. Group 1b is elderly people who are 75 or older and essential frontline workers, i.e. people with jobs in grocery stores, bus drivers and other transportation workers, meat packing plant workers, teachers, people who work in prisons, postal workers,…

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Lindy Washburn, NorthJersey.com  10/14/2020 On the afternoon of Sept. 22, I became a data point in the search for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. That’s when I received the first of two shots in a clinical trial to develop a vaccine and became one of 30,000 volunteers to take a needlestick for science. Why am I doing it? A combination of altruism, curiosity,…

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4 Things You Can Do to Make Your Flu Shot More Effective Get vaccinated by the end of October for it to be most effective, according to the CDC A study in International Journal of Behavioral Medicine found that those who did not get more than five hours of sleep per night leading up to their flu shot made…

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