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Children ages 5 to 11 have been eligible to get a COVID vaccine for a month, but state data show they are the least vaccinated among eligible groups. DENVER — Despite being eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine for a month, rates are lagging in children ages 5 to 11. “People…
Study after study has confirmed what parents across the country long suspected: the coronavirus pandemic — not just the disease itself, but the lockdowns and restrictions that governments enforced to combat it — has had a devastating impact on children’s physical and mental health. “Now we’re seeing the fallout,” pediatrician Dr. Nina L.…
Researchers at the University of Washington Medicine Retrovirology Lab at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle process samples from Novavax’s phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial in February 2021. Karen Ducey/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karen Ducey/Getty Images Researchers at the University of Washington Medicine Retrovirology Lab at Harborview Medical…
click to enlarge Courtesy photo University of Vermont Medical Center The University of Vermont Medical Center will postpone “a couple hundred” nonemergency surgeries in order to cope with…
Parents know that winter is the season of sickness. Your kid will have approximately infinite colds. You, too, will have approximately infinite colds. Last winter, COVID precautions kept sickness at bay. But this year, school is in session, day-care colds are spreading fast, and the only cohort of people in…
Three generations, (from left to right) grandmother Genoveva Calloway, daughter Petra Gonzales, and granddaughter Vanesa Quintero, live next door to each other in San Pablo, Calif. Recently their extended family was hit with a second wave of COVID infections a year after the first. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption toggle caption…