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COVID vaccines for veterans to be administered Saturday

ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Healthcare System is helping to ensure military veterans are staying coronavirus-free by holding a vaccination clinic for local veterans Saturday at the Ohio Valley Mall in St. Clairsville. The system is planning two seperate clinics in Belmont County for veterans to receive both required doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The vaccine requires two doses given approximately 21 days apart. The first dose of the vaccine will be administered Saturday, with another clinic date for the second dose inoculations set for April 10. Shelly ...

Anxiety, terror, relief: Birth in pandemic

NEW YORK (AP) — Pregnancy, birth and life with a newborn in the middle of a pandemic has brought on high anxiety, ever-shifting hospital protocols and intense isolation for many of the millions of women who have done it around the world. As the pandemic stretches into a second year and ...

Schools weigh whether to seat students closer together

BOSTON (AP) — New evidence that it may be safe for schools to seat students 3 feet apart — half of the previous recommended distance — could offer a way to return more of the nation’s children to classrooms with limited space. Even as more teachers receive vaccinations against ...

‘I don’t need the vaccine’: GOP worries threaten virus fight

FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (AP) — In this rural swath of Virginia’s Shenandoah valley, former President Donald Trump remains deeply admired, with lawn signs and campaign flags still dotting the landscape. The vaccines aimed at taming the coronavirus, however, aren’t so popular. Laura Biggs, a 56-year-old who has already recovered from the virus, is wary of taking the vaccine. Reassurances from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have done little to ease her alarm that the vaccine could lead to death. “The way I feel about it is: I ...

Extent of COVID-19 vaccine waste still largely unknown

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As millions continue to wait their turn for the COVID-19 vaccine, small but steady amounts of the precious doses have gone to waste across the country. It’s a heartbreaking reality that experts acknowledged was always likely to occur. Thousands of shots have ...

Vaccine eligibility expands again

COLUMBUS -- Ohio and age 40 and older will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccines beginning Friday. Gov. Mike DeWine announced the change Tuesday, adding that Ohio residents with certain conditions such as cancer and cardiopulmonary disease also will become eligible Friday. And, on March 29, any Ohio resident age 16 and up will be able to receive the vaccine.