Among the most commonly cited reasons for COVID vaccine hesitation are fears about side effects, long-term health consequences, and the effectiveness of the vaccine, and mistrust of pharmaceutical corporations and government officials, according to a 2024 review of multiple studies, published in the journal Vaccines.

The inquiry says an earlier lockdown could have saved 23,000 lives in the first wave in England - and lockdown could have been avoided altogether with earlier interventions.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was trailing the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite on Monday, dragged down by a handful of healthcare stocks and shares of Goldman Sachs Group. Drugmakers Amgen and Merck have been the two worst performers in the Dow today.

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Yes, the experts agree. If you performed the test correctly, a faint line on a COVID test is still a positive result. "Any line is a positive," Rhoads says. "That's not to say that it's easy to discriminate no line from a very faint line," he adds. "That can be challenging."

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Van Epps was a strategic planner in a group of state leaders who helped shape the state’s COVID-19 policies and no-bid spending, records show.

Allie McQuaid is feeling some growing pains about her 5-year-old daughter, who was born toward the beginning of the Covid pandemic in June 2020, starting kindergarten this year. In addition to being excited for her daughter, McQuaid tells TODAY.com that ...