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The Cherokee Nation is following recommendations from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to administer an additional dose of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to fully vaccinated patients who are moderately to severely immunocompromised.
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WHO says COVID boosters needed, reversing previous call

By Associated PressMar 8, 2022
Registered nurse Michelle O'Brien prepares a COVID-19 vaccination Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at the Chinook Clinic on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Wash. The Native American tribe began rationing its first 300 doses of vaccine as it fights surging cases with a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Hong Kong's success in fending off COVID comes back to haunt

By Associated PressFeb 26, 2022
Registered nurse Michelle O'Brien prepares a COVID-19 vaccination Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at the Chinook Clinic on the Lummi Reservation, near Bellingham, Wash. The Native American tribe began rationing its first 300 doses of vaccine as it fights surging cases with a shelter-in-place order. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
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Delay ahead for Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5

By Associated PressFeb 11, 2022
A pedestrian walk past Pfizer world headquarters, Monday Nov. 9, 2020, in New York. Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, but it doesn't mean a vaccine is imminent. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5

By Associated PressFeb 1, 2022
FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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Hospitalizations skyrocket in kids too young for COVID shots

By Associated PressJan 7, 2022
Dr. Mary Owen is the president of the Association of American Indian Physicians and executive director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health at the University of Minnesota. (Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota)
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Native kids & vaccinations: ‘Get it done now. It's safe’

By Indian Country TodayNov 3, 2021
A NHS pharmacy technician at the Royal Free Hospital, simulates the preparation of the Pfizer vaccine to support staff training ahead of the rollout, in London, Friday Dec. 4, 2020. (Yui Mok/Pool Photo via AP)
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US gives final clearance to COVID-19 shots for kids 5 to 11

By Associated PressNov 2, 2021
Pictured: This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses. Note the spikes that adorn the outer surface of the virus, which impart the look of a corona surrounding the virion, when viewed electron microscopically. A novel coronavirus, named Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019. The illness caused by this virus has been named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
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Largest colleges push student vaccines with mandates, prizes

By Associated PressSep 15, 2021
An employee gets a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, March 22, 2021 at a special vaccination site Bashas’ set up for its employees. More than 2.8 million vaccine doses had been distributed in Arizona to 1.8 million people as of Monday, according to state data. (Photo by Travis Robertson, Cronkite News)
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To get shots in arms, governments turn to money in pockets

By Associated PressJul 31, 2021
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, file photo, a vial of the Phase 3 Novavax coronavirus vaccine is seen ready for use in the trial at St. George's University hospital in London. Novavax says its vaccine appears effective against COVID-19 in a large study, including against variants. Results from the study in the U.S. and Mexico were released on Monday, June 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)
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Pentagon grappling with new vaccine orders

By Associated PressJul 30, 2021
FILE - In this March 2, 2021, file photo, socially distanced, and with protective partitions, students work on an art project during class at the Sinaloa Middle School in Novato, Calif. U.S. guidelines that say students should be kept 6 feet apart in schools are receiving new scrutiny from federal health experts, state governments and education officials working to return as many children as possible to the classroom. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)
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Vaccinated teachers and students don't need masks

By Associated PressJul 9, 2021
FILE - In this March 25, 2021, file photo, the celebration cauldron is seen lit on the first day of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic torch relay in Naraha, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan. The Tokyo Olympics are not looking like much fun: Not for athletes. Not for fans. And not for the Japanese public, who are caught between concerns about the coronavirus at a time when few are vaccinated on one side and politicians and the International Olympic Committee who are pressing ahead on the other. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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Japan bans fans at Tokyo-area Olympics venues

By Associated PressJul 9, 2021
FILE - In this April 8, 2021, file photo, students exit the KSU Ice Arena after getting their Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccination at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. Even as restrictions relax across much of the United States, colleges and universities have taken new steps to police campus life as the virus spreads through students who are among the last adults to get access to vaccines. (AP Photo/Phil Long, File)
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Nearly all COVID deaths are now among unvaccinated

By Associated PressJun 25, 2021
Registered nurse Elaine Crabb draws a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, March 22, 2021 at a special vaccination site Bashas’ set up for its employees. It came as state officials announced that they will open registration for vaccine appointments to people as young as 16. (Photo by Travis Robertson, Cronkite News)
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Why the White House will miss its vax target

By Associated PressJun 24, 2021
Korene Atene, a certified nursing assistant with the Monument Valley Health Center, gets information from people lined up to get tested for COVID-19 outside of the center in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County, on Thursday, April 16, 2020. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rates in the country. (Photo by Kristin Murphy, Deseret News via AP)
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Navajo Nation leery of Delta variant

By Cronkite NewsJun 24, 2021