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Dr. Paul Offit talks about the FDA policy shift on covid vaccines

The vaccine expert talks about what this could mean for the fall, whether more safety studies are really needed and what could have been done better with the initial covid vaccine rollout in 2020.

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Deadline looms for Orange County’s Covid-19 Eviction Diversion Program

Federally funded rental assistance program pays past-due rent for those facing imminent eviction.

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BRACY Vaccine Clinic Ready to Re-Boot

Now stocked with baby- and toddler-size vaccines, the clinic will re-open July 22 for kids 6 months and older.

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COVID-19 vaccine site for infants, toddlers opens July 1

Sen. Bracy: “Getting your child vaccinated should not be a political decision; it should be a parental decision.”

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INFANTS and toddlers can now get the Covid-19 vaccine. If parents can find it.

Despite CDC recommendation — and assurances of safety —area hospitals, doctors' offices and pharmacies aren't providing Covid-19 vaccines to kids under 5.

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MASK MANDATE

Let's see OCPS Superintendent Barbara Jenkins's mask "requirement" as an opportunity

It opens the door to blowing off all kinds of things we should do.

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What you need to know about the new Delta variant

It's contagious. It's nasty. And cases are doubling every two weeks among unvaccinated people. Infectious disease specialist Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University gets us up to speed.

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New coronavirus variants detected. What does that mean for our back-to-normal summer?

VoxPopuli asked William Schaffner, M.D., professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, to weigh in with the details.

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Yes, I got my 15-year-old the Pfizer shot

Vaccines are the golden ticket out of this pandemic. But for this to work, we all need to get on board.

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Vaccine expert answers vaccine skeptics

We ran the top concerns of vaccine skeptics, culled from a Nextdoor thread, by Paul Offit, MD, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Here's what he had to say.

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