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OPINION: The need to address "needle fear" in effort to vaccinate more people

No one likes needles. Of all the barriers to Covid-19 vaccination, fear of needles may seem trivial to overcome. But millions of American adults, not to mention children, still need to be injected to keep themselves and their communities safe. And it’s likely some of them aren’t doing so in part because they fear or just don’t like needles.

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Mobile bus clinics are being used to provide vaccines to those who cannot easily travel

From the East Coast to the West, health officials are taking the Covid-19 vaccines on the road.

Across the country, nurses, technicians, emergency medical workers and community partners are rolling up to the doorsteps, streets and churches of people who are homeless, who live in areas without reliable transportation or who have no internet access.

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CDC 3 items: Eye on possible surges, under scrutinity and makes changes

Criticisms abound for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after it changed its mask guidance Thursday to allow vaccinated individuals to go maskless in most settings. 

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New Jersey doctor, expert in infectious diseases, died of Covid in India helping to care for family

A distinguished New Jersey doctor considered a "giant in the field of infectious diseases" has died of COVID-19.

Dr. Rajendra Kapila was a professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and was a founding member of the New Jersey Infectious Disease Society.

The 81-year-old ded in India on April 28, nearly three weeks after testing positive for COVID-19, according to the Hindustan Times.

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