by Richard A. Hendricks | Sep 4, 2021 | Health News
Between the Delta variant and more people going to restaurants, weddings and large events without masks than at this time last year, he said, kids face a higher risk of getting sick.”A lot of people didn’t send their kids to school last year,”...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 22, 2021 | Health News
A new CNN analysis has found that at least nine states — Arkansas, Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Vermont — have enacted legislation that prohibits districts from requiring masks in schools. The list of schools banning...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 16, 2021 | Health News
With many schools across the United States now just weeks from reopening for the fall semester, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna are still doing clinical trials to see how coronavirus vaccines work in children under 12 — if they’re safe and what...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jul 13, 2021 | Health News
Now Dr. Michelle Fiscus, a pediatrician who has served as the state’s medical director of the vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization for two years, said she is afraid for the people of her state — which is already lagging in vaccination against the...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jun 11, 2021 | Health News
While a few advisers said it’s far too soon to consider using vaccines in children because kids are at such low risk from the virus, most argued that it’s important to have authorizations on hand should there be a resurgence of the virus in the fall and...
