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Dec 2021
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Is Pfizer's antiviral pill the game chan...

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Promising data from Pfizer shows its antiviral Covid-19 pill reduces severe illness, hospitalizations, and death. And it appears to hold up against the Omicron variant.

A healthcare professional who is fully vaccinated and boosted just came down with Covid-19 for a second time.

California is reenacting a statewide mask mandate amid a surge in cases, even among the vaccinated. Will people actually mask up?

And the pandemic is part of the reason we're dealing with a nationwide shortage of teachers.

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