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CDC now says healthy kids and pregnant women ‘may’ still get Covid shots

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said days ago that the COVID vaccine would no longer be recommended for healthy children and pregnant women. The CDC's website sends a more nuanced message.

Will you be able to get a COVID-19 shot? Here’s what we know so far.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that COVID-19 shots are no longer recommended for healthy children and pregnant women.

Five Years Later

Six things we got wrong about COVID-19, from washing groceries to herd immunity

As knowledge about the virus grew, experts revised their guidance on seemingly everything about the illness.

More than 1 million Americans have died of COVID-19. Why is there no national day to remember them?

Five years after the virus emerged, Americans have not coalesced around an understanding of how COVID shaped us and what we've lost.

COVID-like bat virus discovered by researchers in Chinese lab

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China said they discovered a new coronavirus in bats that enters cells using the same gateway as the virus that causes COVID-19.

Tracker: See the latest levels of coronavirus in Boston-area waste water

How much COVID-19 is circulating in the community? See the latest waste water numbers.

Adults 65 and older should get second round of this year’s COVID-19 shot, CDC says

The agency also recommended that people 50 and older get the pneumococcal vaccine.

Some Boston doctors are starting to unravel the mysteries of long COVID and find improved treatments

There’s still no cure for the debilitating condition but some front-line clinicians are finding ways to help patients feel better.