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US opens COVID vaccine to little kids; shots begin this week

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots

June 19

This May 2022 photo provided by Pfizer shows production of the Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 in Puurs, Belgium. U.S. regulators on Friday, June 17, authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. (Pfizer via AP)

CDC gives go-ahead on COVID vaccines for kids as young as 6 months

It's been a long wait for the last remaining age group yet to be vaccinated.

June 18

A child receives the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Hartford, Connecticut on November 2, 2021.

US opens COVID-19 vaccines to little kids; shots begin next week

US opens COVID-19 vaccines to little kids; shots begin next week

June 18

CDC panel recommends COVID-19 vaccines for youngest kids; final decision expected soon

CDC panel recommends COVID-19 vaccines for youngest kids; final decision expected soon

June 18

Expectant Black mothers turn to doulas, midwives for support

Doulas and midwives are helping mothers reclaim their child birthing processes.

June 17

Tereé Fruga, Ebon'Nae Bradley and Kennasha Jones pictured at Justina Arrington's delivery in a birth pool in Arlington, Texas.

FDA authorizes 1st COVID-19 shots for infants, preschoolers

U.S. regulators have authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers

June 17

This photo provided by Pfizer shows the production of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5 on May 2022 in Puurs, Belgium. U.S. regulators on Friday, June 17, authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week.(Pfizer via AP)

Cyprus trial of UK man: Was it murder or assisted suicide?

The trial of a British man charged with the premeditated murder of his ill wife in Cyprus' coastal resort of Paphos has been pushed back until September and he will remain in custody

June 17

Iowa court: Abortion not protected by state constitution

The Iowa Supreme Court has made it easier for lawmakers to limit or outlaw abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution

June 17

FILE - Marissa Messinger, of Lake View, Iowa, center, holds a sign during a rally to protest recent abortion bans, May 21, 2019, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday, June 17, 2022, cleared the way for lawmakers to severely limit or even ban abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to the procedure under the Iowa Constitution. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Minn. Republican threatens retaliation against medical board

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen has threatened to retaliate against the Minnesota board that oversees doctors as it investigates him for the fifth time

June 17

Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott Jensen announces a crime-fighting plan on Thursday, June 9, 2022, that would stiffen penalties for violent crime while boosting the role of the State Patrol and Minnesota National Guard. Jensen spoke at a news conference outside the State Capitol in St. Paul. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski)

Residents say China used health tracker for crowd control

Angry bank customers were stopped from protesting by a health app.

June 17

FILE - A woman wearing a face mask carries a masked child stands against a board displaying a health QR code on Wednesday, May 18, 2022, in Beijing. Angry bank customers who traveled to a city in central China attempting to retrieve their savings from troubled rural banks were stopped in their tracks by a common technology: a QR code. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

UK: 50 new monkeypox cases in biggest epidemic beyond Africa

The U.K.'s outbreak is now the biggest to date beyond Africa.

June 17

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. British health officials said they cannot tell if the spread of monkeypox has peaked in the country as they announced another 45 cases Friday, June 10, 2022. That makes for a total of 366 cases in the biggest-ever outbreak of the disease beyond Africa. (Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP, File)

Iowa Supreme Court: Abortion rights not protected by state constitution, clearing way for lawmakers to ban the procedure

Iowa Supreme Court: Abortion rights not protected by state constitution, clearing way for lawmakers to ban the procedure

June 17

US authorizes first COVID-19 shots for children under 5; CDC review is next

US authorizes first COVID-19 shots for children under 5; CDC review is next

June 17

China defends 'zero-COVID' after US envoy warns of costs

China is defending its tough "zero-COVID" policy.

June 17

Commuters wearing face masks ride across an intersection in the central business district in Beijing, Friday, June 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Germany's health minister urges voluntary use of face masks

Germany's health minister has urged residents to wear face masks indoors to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus

June 17

Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, shows an FFP2 mask during a press conference on the Corona situation in the summer at the Federal Press Conference in Berlin, Germany, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

The least vaccinated places in the US

CDC data shows 24 counties have vaccinated fewer than 30% of their residents.

June 17

Public Health Department COVID-19 outreach vaccination clinic at the firehouse in the small town Cooke City, Mont., June 8, 2021.

Thailand drops registration for visitors, outdoor mask rule

Thailand is lifting a pre-arrival registration requirement for foreign visitors that was seen as onerous and a drag on the recovery for a tourism industry battered by the coronavirus pandemic

June 17

FILE - Tourists lounge under umbrellas along Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand on March 11, 2022. Thai authorities say that on July 1, 2022, they are lifting the need for arriving foreign visitors to register online to get pre-approval for entry. (AP Photo/Salinee Prab, File)

WTO ministers reach deals on fisheries, food, COVID vaccines

World Trade Organization members have reached a string of deals and commitments aimed to limit overfishing, broaden production of COVID-19 vaccines in the developing world and reform a 27-year-old trade body that has been back on its heels in recent years

June 17

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) speaks at a press conference after the closing of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) at the headquarters of WTO in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, June 17, 2022. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

AP Interview: Biden says a recession is 'not inevitable'

President Joe Biden says the American people are "really, really down" after a tumultuous two years with the coronavirus pandemic, volatility in the economy and now surging gasoline prices that are hitting family budgets

June 16

President Joe Biden speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

White House clams up on Biden COVID-19 testing regimen

In an abrupt change of course, the White House is now declining to comment on the frequency of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 testing regimen

June 16

President Joe Biden speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 16, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Florida only state not preordering toddler COVID-19 vaccines

Florida is the only state that hasn't preordered COVID-19 vaccines for toddlers in anticipation of their final approval by the federal government

June 16

FILE - A boy receives a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination center in Hong Kong on Feb. 25, 2022. U.S. government advisers met Wednesday, June 15, 2022 to decide whether to endorse COVID-19 shots for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, moving the nation closer to vaccinations for all ages. According to the World Health Organization, 12 countries are vaccinating kids under 5. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Senate OKs enhanced benefits for vets exposed to burn pits

The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits

June 16

FILE - An Afghan National Army pickup truck passes parked U.S. armored military vehicles, as smoke rises from a fire in a trash burn pit at Forward Operating Base Caferetta Nawzad, Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan, April 28, 2011. The Senate is expected to approve on Thursday a large expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits. (AP Photo/Simon Klingert, File)

Only 1 state did not preorder COVID vaccines for young children

Florida is the first state to advise against vaccinating healthy kids for COVID.

June 16

Dr. Mayank Amin puts a band-aid on 5-year-old Lydia Jones after receiving a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 booster vaccine at Skippack Pharmacy in Schwenksville, Penn., May 19, 2022.

Biden tells AP that the notion that the 2021 coronavirus relief bill caused inflation is 'bizarre'

Biden tells AP that the notion that the 2021 coronavirus relief bill caused inflation is 'bizarre'

June 16

A child is treated for the coronavirus disease at the Children's Hospital of Georgia in Augusta, Ga., Jan. 15, 2022.

Production at bedeviled baby formula factory halted by storm

Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted

June 16

FDA panel recommends COVID-19 shots for children as young as 6 months old

Dr. Darien Sutton discusses the FDA panel's recommendation for the emergency use authorization for Moderna and Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 6 years old.

June 16

VIDEO: FDA panel recommends COVID-19 shots for children as young as 6 months old

Cyprus trial of UK man: Was it murder or assisted suicide?

The trial of a British man charged with the premeditated murder of his ill wife in Cyprus' coastal resort of Paphos has been pushed back until September and he will remain in custody

June 16

Italian surgeon gets conditional sentence in Sweden case

An Italian surgeon who made headlines in 2011 for carrying out the world's first stem-cell windpipe transplants at Sweden's leading hospital has been given a conditional sentence for causing bodily harm to a patient

June 16

WHO: COVID-19 deaths rise, reversing a 5-week decline

After five weeks of declining coronavirus deaths, the number of fatalities reported globally increased by 4% last week, according to the World Health Organization

June 16

People wearing face masks stand in line as they wait for mass COVID-19 tests at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

N. Korea reports another disease outbreak amid COVID-19 wave

North Korea says it is fighting an outbreak of another infectious disease.

June 16

In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju prepare medicines at an unannounced place in North Korea Wednesday, June 15, 2022 to send them to Haeju City where an infectious disease occurred. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. Korean language watermark on image as provided by source reads: "KCNA" which is the abbreviation for Korean Central News Agency. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

Low testing may be hiding a COVID wave hitting Texas, experts say

Half as many COVID tests are being performed compared to three months ago.

June 16

In this Jan. 7, 2022 file photo people arrive at a Covid-19 testing station in Houston, to receive a Covid test.

FDA advisers endorse 1st COVID-19 shots for kids under 5

The first COVID-19 shots for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in the U.S. have moved a step closer

June 15

FILE - A boy receives a dose of China's Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination center in Hong Kong on Feb. 25, 2022. U.S. government advisers met Wednesday, June 15, 2022 to decide whether to endorse COVID-19 shots for babies, toddlers and preschoolers, moving the nation closer to vaccinations for all ages. According to the World Health Organization, 12 countries are vaccinating kids under 5. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Dr. Anthony Fauci tests positive for COVID

Fauci is a senior adviser to the president on COVID-19.

June 15

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, attends a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 17, 2022.

FDA panel recommends authorizing Moderna, Pfizer shots for youngest kids

An FDA committee reviewed Pfizer and Moderna's shots for kids under 6.

June 15

In this file photo taken on Nov. 2, 2021, a 6-year-old child receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for 5- to 11-year-old kids at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn.

Alaska kids served sealant instead of milk at school program

A dozen students and two adults were served floor sealant instead of milk at a day care summer program at an Alaska elementary school

June 15

Fauci tests positive for virus, has mild COVID-19 symptoms

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of America's pandemic response through two White House administrations, has tested positive for the coronavirus

June 15

FILE - Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Fauci, who is fully vaccinated and has received two booster shots, tested positive for COVID-19, and was experiencing mild coronavirus symptoms, according to a Wednesday, June 15, 2022, press release posted by the NIH. (Shawn Thew/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Malta activists protest, seek to decriminalize abortion

Abortion rights activists have filed a legal protest in Malta's courts demanding the legalization of abortion

June 15

Activists hold up banners in both English and Maltese reading, 'I decide', 'Abortion is a woman's right', and 'Abortion is healthcare, not a crime', as they stand outside the Maltese law courts in Valletta, Malta, Wednesday, June 15, 2022. A coalition of abortion rights activists filed a legal protest in Malta's courts on Wednesday demanding the legalization of abortion in the island nation that is the only European Union member where the procedure is criminalized. (AP Photo/Kevin Schembri Orland)

FDA advisory panel backs COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, the last unprotected group

FDA advisory panel backs COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, the last unprotected group

June 15

Court hears arguments on Arkansas trans youth treatment ban

A federal appeals court panel is considering whether to continue blocking Arkansas' ban on gender confirming medical care for transgender youths

June 15

High court rules against government on drug reimbursement

The Supreme Court says the federal government improperly lowered drug reimbursement payments to hospitals and clinics that serve low-income communities

June 15

FILE - The U.S. Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

FDA panel considering 2 COVID vaccines for children as young as 6 months old

ABC News medical contributor Dr. John Brownstein discusses the possibility of the FDA recommending the authorization of pediatric vaccines that would make 18 million kids eligible for COVID shots.

June 15

VIDEO: FDA panel considering 2 COVID vaccines for children as young as 6 months old

Kishida unveils plan to set up pandemic crisis control unit

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to establish an infectious disease crisis management agency to better prepare for future pandemics

June 15

Report: Fires, heat waves cause 'climate anxiety' in youth

Oregon health officials say that the impacts of climate change, including more devastating wildfires, heatwaves, drought and poor air quality, are fueling "climate anxiety" among young people

June 15

FILE - This photo provided by the Oregon Department of Forestry shows a firefighting tanker making a retardant drop over the Grandview Fire near Sisters, Ore., Sunday, July 11, 2021. The wildfire doubled in size to 6.2 square miles (16 square kilometers) Monday, forcing evacuations in the area, while the state's biggest fire continued to burn out of control, with containment not expected until November. (Oregon Department of Forestry via AP, File)

Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for gender transition treatment in teens, including starting sex hormones at age 14 and some surgeries at 15

June 15

WHO to share vaccines to stop monkeypox amid inequity fears

The World Health Organization is creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa

June 15

FILE - This 1997 image provided by the CDC during an investigation into an outbreak of monkeypox, which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), formerly Zaire, and depicts the dorsal surfaces of the hands of a monkeypox case patient, who was displaying the appearance of the characteristic rash during its recuperative stage. The World Health Organization is creating a new vaccine-sharing mechanism to stop the spiraling outbreak of monkeypox in more than 30 countries beyond Africa. (CDC via AP, File)

US abortions rise: 1 in 5 pregnancies terminated in 2020

The number and rate of U.S. abortions increased from 2017 to 2020 after a long decline

June 15

California to pay $51M over killings at veterans home

A former patient killed three mental health workers at Northern California home.

June 14

China city mayor apologizes over COVID-19 lockdown response

The mayor of a northeastern Chinese city on the North Korean border has apologized for unspecified failures related to its COVID-19 response

June 14

Residents get swabbed during mass COVID-19 testing in the Chaoyang district in Beijing, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Authorities ordered another round of three days of mass testing for residents in the Chaoyang district following the detection of hundreds coronavirus cases linked to a nightclub. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Abortion amendment moving quickly in California legislature

Democrats are moving quickly to make sure abortions are a constitutional right in California

June 14

State Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, speaks in support of proposed amendment to the state constitution that would protect the right to an abortion and contraceptives during a hearing on the measure in Sacramento, Calif., Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The bill was approved by two legislative committees. It must get a two-thirds vote in the state Assembly and Senate before June 30 to qualify for the November ballot. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

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