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The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Monday for use in children ages 12 to 15. The vaccine, which had been previously authorized for people 16 and older, is the first COVID vaccine to receive approval for use in younger teens and adolescents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention backed the plan in a unanimous vote on Wednesday. Yahoo News Medical Contributor Dr. Kavita Patel explains why parents should consider getting their children 12 and… Source link

HARVARD, Mass. — Caroline Charland, a 12-year-old girl from Harvard, is a finalist for a national Google competition. The seventh-grader illustrated a book on how kids can handle COVID-19 stress. Caroline has now qualified for the national “Doodle for Google” contest. If she wins, she receives a college scholarship and her school receives a $50,000 technology package from Google. It’s a public vote. Voting ends Friday at midnight. Download the free Boston 25 News app for up-to-the-minute… Source link

The Daily Beast Mass Grave Dug on Banks of Ganges for 100 Possible COVID Victims Found Floating Down River Danish Siddiqui via ReutersIn a macabre twist to a situation that is already too dire to comprehend, authorities in the Indian states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh have had to call in excavators to dig a mass grave after nearly 100 bloated and decomposing bodies were found floating in the Ganges River. Scammers Sell Fire Extinguishers as Oxygen Cylinders to Dying COVID Patients in… Source link

Dylan Bundy deserves your patience After getting lit up over the weekend, Bundy sits with an ugly 5.03 ERA. The poor outing came against a Dodgers offense that entered with the second-best wRC+ in baseball, and the game featured a whopping 25 runs scored. Bundy still has a 1.14 WHIP, ranks top-25 in CSW and is in the top 10% of the league in fastball spin rate and Hard Hit%, so you should absolutely add him if he was dropped in your fantasy league. He has a 3.09 expected ERA and has had to… Source link

Rattlesnake Elementary has a Google Digital Citizenship Curriculum and Robin Nygren, a school librarian, gave students the optional assignment of creating a Doodle to submit to the competition. Support Local Journalism Your membership makes our reporting possible. {{featured_button_text}} Selections are made from a panel of… Source link

The New York Times Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Resist GOP Voting Laws Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. The approach is aimed at persuading… Source link

Future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols is being released by the Los Angeles Angels, the team announced on Thursday. The news was first reported by MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand.  Pujols is officially being designated for assignment, which means he’s being immediately removed from the team’s 40-man roster as a prelude to his eventual release. No reason has been given by the Angels or Pujols himself, but it may stem from an incident that reportedly happened on Wednesday.  In a statement, Angels owner… Source link

The New York Times ‘Turning the Corner’: U.S. COVID Outlook Reaches Most Hopeful Point Yet After weeks of coronavirus patients flooding emergency rooms in Michigan, the worst COVID-19 hot spot in the nation, hospitalizations are finally falling. On some recent days, entire states, including Wisconsin and West Virginia, have reported zero new coronavirus deaths — a brief but promising respite from the onslaught of the past year. And in New York and Chicago, officials encouraged by the recent… Source link

Yahoo Life Videos Motherless Mother’s Day: How one woman has created a healing space for those who grieve Every May, companies blast out commercials urging people to buy gifts for Mother’s day. The day is meant to honor the role mothers play in our lives, but for those who have suffered a loss, it can be a painful reminder of the void that remains. Alicia Forneret lost her mother in 2016, and feels the weight of the holiday every year. “I know how challenging it is to get to this weekend,… Source link