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People wait after being administered the COVISHIELD vaccine for COVID-19 at a vaccination centre in Dharavi, one of the largest slums in Asia, in Mumbai, India, Thursday, April 1, 2021. Experts say there is a pressing need for India to bolster vaccination, which started sluggishly in January. The country is expanding its drive to include everyone over 45 from Thursday, April 1. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The Latest: FDA authorizes 2 changes to Moderna’s vaccine

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In this Dec. 22, 2020, photo, provided by Richard Chung, his son Caleb Chung receives the first dose of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine or placebo as a trial participant for kids ages 12-15, at Duke University Health System in Durham, N.C. Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12. The announcement Wednesday, March 31, 2021 marks a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before the next school year. (Richard Chung via AP)

Pfizer says its COVID-19 vaccine protects younger teens

By Lauran Neergaard - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, March 17, 2021 file photo shows a sign for the Gold Spa massage business in Atlanta, the day after multiple people were killed at three massage spas in the Atlanta area. On Friday, March 19, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that on Tuesday, March 16, hours before police say Robert Aaron Long, 21, killed eight people at three Atlanta-area massage businesses, he posted on his Facebook that China was engaged in a “COVID coverup” and “AMERICANS NEED TO FIGHT BACK AGAINST CHINA, NOW.” But the post is not authentic. The fictitious image began circulating Tuesday night after Long, was identified as a suspect in the mass shootings that took place at the Atlanta-area massage businesses. (AP Photo/Ben Gray)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

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Insurance commissioner says vaccine won’t threaten coverage

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Rhode Island needs more vaccine supply to reach Biden’s goal

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A young girl looks out the window of her room in the pediatric unit of the Robert Debre hospital, in Paris, France, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, increasing numbers of children are coming apart at the seams, their mental health shredded by the traumas of deaths, sickness and job losses in their families, the disruptions of lockdowns and curfews, and a deluge of anxieties poisoning their fragile young minds. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

The Latest: US health officials warn of false positives

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New Mexico corrections officer sues over vaccination mandate

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Maryland announces plan for equitable vaccine distribution

By BRIAN WITTE - Associated Press

FDA issues emergency-use authorization for U of I COVID test

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A Palestinian medic prepares a shot of the Russian-made Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, in Gaza City, Monday, Feb. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Military gives clues of experimental nature of COVID-19 vaccine

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks after a tour of a Pfizer manufacturing site, Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Portage, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Joe Biden, at Michigan plant, says U.S. is on track to surpass 100 million vaccinations in 100 days

By David Sherfinski and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site at NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

VIRUS TODAY: Winter weather impacting U.S. vaccination plans

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, listens as President Joe Biden speaks during a visit at the Viral Pathogenesis Laboratory at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Fauci says data on vaccine efficacy in kids ages 12-17 likely coming in the fall

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

This Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

FDA approves test that can detect flu as well as COVID-19, including U.K., South African variants

By Shen Wu Tan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2020 file photo, Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Mich. Pfizer has committed to supply up to 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine this year to a World Health Organization-backed effort to get affordable vaccines to 92 poor and middle-income countries. The deal announced Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 will supply the shots to the program known as COVAX. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Pool, File)

Pfizer to supply 40M COVID-19 shots for poor countries

By LINDA A. JOHNSON - Associated Press

Israelis receive the second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021. Israel has struck a deal with Pfizer, promising to share vast troves of medical data with the drugmaker in exchange for the continued flow of its COVID-19 vaccine. Critics say the deal is raising major ethical concerns, including possible privacy violations and a deepening of the global divide between wealthy countries and poorer populations, including Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, who face long waits to be inoculated. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Los Angeles County to stop using Curative COVID-19 test

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A box of vials of the Moderna vaccine for the COVID-19 coronavirus on display during a press conference with Florida governor Ron DeSantis touting the expanded rollout of the state vaccination program, at Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital in Longwood, Fla., Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel via AP)

Steven Brandenburg, Wisconsin pharmacist who ruined COVID vaccine doses, thought they were ‘unsafe’

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Distillers that made hand sanitizer won’t face federal fine

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A person walks past a COVID-19 restrictions sign during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mississauga, Ontario, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press via AP)

Canada authorizes second vaccine to fight the pandemic

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press