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NEW YORK, NY., MAY 18, 2021— Dr. Maura Boldrini is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute -- Kolb Research Building, lately she's been studying the brains of people who died of COVID-19 to better understand how the respiratory disease causes neurological symptoms. Dr. Maura Boldrini in her lab examining Covid-19 brain matter slides. (Kirk McKoy / Los Angles Times)

Column One: How does COVID-19 change the brain? This scientist is finding out

Dr. Maura Boldrini is studying the brains of people who died of COVID-19 to better understand how it causes neurological symptoms.
FILE - The Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. on May 1, 2018. Britain has granted a conditional authorization to Merck's coronavirus antiviral, the first pill shown to successfully treat COVID-19. It is the first country to OK the treatment, although it was not immediately clear how quickly the pill would be available. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Britain becomes the first nation to authorize Merck’s COVID-19 pill

LOS ANGELES, CA NOVEMBER 3, 2021 - Five-year-old Alahna Alleyne is comforted by her Father Samuel Alleyne after she received the children's dose of the Pfizer Covid vaccine from RN Susan Santner at Children's Hospital Los Angeles Wednesday morning, Nov. 3, 2021. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Biden calls vaccine for kids ‘giant step’ to defeat pandemic

This October 2021 photo provided by Pfizer shows boxes of kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine.

U.S. gives final clearance to COVID-19 shots for kids 5 to 11

FILE - A protester gathers containers that look like OxyContin bottles at an anti-opioid demonstration in front of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services headquarters in Washington on April 5, 2019. A California judge has ruled for top drug manufacturers as local governments seek billions of dollars to cover their costs from the nation’s opioid epidemic. Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson issued a tentative ruling Monday, Nov. 1, 2021, that said the governments hadn't proven the pharmaceutical companies used deceptive marketing to increase unnecessary opioid prescriptions and create a public nuisance. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Orange County judge rules in favor of drugmakers in California opioid crisis lawsuit

An elderly man receives a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination campaign at a community health center in Tangerang on the outskirts of Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. Biotechnology company Novavax said Monday that Indonesia has given the world's first emergency use authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine, which uses a different technology than currently used shots. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Indonesia is first to greenlight Novavax COVID-19 vaccine

FILE - Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 1, 2021. As deadlines loom for military and defense civilians to get mandated COVID-19 vaccines, senior leaders must now wrestle with the fate of those who flatly refuse the shots or are seeking exemptions, and how to make sure they are treated fairly and equally. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Military weighs penalties for those who refuse COVID vaccine

FILE - In this Aug. 28, 2021, file photo, Mayra Navarrete, 13, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from registered nurse, Noleen Nobleza at a clinic set up in the parking lot of CalOptima in Orange, Calif. With more than 40 million doses of coronavirus vaccines available, U.S. health authorities said they're confident both seniors and other vulnerable Americans seeking booster shots and parents anticipating approval of initial shots for young children will have easy access. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

A COVID-19 vaccine is now available for young kids. Should they get it?

WILMINGTON, CA - JULY 27: Nursing student Brittany Corlyn is drawing medicine into a syringe at a vaccination clinic at the Providence Wellness and Activity Center on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 in Wilmington, CA. Escalating COVID-19 cases are threatening a new surge in Southern California . Providence is holding three-day COVID-19 vaccine clinic Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, July 27-29 in Wilmington for people 12 years old and up. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

COVID-19 vaccines more protective than past infection, study shows

The coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, shown in purple, infects a cell, colored in green.

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This October 2021 photo provided by Pfizer shows kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Puurs, Belgium. Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may be getting closer as government advisers on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2021 began deliberating whether there’s enough evidence that the shots are safe and effective for 5- to 11-year-olds. (Pfizer via AP)

Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for young kids clears FDA hurdle

The shots could come as soon as next week after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention makes recommendations on which youngsters should get vaccinated.
Is it safe to go trick-or-treating during the pandemic? (AP Illustration/Peter Hamlin)

Is it OK to go trick-or-treating during the pandemic?

Colin Sweeney, 12, gets a shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine as his mother Nicole pats his shoulder.

News Analysis: It’s harder to justify COVID vaccine for children if pandemic’s end is near

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. According to a study released in The Lancet Global Health on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021, Fluvoxamine, a cheap antidepressant, reduced the need for hospitalization among high-risk adults with COVID-19. (NIAID-RML via AP)

Cheap antidepressant shows promise treating early COVID-19

This October 2021 photo provided by Pfizer shows kid-size doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in Puurs, Belgium. Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may be getting closer as government advisers on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2021 began deliberating whether there’s enough evidence that the shots are safe and effective for 5- to 11-year-olds. (Pfizer via AP)

FDA advisors back Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for young kids

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Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 shot works for kids 6 to 11

It’s OK to mix and match COVID-19 booster shoots. Which one should I get?

Explainer: Is it time to get a COVID-19 booster? Which one?

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FILE - Workers place a box containing doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V into a refrigerated container after unloading it from a plane, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 13, 2021. On Monday, the U.S. will implement a new air travel policy to allow in foreign citizens who have completed a course of a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization. That leaves people in Mexico, Hungary, Russia and elsewhere who received the non-approved Russian Sputnik V vaccine or the China-produced CanSino vaccine ineligible to board U.S.-bound flights. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Foreigners scramble to get U.S.- and WHO-authorized vaccinations as travel resumes

As the U.S. opens to fully vaccinated foreign travelers, some are scrambling to get U.S.- and WHO-approved COVID-19 shots to meet the requirement.

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