Fauci worried about uptick in COVID-19 hospitalization among fully vaccinated

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases says he's concerned over the uptick in hospitalizations among people fully vaccinated for COVID-19.

US to invest billions in COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing to boost world supply

The Biden administration is making billions of dollars available to drugmakers to scale up domestic production of COVID-19 vaccines to share with the world.

Fauci says COVID-19 vaccine boosters will help avoid winter ‘double whammy’

Dr. Anthony Fauci believes Americans should get a COVID-19 booster shot to avoid a possible winter “double whammy” of the more infectious delta variant and waning immunity among the vaccinated.

Booster shots take the spotlight as the holidays approach
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Dr. David Zich from Northwestern Medicine talks us through the latest COVID-19 headlines surfacing in the medical community.

Sutter Health gives 14 pediatric patients wrong dose of COVID vaccine

Sutter Health pediatricians are looking into what went wrong when some children at their Antioch office got double the amount of COVID vaccine that they would normally have gotten in a single shot. 

Pfizer asks FDA for emergency approval of COVID-19 pill, Paxlovid

Pfizer is submitting its experimental pill for COVID-19 for U.S. authorization, setting the stage for a likely launch of the promising therapy in coming weeks.

Vaccinated families can ‘feel good’ about holiday gatherings, Fauci says

"If you get vaccinated and your family's vaccinated, you can feel good about enjoying a typical Thanksgiving, Christmas with your family and close friends," Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

Chicago's chief medical officer discusses vaccination push ahead of holidays
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Dr. Jennifer Seo, chief medical officer at the Chicago Department of Public Health, talks about the city's push to get more people vaccinated ahead of the holidays to avoid a potential resurgence of the coronavirus.

Unvaccinated people put on lockdown in Austria; they can only go to school, work or get groceries

The lockdown affects about 2 million people in the Alpine country of 8.9 million people. It doesn't apply to children under the age of 12 because they cannot yet officially get vaccinated.

Dozens of Chicago Public School students get vaccinated on 'Vaccine Awareness Day'

"Yeah I'm glad [I got the shot]," 11-year-old Jacob Villasenor said, adding he did it because he wants to stop COVID-19 "once and for all" and to help the people who are sick.

CPS cancels class Friday for Vaccination Awareness Day
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More than 330,000 Chicago Public Schools students got the day off on Friday in an effort to encourage them to get their coronavirus vaccination.

CPS closed Friday for 'Vaccine Awareness Day'

Chicago Public Schools and the city teamed up on Friday to make it easier to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

COVID-19 vaccine distribution rolls out for kids ages 5-11
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Dr. Shikha Jain from UI Health joins Good Day Chicago to talk us through the latest headlines coming from the coronavirus pandemic.

Matthew McConaughey says he is against mandating COVID-19 vaccines for children

Matthew McConaughey says he, his wife, and his 90-year-old mother have gotten the COVID-19 vaccine. But the actor said as of "right now," he is not getting his three children vaccinated. "I couldn't mandate having to vaccinate the younger kids," he said. "I still want to find out more information."

About 900,000 kids got COVID-19 vaccine in first week, White House says

The White House says roughly 900,000 kids aged 5-11 will have received their first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine in just their first week of eligibility.