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UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 2: The U.S. Supreme Court building is seen at sunset in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Two differing views of the Covid pandemic on display at Supreme Court

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By Joan Biskupic, The two visions of pandemic America have arrived at the US Supreme Court. To the Biden administration, this is a life-or-death moment. Administration lawyers defending a new workplace vaccination requirement highlight the human toll of the deadly virus, a collapsing health care system and the “grave danger” of Covid-19 transmission among workers. Businesses

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Students arrive to Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Chicago, Illinois on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, the first day after winter break. Chicago Public School students returned to in-person learning amid controversy over whether there should be a return to remote learning amid surging COVID-19 numbers. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Chicago Public Schools cancels classes after union votes to go virtual

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By Theresa Waldrop and Omar Jimenez, The Chicago Teachers Union voted to teach virtually rather than in the classroom, triggering a cancellation of classes Wednesday which the school district leadership warned would happen if the union vote passed. CPS, the third-largest school district in the country, resumed in-person learning Monday in conditions union leaders described as unsafe

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NEW YORK, NY - JUNE 05: A 13-year-old newly vaccinateda against COVID-19 shows his bandage at a pop-up vaccination site on June 5, 2021 in the Jackson Heights neighborhood in the Queens borough in New York City. With the Pfizer vaccine approved for children as young as 12 years old, vaccine eligibility has been extended to teenagers and pre-teens in all 50 states. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

CDC backs FDA’s decision to reduce time between primary series and booster dose of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine

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By Deidre McPhillips, The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday expanded the emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine boosters to children ages 12 to 15. The agency also shortened the time needed before receiving a booster shot from at least six months after completion of the initial series to at least five months,

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