California health officials say pediatricians can obtain doses without going through the state’s problematic registration site. Children ages 12 to 15 may become eligible for COVID-19 vaccines next week.
More California colleges are planning to require students to get COVID-19 vaccinations. For international students, that often means only vaccines approved by the World Health Organization will be accepted, even though not all students have access to those.
The costs of personal protective equipment and disinfecting offices while seeing fewer patients have some doctors and dentists demanding that insurance companies step up.
With older adults vaccinated, doctors say a growing share of their COVID patients are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and 50s, as more contagious variants circulate among people who remain unvaccinated.