COVID-19 vaccines

With multiple COVID-19 vaccines now available, the differences in their efficacy rates can be confusing — and misleading. If you’re wondering if one vaccine is better than another — and whether you should hold out for one with higher efficacy — TikTok’s favorite scientist Dr. Noc is here to clear things up. As he explained to LX News, vaccines are...

Even with vaccine distribution ramping up across the country, there is still good reason to remain on guard against the coronavirus. Infectious disease physician Dr. Dena Grayson flagged a troubling trend in children who catch COVID-19 — specifically a worrying rise in a dangerous multisystem inflammatory syndrome called MIS-C.

Health officials in Harris County scrambled Monday to administer more than 5,000 COVID-19 vaccines after a deadly winter storm caused a power outage in a facility storing the doses.

With new, more contagious variants of the coronavirus circulating, health experts are adjusting their recommendations for face masks. NBC News medical correspondent Dr. John Torres joined LX News to explain why you should make sure your face mask is well-fitted and double up.

On Monday, three pharmacies on Long Island were overwhelmed as more than 1,000 people were trying to get their shots, and a scramble to stock up on vaccines has affected both individuals and vaccination locations. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

New Jersey residents began to sign up to get their COVID-19 vaccinations over the weekend, except they aren’t supposed to be able to do that unless they’re healthcare personnel, law enforcement, fire professionals or first responders. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan reports.

Gov. Phil Murphy toured what’s being called a vaccine megasite at a former Sears store in Morris County on Friday where health officials hope to vaccinate more than 2,000 people per day in coming weeks and months. Several first responders received the vaccine Friday, including Thomas Lyons, an EMT with the Pequannock Township fire and rescue squad. “It’s been...

NJ begins vaccinations for officers and firefighters.

Mega COVID-19 vaccination sites are opening up across the Garden State. Tracie Strahan reports.

Amid the rollout frustration nationally, vaccine distribution and administration has become a local point of contention — and the first subject in some time on which Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio are at outright odds.Tracie Strahan and Katherine Creag report.

A recent study by the de Beaumont Foundation found that heath officials need to change the language they use to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine in order to build the public’s confidence in taking it. LX News talked to de Beaumont Foundation CEO Brian Castrucci, who shared four tips you can use when talking to vaccine skeptics in your life.

The race to vaccinate millions of Americans is off to a slower, messier start than public health officials and leaders of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed had expected

Studies show there is still a good deal of mistrust in the coronavirus vaccines as the first wave of shots is rolling out to millions of Americans across the country. Dr. Khalilah Gates and Dr. Melissa Simon, both of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, and who have both already received a first dose of the vaccine, talked to LX...