COVID Vaccinations

This month marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The shutdowns have long since ended, but the impacts on society are still being understood. Beyond the deaths and long-term illness, the pandemic disrupted how we work, learn and even eat. The New York Public News Network is marking the anniversary with a special series. WAMC’s Capital Region Bureau Chief Dave Lucas revisits some of the people who appeared in his earliest COVID stories.

Reformulated COVID-19 booster shots will soon be widely available as winter nears and coronavirus cases tick up.

Students are beginning to head back to the classroom for the fall semester, as new COVID variants emerge.

Health departments in northern New York are beginning to hold clinics for people to get the latest COVID booster shot.

Vermont Governor Phil Scott and members of his administration continued emphasizing the importance of vaccinations and boosters during the state’s weekly COVID-19 briefing Tuesday.

One of the key elements that make a sport a sport is the rules. You want to shoot hoops from a ladder in your backyard? Go for it. Climb right up there and slam that ball down. But keep it in the backyard. Because if you try it in the WNBA, there will be consequences.

According to the North Country Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Willsboro, the New York state Department of Health will hold a vaccination pod at Clinton Community College on Wednesday from 10 to 7.

Gregory Zuckerman's new book "A Shot to Save the World: The Inside Story of the Life-or-Death Race for a COVID-19 Vaccine" (Portfolio) takes readers inside the top-secret laboratories, corporate clashes, and high-stakes government negotiations that led to effective shots.

A community vaccine booster clinic has been set up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in response to high COVID-19 rates in the region.