The latest June must be a "national month of action" for Americans to get vaccines, President Biden said in remarks at the White House on Wednesday. The country is about 20 million people shy of his July goal to have 70 percent of adults get at least one shot of coronavirus vaccine. To encourage that, a blizzard of vaccine incentives are incoming: chances to win cruise tickets, video game consoles and flights, among other free goodies. The White House is also launching community efforts to support vaccination, such as a campaign to enlist 1,000 Black-owned barbershops and beauty salons as vaccine clinics. The "Shots at the Shop" program will involve training by the University of Maryland's Center for Health Equity and $1,000 stipends from the SheaMoisture company. Some U.S. parents are perplexed and worried about what precautions their children need to take this summer. Navigating the advice for going maskless can be fraught when unvaccinated kids are involved. As one parent of an at-risk child explained, his first reaction to relaxed masking recommendations was "to think about the mistrust we have for some people out there." Many have turned to pediatricians for their opinion in the absence of specific CDC guidance for unvaccinated kids. Millions of vaccine doses will soon be on their way from the United States to Latin America and other regions, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken offered few additional details at his news conference in Costa Rica on Tuesday – he did not say which countries were first in line to get the vaccines or when the doses would arrive. A new, more transmissible coronavirus variant is spreading in Vietnam. To slow transmission, the government will attempt to test all 9 million residents of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam's largest city. A two-week lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City began Monday. The variant spreading there has genetic sequences resembling two other variants, one first detected in the United Kingdom and the other in India. Brazil will host the Copa América soccer tournament, the country's president insisted, despite high coronavirus cases and political protests. President Jair Bolsonaro told supporters on Tuesday the matter was "all decided" on his end. The soccer tournament was planned to be held in Colombia and Argentina, but unrest in Colombia and a severe outbreak in Argentina prompted organizers to look for a new host country. Other important news Subscriptions services became wildly popular during the pandemic, available for gourmet meals, chocolate deliveries and car washes. To see punk band Teenage Bottlerocket perform in Florida, tickets cost $999.99 – but vaccinated concertgoers will be charged only $18. Here's one man's story of trying to work his way back into Colombia's middle class, which shrank by 1.6 million people in the pandemic. |
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