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Some of the 33 million adults in the nation who remain unvaccinated against COVID-19 may believe that the vaccines are risky. Medical systems around the country have debunked myths about their risk. Whether vaccine resistance is attributed to the speed at which the vaccines were developed, reported vaccine side effects, or breakthrough infections, those who remain on the vaccine sidelines are exposing themselves to much higher risk with the virus than the vaccine itself may pose.  

The worsening trend is another hurdle in the nation's supply chain crisis as the ports in LA and Long Beach attempt to rebound after a backlog caused largely by COVID-19.

CHAMPAIGN — At this point in the calendar last year, a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament didn’t seem likely for Illinois.

For Americans, COVID's global supply chain disruption had remained more abstraction or inconvenience than potentially life-threatening reality. But that all changed when blood, platelets and plasma were added to the roster of critically short commodities, thanks to COVID's rampaging Omicron variant.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services has requested federal assistance as hospitals across the state are seeing a record number of patients and dealing with strained capacity.