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Healthcare workers are in line to get the COVID-19 vaccine, as Alabama plans to give injections as early as next week. But even among medical workers, some say they won’t take it. Rebecca Willis, a nursing professor at Jefferson State Community College Ledge in Birmingham, said vaccine companies have not …

A secondary school in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Katsina was attacked by bandits armed with rifles late Friday night, police said, and two locals told Reuters hundreds of students were missing. Police spokesman Gambo Issa said in a statement that the gunmen stormed a government science secondary school in Kankara …

A team of scientists using a genetic sequence found that 205,000 to 300,000 cases of coronavirus in the US were linked to a “superspider” medical conference in Boston in late February. The convention was previously thought to have involved about 20,000 cases in the Boston metro area, but researchers say …

Researchers have discovered a new superhighway network to travel through the solar system that was previously possible. Such routes could run comets and asteroids nearby Jupiter To Neptune100 astronomical units in less than a decade and less than a century. They can be used to send spacecraft compared to our …

Nurse Chris Kuntz, left, and Sara Nelson 8 Sept. Inside the Bismarck Event Center in Bismarck, ND, where vehicles were deployed for the Covid-19 test. Infection in Dakota is growing faster than anywhere else in the country. (Tom Strom / Bismarck Tribune) As coronavirus cases have increased, public safety measures …