Covid News: Amid Britain’s Delta-Driven Surge, Health Minister Resigns Over Affair With some U.S. parents forbidding the vaccine, defiant teenagers take matters into their own hands. Britain’s health minister, accused of violating restrictions, resigns amid a Delta-driven surge. Health officials have asked for extra doses from Australia’s federal government, and demand for the vaccines has skyrocketed after months of complacency. Charisse fears the shot could have an effect on her daughter’s reproductive system (a misperception that public health officials have repeatedly refuted). Garfield County, in eastern Montana, illustrates some of what health officials are up against.

Source: New York Times June 26, 2021 13:50 UTC