Florida and California have taken dramatically different approaches to addressing the spread of the coronavirus, but both states have seen key metrics improve in recent weeks. California Governor Gavin Newsom imposed stricter …
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The World Health Organization has given the Oxford / AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine an emergency use list, paving the way for its more widespread global implementation, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on …
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COLUMBIA, SC (AP) – South Carolina public health workers are tasked with keeping the state safe for 143 years, since lawmakers created a health board in 1878 after a yellow fever outbreak …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities scrambled to prevent a third wave of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly infectious UK variant. …
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second-most populous state, Victoria, entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities scrambled to prevent a third wave of COVID-19 cases caused by the highly infectious UK variant. …
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The nation’s top public health agency said on Friday that in-person schooling can safely resume with masks, social distancing and other strategies, and vaccinating teachers, while important, is not a prerequisite for …
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Moderna permission to increase the number of COVID-19 vaccine doses per vial from 10 to 14, the New York Times reports. Moderna did not …
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The list of mysterious coronavirus-related symptoms continues to grow. The latest unexpected side effect happened to an 86-year-old woman in Italy, whose fingers turned black with gangrene when COVID-19 caused severe clotting, …
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CHICAGO – At a makeshift vaccination center at a Chicago safety net hospital, a patient services assistant leads an elderly woman with a cane into a curtained cubicle. “Here, sit right here,” …
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By Alexander Winning, Olivia Kumwenda-Mtambo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The African Union (AU) will not “walk away” from AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, but will instead target its use in countries that have not reported …
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