Wuhan, China (AP) – The WHO team of international researchers arriving in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday hopes to find clues to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Confidentiality …
Read More »According to experts, Brazil failed its vaccination plan
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) – Like many Brazilian public health experts, Drs. Regina Flazino spent most of 2020 watching as the COVID-19 with the dreaded Brazil. When the opportunity came to join …
Read More »Online sign-ups complicate vaccine rollout for older people
Denver (AP) – Howard Jones, 83, was on the phone three to four hours each day trying to sign up for a coronavirus vaccine. Jones, who lives alone in Colorado Springs, does …
Read More »As the epidemic worsens, most US states oppose sanctions
PHOENIX (AP) – As the US goes through the deadliest phase of a coronovirus outbreak yet, governors and local officials in hard-hit parts of the country are showing less willingness to impose …
Read More »COVID-19 herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite vaccines
Geneva (AP) – The chief scientist of the World Health Organization warned that even though many countries are starting vaccination programs to prevent COVID-19, herd immunity is very low this year. In …
Read More »California is desperate, but the volunteer health corps reduces
Sacramento, California. (AP) – California is in dire need of more medical personnel in facilities treated by coronovirus patients, but almost no help is coming from the volunteer program that Gov. Gavin …
Read More »Study shows that Pfizer works against vaccine virus variants
New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may protect against a mutation found in two more-infectious forms of coronovirus practiced in Britain and South Africa. The study was preliminary and did not …
Read More »Study shows that Pfizer works against vaccine virus variants
New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine may protect against a mutation found in two more-infectious forms of coronovirus practiced in Britain and South Africa. The study was preliminary and did not …
Read More »Health workers nap as vaccine rollout hits
The desperately awaited vaccination campaign against coronovirus in the US has been running in resistance since an unexpected quarter: astonishing numbers of health care workers who have witnessed death and grief before …
Read More »Pandemic hunts new year as a vaccine for virus development
LONDON (AP) – Despite increased access to the vaccine, January is severe around the world as coronovirus resurfaces and reinvents itself from the UK to California in Japan, filling hospitals and posing …
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