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Poland has bought over 60 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, PM says
NHS Dumfries and Galloway Chief Executive Jeff Ace said: "Work has been taking place to ensure our readiness locally to deliver a vaccine to provide protection against COVID, and this announcement means we can now take that forward". "I'm so pleased we are hopefully coming towards the end of this pandemic and I am delighted to be doing my bit by having the vaccine, I feel it is my duty to do so an... [Full Article...]
Moderna plans 100 million Covid vaccine doses in early 2021
Moderna also confirmed that it expects to have 20 million vaccine doses available in the U.S. by the end of 2020. For all countries outside the United States, production will take place in Switzerland. "At the 100-μg dose, mRNA-1273 produced high levels of binding and neutralizing antibodies that declined slightly over time, as expected, but they remained elevated in all participants 3 months af... [Full Article...]
First vaccines arrive from China as questions about efficacy, safety remain
Indonesia received its first shipment of coronavirus vaccine from China on Sunday, President Joko Widodo said, as the government prepares a mass inoculation program. Penny Lukito, head of the Food and Drug Control Agency, estimated that the Sinovac vaccine would obtain emergency use authorization from the agency by the third or fourth week of January, after the agency evaluates interim results fro... [Full Article...]
Vaccine is delivered to Shropshire hospital as huge effort against Covid starting
Today, the first people in Wales will receive the vaccine. Across England, 1,250 primary care networks have been asked to designate a single practice to administer vaccines in their area which would be capable of delivering vaccines from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week, and on bank holidays if needed. [Full Article...]
Pennsylvania reports almost 15000 new covid cases, 111 deaths over 2 days
Sunday capped a week where the county added 314 total cases. In other COVID-19 testing news, this weekend LMH Health handed out free saliva tests on Massachusetts Street as part of its CARES Act funding for surveillance testing. The Times Observer reported on Saturday that Coroner Melissa Zydonik confirmed three COVID-related deaths in the county last week. Hospitalizations continue to rise in... [Full Article...]
Tom Brady's business getting near $1 million PPP loan is shameful
Though reports of Brady's PPP loan was initially revealed in July, the amount was unknown. Previous to the Small Enterprise Administration knowledge, TB12 Inc. PPP loans were meant to support small businesses that were negatively affected due to the pandemic. Businesses had to apply in order to receive a loan. [Full Article...]
Canada to receive 249,000 COVID-19 vaccines this month: Trudeau
Trudeau said that if approval comes by the end of the week, Canadians will begin getting vaccinated next week. "It has been a hard year, and we are not out of this crisis yet", Trudeau said Monday at a news conference in Ottawa. The prime minister noted that 14 distribution sites will be ready this week for the Pfizer vaccine in urban centres with one in each province and two in the four largest... [Full Article...]
COVID-19 outbreak at Fraser Valley mink farm infects eight people
This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the spherical particles of the new coronavirus, colorized blue, from the first U.S. Large culls of mink on fur farms have also been carried out in Spain and the Netherlands. The site has been inspected by Fraser Health and WorkSafeBC and we continue to work with the site on their COVID... [Full Article...]