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MI health officials say teens, pregnant women can get Covid vaccine
St. Luke's received 975 doses of the vaccine on Tuesday. So far, 119 health care workers have been given their first dose of vaccine, according to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. "Vaccines are the light at the end of the tunnel, but we must continue to keep each other safe during the roll-out", Moss said. The week leading up to the Christmas holiday was marked by a record number of C... [Full Article...]
FDA panel meets to decide approval for 2nd COVID-19 vaccine
The quarantined vaccine "never left the truck", Perna said during a news briefing Wednesday. "We returned them immediately back to Pfizer and we sent immediate shipments to replace those two trays". The seven-day average topped 2,500 lives lost every 24 hours for the first time this week. To date, COVID-19 deaths total more than 304,000 nationally, while the mounting case load of 16.7 million kn... [Full Article...]
Eli Lilly to acquire gene therapy specialist Prevail Therapeutics for £770 million
Watch Prevail Therapeutics trade live here. Late on Tuesday, Eli Lilly , the 144-year-old American multinational drugmaker named after its founder Col. The leading programs target patients with Parkinson's disease, neuronopathic Gaucher disease, and frontotemporal dementia. Revenue is expected to land between $26.5 billion and $28 billion in 2021. [Full Article...]
Vladimir Putin denies involvement in rival Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
He fell ill on a flight from Siberia to Moscow . Navalny , one of Putin's leading critics, was airlifted to Germany in August after collapsing on a domestic flight. Mr Navalny and his allies have repeatedly accused the Kremlin of the poisoning. "This is not an investigation, this is the legalization of material from American intelligence agencies", Putin said. [Full Article...]
Twitter to remove COVID vaccine conspiracy tweets
Italy is set to receive an initial 1.83 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and will launch its vaccination programme before the end of this year, pending approval from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). "What we need to know is what the denominator is - how many doses have been given?" Actor Sir Ian McKellen , Prue Leith, Lionel Blair and Michael Whitehall are a part of the first el... [Full Article...]
Ian McKellen receives Covid-19 vaccine
The outlet reported that the worker's symptoms abated, but returned, forcing physicians to place her on intravenous epinephrine and took her to the ICU for overnight observation. "We will enforce this policy in close consultation with local, national and global public health authorities around the world, and will strive to be iterative and transparent in our approach", the micro-blogging platfor... [Full Article...]
Twitter To Remove Or Place Warning Labels On COVID Vaccine Conspiracy Tweets
The UK's medical regulator last week advised that anyone who has a history of significant allergic reactions to medicines, food or vaccines should not receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine now in use in the country. Just a couple of days after Google announced measures to curb misinformation around COVID-19 vaccine (just like it did with the coronavirus itself), micro blogging platform Twitter als... [Full Article...]
'EXTREMELY SERIOUS': Ontario hospitals call for four-week lockdown in hot zones
Health Minister Christine Elliott has announced the province's numbers Wednesday morning. Medical labs in the province completed 57,091 tests in the past 24 hours, marking a positivity rate of 4.6 per cent. Most Canadians should be vaccinated by September 2021, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised. "Now more than ever, let's keep up our vigilance". [Full Article...]