Medical
Boris Johnson announces stricter COVID-19 measures for London and south
He said on Wednesday it would be "frankly inhuman" to ban Christmas . The rest of England will also see the Christmas "bubble" policy - allowing up to three household to meet up over the holiday period - severely curtailed, applying on Christmas Day only. [Full Article...]
Covid vaccine: US FDA probing 5 allergic reactions after Pfizer shot
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Friday that doses of the vaccine were waiting to be shipped in Portage and she could not get a straight answer from the Trump administration about why MI - as well as many other states - were only receiving a fraction of what they were supposed to get. [Full Article...]
CDC Issues New Guidelines for COVID-19 Vaccine Side-effects
Operation Warp Speed's COO also said that federal USA authorities have so far distributed 2.9 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses. The Department of Defense had said it was ready to immediately ship 5.9 million doses of the Moderna product to 3,000 locations nationwide once approved. [Full Article...]
United: CDC looks into death of man on flight from Florida
Paramedics transported the individual to a local hospital where he was pronounced deceased, the carrier said. While first responders tended to the man, flight crew members overheard his wife telling the healthcare workers that her husband had been experiencing symptoms consistent with COVID-19. [Full Article...]
Some Coronavirus Restrictions Have Been Reintroduced in Greater Sydney
The state of New South Wales (NSW) recorded 30 more locally acquired daily COVID-19 cases on Saturday night, and an additional six cases in returned travelers in hotel quarantine, making the total number of cases related to the cluster in Northern Beaches to 68, according to the state's health authorities. [Full Article...]
FDA authorizes Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use
More than a dozen states said they were told by the federal government that next week's shipment of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would be 20-to-40% less than originally projected. The announcement of the miscommunication comes less than 24 hours after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. [Full Article...]
Prison COVID outbreak expands to staff in Kingston
A rise in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks in the region means that they meet the restrictions for an orange level restriction plan. KFL&A Public Health would like to remind everyone to social distance and follow public health guidelines over the holiday season. [Full Article...]
CDC reports record-breaking 81,000 drug overdose deaths this year
More than 81,000 drug overdose deaths were recorded in the U.S. in the year to May, the highest number ever in a 12-month period, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ). "These numbers include the first three months of the pandemic, when increasing jurisdictions were in lockdown, showing thousands more deaths per month than the same time period previous year". [Full Article...]