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Biden gets coronavirus vaccine live on TV
Biden will inherit the logistical challenges of distributing the vaccine to hundreds of millions of Americans, as well as the task of persuading people who worry its development was rushed for political reasons to take it. Much of the fate of Biden's White House agenda will hinge on the outcome of a pair of Senate runoff elections in Georgia on January 5 that will determine which party controls th... [Full Article...]
Moderna vaccine inoculations begin in US
Biden's vaccination came one week after the first doses of the vaccine were injected into health care workers, and days after the US Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for a second coronavirus vaccine . I expect a (at) EU Commission decision by this evening, " she said. "I want to help make sure others don't get it, especially those who are most vulnerable". [Full Article...]
Know which countries have confirmed new strain of virus
Dr Susan Hopkins, Test and Trace and PHE Joint Medical Advisor, said, "There is now no evidence that this strain causes more severe illness, although it is being detected in a wide geography especially where there are increased cases being detected". [Full Article...]
Looks to expand COVID-19 vaccine program
A nasal sample is processed at a pop-up COVID-19 testing site on the Dalhousie University campus in Halifax on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020. Dr. Robert Strang, Nova Scotia's chief medical officer of health, had an important message for all the kids during Monday's COVID-19 news briefing. [Full Article...]
BC reports 1,667 new COVID-19 infections over the weekend
THIRTY-FIVE new confirmed cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in Limerick, as a top health official has said: "We're clearly in a third wave". One-hundred twenty-two people with confirmed cases of COVID-19 were admitted to Washington state hospitals on December 2, the most recent date with complete data. [Full Article...]
Covid: New shielding advice in Wales 'under discussion'
Plans to allow five days of relaxed restrictions allowing up to two families to form a festive bubble have also been cut short and will now only apply for Christmas Day. "Only a proportion" of the Welsh tests go to the two Lighthouse labs now able to detect the new variant, he added. He told the press conference there are more than 600 cases of the new variant in Wales but this is a "almost ce... [Full Article...]
BioNTech confident vaccine effective against new Covid strain
Tensions are high as vaccine rollouts continue across Canada and as fears mount over whether the new mutated virus is in this country, which health experts have said is likely. As you'll know, much of the year has been spent with eyes and ears on potential news of a vaccine. The main worry is that the new variant is 40-70 per cent more transmissible. [Full Article...]
Virginia’s Lee statue has been removed from US Capitol
A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is removed from the U.S. Capitol's crypt, in Washington, on December 21, 2020 . The civil rights icon, then 16 years old, led a student walkout in 1951 at a high school in Virginia to protest the unfair conditions of the all-Black school compared to those of the nearby all-White school. [Full Article...]