Another factor making Moderna's shot more accessible for smaller and harder-to-reach vaccination sites, Gen. Perna said, is the shipment sizes. People ages 75 and older and frontline essential workers should be next in line to receive coronavirus vaccines , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended at a Sunday meeting. [Full Article...]
There is no evidence at the moment that it interferes with diagnostic tests'. But it is thought this is the first strain that will be investigated in such detail by PHE. The discovery this month of a new more easily transmissible form of the virus in Britain is a particular concern since several hundred people typically arrive at each of India's major airports from Britain every day. [Full Article...]
Texas will ignore the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's guidance on who should receive the coronavirus vaccine first, opting to provide doses for the elderly before essential workers. "We know that nursing home residents are the highest-risk people when they get COVID-19 but also the highest-risk of being exposed due to their congregate living situation", said Dr. [Full Article...]
Meanwhile, yet another new strain of Covid-19 has been reported in the UK. Dr Henry said that the country's curve in COVID-19 cases has gone from "gradual to nearly a vertical direction" while the five-day moving average is up nearly 100% from last week. [Full Article...]
Cardona, 45, would also be another Latino addition to Biden's top team, after advocacy groups urged the former vice president to appoint Hispanic Americans to senior roles. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will formally introduce Connecticut Education Commissioner Miguel Cardona as their nominee for secretary of education this morning in an event in Wilmington, De... [Full Article...]
Along with a similar shot from Pfizer-BioNTech, the U.S.is working to ramp up the largest vaccination effort in its history to eventually defeat the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed almost 320,000 people in the USA and upended life worldwide. [Full Article...]
However, according to Anderson, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, wasn't the only cause of the higher death count in the U.S. this year. In 2019, thanks to declines in heart disease and cancer deaths, the overall mortality rate of the nation dropped a little. [Full Article...]
Research and military stations in Antarctica, which are among the most remote in the world, had gone to extraordinary lengths in recent months to keep the virus out, canceling tourism, scaling back activities and staff and locking down facilities. [Full Article...]