Quarantine and border officials, frontline health workers, aged care and disability care workers, and residents in aged and disability care, will be vaccinated first. "I think we're going to learn a lot in the next three to five days". There will be up to 1,000 hubs set up then to allow more people to get the jab. [Full Article...]
Data shows that two more patients have died from Covid-19 at the Shrewsbury and Telford NHS Hospital Trust (SaTH). "As a result, the NHS is now facing a ideal storm of enormous workload and staff burnout and more cases expected as we see the impact of Christmas on infection rates". [Full Article...]
Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . TS: How different were identical twins from each other? Identical twins are important research subjects because they are thought to have minimal genetic differences. "Mutations also accumulate in the eggs of the mother and sperm of the father". Not only were scientists able to see which mutations appeared in which twin, the results showe... [Full Article...]
But it was reassuring, given questions of whether the virus could mutate to defeat the shots on which the world has pinned its hopes. It is clear from the schedule that by July this year our country has to receive a total of 1,000,000 doses of the Pfizer/ BioNTech vaccine and 500,000 doses of Moderna. [Full Article...]
Anthony Facui , the nation's leading infectious disease expert told NPR that he expects things to get worse in the coming weeks . "So we believe things will get worse as we get into January". Globally, 88,652,226 coronavirus cases and 1,909,621 deaths have been recorded over the course of the pandemic, per worldometers data. Tokyo will begin a month-long lockdown on January 9. [Full Article...]
But Haven employees were informed on Monday that the project would be shut down in February, with most employees being moved to one of the three founding companies, CNBC reported. In his email to employees, Dimon said "we're going to take insights we've gained through our joint-venture and build on them". Thurston told CNN Business that "moving forward, Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan ... [Full Article...]
Canada's airline and travel sectors have been cast aside and ignored by the government since the beginning of the pandemic. "We're very concerned about the confusion that's going to occur and the disjointedness of implementation that's going occur". [Full Article...]
The price paid per share is a 41% premium over Change Healthcare's closing price Tuesday of $18.24, reported Bloomberg . Optum offers data, software and services to insurance firms, physicians, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies. Change Healthcare, which is 20 per cent owned by Blackstone Group, provides billing and payment process services to more than 2,000 payers and 1 million provider... [Full Article...]