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LONDON (Reuters) - The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine may be less able to protect against infection with a South African variant of the virus that has a worrying mutation, according to results of a British study released on Tuesday.

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Biden administration to provide COVID vaccine to pharmacies

Tue, 2021-02-02 13:39 — mike kraft

Biden administration to provide COVID vaccine to pharmacies WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies, part of its plan to ramp up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are... AP NEWS

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies, part of its plan to ramp up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are starting to appear, the White House said Tuesday.

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A grim coronavirus prediction, 1 year later

Tue, 2021-02-02 11:26 — mike kraft

Dr. James Lawler, a former White House official who predicted 480,000 U.S. COVID deaths last February, now says we could see “several hundred thousand” more.

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Judge throws out Trump rule limiting what science EPA can use

Tue, 2021-02-02 11:11 — mike kraft

Judge throws out Trump rule limiting what science EPA can use A federal judge on Monday vacated the Trump administration rule limiting which scientific studies the Environmental Protection Agency can use in crafting public health protections, overturning one of the last major rollbacks the agency enacted before President Biden took office. Juliet Eilperin Washington Post

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Had Covid? You May Need Only One Dose of Vaccine, Study Suggests

Tue, 2021-02-02 10:56 — mike kraft

Shannon Romano, a molecular biologist, came down with Covid late last March, about a week after she and her colleagues shut down their lab at Mount Sinai Hospital. A debilitating headache came first, followed by a fever that kept rising, and then excruciating body aches. “I couldn’t sleep. I couldn’t move,” she said. “Every one of my joints just hurt inside.”

It was not an experience she wanted to repeat — ever. So when she became eligible for the Covid-19 vaccine earlier this month, she got the shot.

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