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Pfizer and BioNTech to offer COVID vaccine to volunteers who got placebo

Fri, 2021-01-01 19:59 — mike kraft
Pfizer and BioNTech to offer COVID vaccine to volunteers who got placebo Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech Se plan to give volunteers who received a placebo in its COVID-19 vaccine trial an option to receive a first dose of the vaccine by March 1, 2021, while staying within the study. Reuters Staff U.S.
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Update: Third state identifies more transmissible variant as U.S. cases surpass 20 million

Fri, 2021-01-01 19:42 — mike kraft
Coronavirus updates: Third state identifies more transmissible variant as U.S. cases surpass 20 million Florida's identification of a case of the coronavirus variant, first detected in the U.K., is a reminder that the pandemic remains strong as a new year begins. Marisa Iati, Reis Thebault Washington Post
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Wisconsin police arrest former hospital worker whose alleged actions led hospital to throw out more than 500 vaccine doses

Fri, 2021-01-01 12:32 — mike kraft
Wisconsin police arrest former hospital worker whose alleged actions led hospital to throw out more than 500 vaccine doses Police in Grafton, Wisconsin, have arrested a recently fired pharmacist they say removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from a local hospital's refrigerator and left them to sit out. Steve Almasy, Kay Jones and Jason Hanna, CNN CNN
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A club nobody 'wanted to join': How Covid widows are finding support through Facebook

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:51 — mike kraft
A club nobody ‘wanted to join’: How Covid widows are finding support through Facebook "A lot of young women are losing their husbands to this, and they think they are alone," the group's founder said. "We need to come together and support each other, because Covid-19 is like a different type of death." NBC News

The last time Pamela Addison saw her husband alive, on April 3, she managed to mouth the words "I love you" to him before the paramedics loaded him into the ambulance.

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Researchers think 'hundreds' of people in US could have new UK coronavirus strain

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:31 — mike kraft
Researchers think 'hundreds' of people in US could have new UK coronavirus strain Researchers studying the new UK strain of the coronavirus think it likely arrived in the US in mid-November, and that many people in the United States could already be infected. Elizabeth Cohen, CNN Senior Medical Correspondent CNN
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US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:20 — mike kraft
US debates whether UK approach is better on COVID-19 vaccinations A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

A new approach to COVID-19 vaccination just adopted in the United Kingdom is gaining traction in America, but is dividing public health experts.

In an effort to push out as many doses of the vaccine as possible, British officials will no longer hold back the second of two doses.

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Food banks fear possible end of USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program

Fri, 2021-01-01 11:02 — mike kraft
Food banks fear possible end of USDA Farmers to Families Food Box program The program, which sent more than a 100 million boxes of fresh food to families straight from food distributors, was part of a Covid-19 relief program that might not continue in 2021. NBC News
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It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the tide of the pandemic in the US, experts say

Fri, 2021-01-01 10:42 — mike kraft
It'll be months before vaccines are widespread enough to turn the course of the pandemic in the US, experts say As the US ushered in 2021, more than 125,300 Covid-19 patients remained hospitalized -- another record for the fourth day in a row. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN
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US sets daily Covid-19 death record for the second straight day. Another 80,000 could die in next 3 weeks, new forecast says

Thu, 2020-12-31 15:48 — mike kraft
A new forecasts projects more than 80,000 Americans could die of Covid-19 in next 3 weeks As 2020 nears its end, the US still is setting one-day records for Covid-19 deaths and hospitalizations. Christina Maxouris, CNN CNN

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OPINION: Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other debilitating and deadly diseases

Thu, 2020-12-31 14:57 — mike kraft
Stopping the syndemic: Covid-19 plus other deadly diseases - STAT As the pandemic rips across the world, other debilitating and deadly diseases are left undiagnosed and untreated. We're facing a syndemic. Patrick Skerrett STAT
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