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Coronavirus: Israel leads in giving vaccnations, India hold national drill

Sat, 2021-01-02 12:39 — mike kraft

Coronavirus: Israel leads vaccine race with 12% given jab With more than 1m people inoculated, Israel has by far the highest vaccination rate in the world. BBC News

Israel has given vaccinations against coronavirus to more than one million people, the highest rate in the world, as global immunisation efforts step up.

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In Minority Communities, Doctors Are Changing Minds About Vaccination

Sat, 2021-01-02 12:02 — mike kraft

Like many Black and rural Americans, Denese Rankin, a 55-year-old retired bookkeeper and receptionist in Castleberry, Ala., did not want the Covid-19 vaccine.

Ms. Rankin worried about side effects — she had seen stories on social media about people developing Bell’s palsy, for example, after they were vaccinated. She thought the vaccines had come about too quickly to be safe. And she worried that the vaccinations might turn out to be another example in the government’s long history of medical experimentation on Black people.

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Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals tribal distrust in U.S.

Sat, 2021-01-02 11:51 — mike kraft

Fast rollout of virus vaccine trials reveals tribal distrust FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The news came during a hopeful time on the largest Native American reservation. Daily coronavirus cases were in the single digits, down from a springtime peak of 238... AP NEWS

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The news came during a hopeful time on the largest Native American reservation.

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UK Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses

Sat, 2021-01-02 11:42 — mike kraft

Covid wards 'full of children' for first time in pandemic, warn nurses Medics are starting to see “whole wards of children” suffering from Covid for the first time during the pandemic, a senior nurse has warned. Laura Duffell, a matron at King’s College Hospital, London, said the new strain of Covid was affecting children and younger adults with no underlying health conditions in worrying numbers. She said: “It’s very different. That’s what makes it so much scarier for us as doctors, nurses and porters and everyone else who is working on the front line.

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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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Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk

Fri, 2021-01-01 12:47 — mike kraft

Exclusive: Drugmakers to hike prices for 2021 as pandemic, political pressure put revenues at risk Drugmakers including Pfizer Inc, Sanofi SA, and GlaxoSmithKline Plc plan to raise U.S. prices on more than 300 drugs in the United States on Jan. 1, according to drugmakers and data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. Michael Erman, Carl O’Donnell U.S.

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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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