Month: January 2021

Here’s what you need to know: A vaccine site in the Bronx. Federal health officials and corporate executives agree that it will be tough to increase the supply of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines before April because of a lack of manufacturing capacity.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times President Biden, under intense pressure to speed up the pace of coronavirus vaccination, said on Tuesday that his administration was nearing a deal with two manufacturers that would enable 300 million Americans to have their shots by the end of the summer. Supplies to the states will be increasing 16 percent beginning next week, according to figures provided by Mr. Biden, who promised that his administration would give governors something they had long asked for: certainty over the supply they ...

Seniors were left in tears after finding that appointments they’d made through a bungled sign-up form wouldn’t be honored. The group switched to a for-profit model without publicizing the change and added a privacy policy that would allow it to sell users’ personal data. One volunteer alleged that the 22-year-old CEO had pocketed vaccine doses. Another described a “free-for-all” where unsupervised 18- and 19-year-olds vaccinated one another and posed for photos. The group offered a partial apology Tuesday while defending the switch to for-profit status, and CEO Andrei Doroshin told Philadelphia magazine that claims he had helped himself to leftover vaccine doses were “baseless.” Just a few weeks ago, Philly Fighting COVID was receiving glowing coverage from the likes of NBC’s “Today....

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Here are the latest updates about COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, in North Carolina. Have questions about the COVID-19 vaccine? Send them to us here WEDNESDAY MORNING STORYLINES North Carolina will receive its first federal shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday. The 120,000 doses of the vaccine the state receives each week will be less than what's been made available so far from the state's supply. Gov. Roy Cooper will speak Wednesday afternoon along with the state's COVID-19 task force. Cooper is expected to answer questions about the state's vaccine supply. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen has said the state is finished giving out its backlog of shots. Gov. Cooper is scheduled to speak at 2...

A health expert from Harvard made his case Tuesday that everyone in the U.S. should wear N95 face masks in order to slow the spread of COVID-19. Joseph G. Allen, the director of the Healthy Buildings program at the university, penned an op-ed in the Washington Post and said there’s "no reason any essential worker—and really, everyone in the country – should go without masks that filter 95%." BIDEN DECLINES TO TELL CHICAGO TEACHERS REFUSING TO TEACH IN-PERSON TO GO BACK TO WORK His pitch came a day after Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top disease expert in the U.S., said in an interview that wearing two cloth masks "likely" offers more protection for the wearer. "So if you have a physical covering with one layer, you put another layer on, it just makes common sense that it likely would be mor...

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CDC researchers find 'little evidence' of schools contributing to spread of COVID - indicating in-person learning is SAFE if precautions are taken Studies in the US found little evidence schools were spreading COVID-19 This shows a 'path forward' to in-person classes, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Tuesday While there was evidence of in-school transmission, 'the preponderance of available evidence from the fall school semester has been reassuring,' they said  The CDC said there 'has been little evidence that schools have contributed meaningfully to increased community transmission' By Valerie Edwards For Dailymail.com and Reuters Published: 01:51 EST, 27 January 2021 | Updated: 03:49 EST, 27 January 2021 Studi...