Month: January 2021

Hawaii health officials today reported three new coronavirus-related death on Oahu and 119 new infections, bringing the state’s totals since the start of the pandemic to 328 fatalities and 24,739 cases. No further details were immediately available regarding the latest coronavirus-related deaths. The state’s official coronavirus-related death toll includes 258 fatalities on Oahu, 45 on Hawaii island, 21 on Maui, one on Kauai, and three Hawaii residents who died on the mainland. The Hawaii County Civil Defense Agency said the Big Island’s COVID-19 death toll remained at 51, but state officials have not verified coronavirus as a factor in six of those fatalities. Hawaii County has reported no coronavirus-related deaths in the past three weeks. The U.S. coronavirus-related death toll w...

The Suburban Collection Showplace in Novi will open as a COVID-19 vaccination site Saturday, with more than 300 Oakland County Health Division employees planning to inoculate about 3,000 people. Those to be vaccinated will receive the Moderna shot. All of the appointment slots are full, the county said Thursday in a release. More:Some Michigan counties grapple with vaccine switch, cancel clinics The county health division received 7,200 doses of the Moderna vaccine this week, the most amount of vaccine doses it has received in any week since vaccines started to roll out in December. The health division notified those eligible of their opportunity to make an appointment based on the state's COVID-19 vaccination plan and the information they provided on the county's "Save Your Spot" list in...

A registered nurse administers the COVID-19 vaccine into the arm of a woman at the Corona High School gymnasium in the Riverside County city of Corona, California on January 15, 2021, a day after California began offering the coronavirus vaccine to residents 65 and older. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images) Registration for limited COVID-19 vaccine appointments in Riverside County opened up Thursday for some residents, including those who are 65 and older, but the appointments were full soon after. Registration began at noon for six upcoming COVID-19 vaccine clinics in Lake Elsinore, Perris and Indio. Those eligible for the limited appointments are those in Phase 1A and 1B, which includes health care, education and other essential wor...