Vaccinations

Italy becomes first EU country to make a deal to produce Rusian vaccine

Tue, 2021-03-09 19:15 — mike kraft

Russia to make Sputnik V vaccine in Italy, a first in EU MILAN (AP) — Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.... AP NEWS

MILAN (AP) — Russia has signed a deal to produce its Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine in Italy, the first contract in the European Union, the Italian Russian Chamber of Commerce announced Tuesday.

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At least 37 states allow people with certain health conditions to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, but the specific vary

Tue, 2021-03-09 18:58 — mike kraft

As states have begun vaccinating Americans with medical conditions that may raise their risk for a severe case of Covid-19, they are setting widely varying rules about which conditions to prioritize.

The morass of guidelines has set off a free-for-all among people with underlying health problems like cancer or Type 2 diabetes to persuade state health and political officials to add particular conditions to an evolving vaccine priority list.

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U.S. government to ship 18.5 million doses of COVID vaccine this week. fewer than last week

Tue, 2021-03-09 17:56 — mike kraft

U.S. government to ship 18.5 million doses of COVID vaccine this week, White House says The White House said on Tuesday that the government will distribute around 18.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week, fewer than last week because no new doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine are ready to be sent out. Reuters Staff U.S.

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Teachers in all U.S. States are now eligible for vaccination, but there is still some confusion

Tue, 2021-03-09 11:17 — mike kraft

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Teachers in all U.S. states are now eligible for vaccination, though there is confusion in some states.

As of Monday, all K-12 educators nationwide are officially eligible to be vaccinated against Covid-19, though the situation is more straightforward in some states than others.

President Biden had urged states last week to make vaccinating teachers a priority, with a goal of “every educator, school staff member, child-care worker to receive at least one shot by the end of the month of March.” Mr. Biden said all teachers should be able to get vaccinated starting March 8.

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ANALYSIS: Lack of accesses not hesitancy is why fewer Black Americans are getting vaccinated

Tue, 2021-03-09 11:01 — mike kraft

Why Fewer Black Americans Are Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine (*No, It’s Not Hesitancy) The early data we have on vaccination rates is incomplete, but one fact is particularly alarming: Black Americans are getting vaccinated at a much slower rate t… Alex Samuels FiveThirtyEight

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Poll: A quarter of Americans now say someone close to them died of COVID-19; political and racial divides continue

Tue, 2021-03-09 10:14 — mike kraft

Yahoo News/YouGov poll: One year into pandemic, a quarter of Americans say someone close to them has died from COVID-19 One year ago, on the eve of the eventful day that signaled the start of the COVID-19 pandemic — March 11, 2020 — a plurality of Americans (44 percent) said the threat of the virus had been “exaggerated,” according to a Yahoo News/YouGov poll conducted at the time. YahooNews

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Global Covid-19 recovery hampered by slow pace of vaccine deliveries to Africa

Tue, 2021-03-09 10:03 — mike kraft

Slow pace of vaccine delivery risks global COVID-19 recovery Jumbo jets carrying pallets of coronavirus vaccines touched down last week in Rwanda, Sudan, Kenya, the Gambia, the Philippines and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where pilots posed for happy, masked photographs with health ministers a Reid Wilson TheHill

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A new service attempts to help people get vaccinated

Tue, 2021-03-09 09:44 — mike kraft

In the hustle to score an elusive vaccine appointment, the leftover dose has become the stuff of pandemic lore.

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Scientists still trying to track and evaluate the numerous coronavirus varians found in the US

Mon, 2021-03-08 18:18 — mike kraft

Multitude of coronavirus variants found in the US — but the threat is unclear Ramped-up sequencing efforts are helping to identify mutations that might boost transmission or help a virus evade immune responses. Ewen Callaway nature

For the scientists who have spent the past year poring over hundreds of thousands of coronavirus genomes, the United States has been an enigma. Despite having world-leading genome sequencing infrastructure and experiencing more COVID infections than any other country, the United States has until recently lagged far behind in sequencing coronavirus genomes and spotting worrisome variants.

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