ABUJA (Reuters) – A doctor who has spent the past year treating COVID-19 patients on Friday became the first person in Nigeria to be vaccinated against the disease, kicking off a mammoth campaign that aims to inoculate 80 million people…
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Contagious Brazil COVID Variant Evades Immunity, Scientists Warn
LONDON (Reuters) – A highly transmissible COVID-19 variant that emerged in Brazil and has now been found in at least 20 countries can re-infect people who previously recovered from the disease, scientists said on Tuesday. In a study of the…
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UK to Prioritize Next Stage of COVID Vaccine by Age, Not Job
LONDON (Reuters) – Police and teachers will not jump to the head of the queue in the second phase of Britain’s COVID-19 vaccination rollout, with people instead prioritised by age, officials advising the government said on Friday, describing this as…
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Vaccinating Teachers to Reopen Schools ‘Not Doable’
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Vaccinating all teachers against COVID-19 before schools reopen isn’t doable, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Wednesday. “If…
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Biden Administration Changes Vaccination Timeline
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Last week, Anthony Fauci, MD, said that “virtually everybody and anybody in any category could start to get vaccinated” in April. But on Tuesday, the Biden…
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EHR Vendors Tweak Software to Support Mass Vaccination Efforts
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The two leading vendors of electronic health record (EHR) systems, Epic and Cerner, announced recently that they were supporting mass vaccination sites with specially designed software….
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FEMA Opens Mass Vaccine Sites as Bad Weather Hampers Efforts
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Motorists wait to get their COVID-19 vaccine at a federally run vaccination site set up on the campus of California State University, Los Angeles. FEMA opened…
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French Authority Recommends Single COVID-19 Shot for Those Previously Infected
PARIS (Reuters)- French health authority Haute Autorite de Sante recommended on Friday that only a single shot of COVID-19 vaccine should be administered to people who had been previously infected. The HAS said in a statement that people previously infected…
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Boots and Superdrug Covid vaccine service to launch at 200 stores in UK – full list
Boots will 'do its part' in vaccine rollout says Seb James Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced 24-hour vaccination services are being set out “in due course”. The fight against Covid is truly underway. Health Secretary Matt…
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Can you have the flu jab and the Covid vaccine at the same time?
Doctor says not to get flu jab at same time as covid vaccine Flu jabs are available every year in GP practices and pharmacies, and many people are eligible for free flu jabs on the NHS. Recently the Government has…
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