FILE PHOTO: A person receives a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a mobile inoculation site in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., August 18, 2021. REUTERS/David ‘Dee’ DelgadoWASHINGTON (Reuters) –…
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President Biden Gets His Booster, Encourages More Mandates
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. President Joe Biden rolled up his sleeve Monday to get a COVID-19 booster shot in his left arm, and he urged eligible Americans who were at…
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U.S. administers 388.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines – CDC
FILE PHOTO: Esperanza Guevara, 31, receives a Johnson & Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination, in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson(Reuters) – The United States has administered 388,567,109 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of…
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Majority of young people will get Covid, predicts Chris Whitty
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Healthcare Company Suspends Workers Over Vaccine Policy
Novant Health, a North Carolina-based health care system, has suspended and may terminate about 375 employees who haven’t complied with the company’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy. The policy says employees must have received at least one dose of COVID vaccine…
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Pandemic Disrupted The Home Life of 67% of Female Physicians
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The pandemic was more disruptive to the home life of female primary care doctors who had children than that of those who did not have children,…
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Spain to donate 15 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses via COVAX
FILE PHOTO: A vial containing doses of the Moderna vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and empty syringes are seen at a vaccination centre in Ronda, Spain June 9, 2021. REUTERS/Jon NazcaMADRID (Reuters) – Spain will donate 7.5 million doses…
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Booster COVID-19 shot likely for all Italians in 2022 – health adviser to paper
FILE PHOTO: A health worker administers the third dose of a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a patient deemed to be ‘fragile’, as vaccinations jump in Italy after the government made inoculation mandatory for all workers, in Rome, Italy, September…
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US to Donate 500 Million More Vaccine Doses
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. The U.S. plans to donate an additional 500 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to countries around the world, according to Reuters. President Joe Biden announced the new…
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Clover's vaccine 67% effective against COVID, 79% against Delta variant in large trial
BEIJING (Reuters) -A potential COVID-19 vaccine from China’s Clover Biopharmaceuticals was 67% effective against COVID-19 of any degree of severity and 79% against the highly infectious Delta variant in a large trial, the company said on Wednesday. The company has…
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