The country’s first coronavirus vaccinations are now being distributed. The FDA granted the Pfizer vaccine emergency authorization for use, and it’s expected that soon, possibly by this week, it will do the same for the Moderna vaccine. In trials, the…
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New Sydney COVID-19 cluster gives Australians ‘wake-up call’
Health officials were rushing Thursday to trace the source of a growing cluster of COVID-19 cases in Australia’s largest city of Sydney, with thousands of residents urged to stay home. Initial reports of five cases on Thursday morning had grown…
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Alaska health care worker suffers adverse reaction after COVID-19 vaccine
HHS Secretary Azar: 20M Americans should be vaccinated by end of 2020 Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar provides insight into the historic coronavirus vaccine rollout on ‘Fox and Friends.’ A health care worker in Alaska is doing "well" after…
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More states see first COVID-19 vaccinations
COVID-19 vaccine is ‘going to help our economy’: Sen. Scott Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tells ‘Fox & Friends’ people still need to ‘be careful’ as vaccine distribution gets underway. Additional states marked public health milestones on Tuesday after the first coronavirus vaccinations…
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COVID-19 tied to rare but severe eye infection
(HealthDay)—A rare, sight-stealing infection might be triggered by COVID-19, a new study suggests. In the space of two months, three patients suffering from COVID-19 in one New York health system developed keratitis, an inflammation of the cornea, which then led…
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Risk of catching COVID-19 from family member you live with is 16.6%
Risk of catching coronavirus from a family member you live with is just 17% and only one in three people pass it on to their spouse, study finds Researchers analyzed 54 studies with more 77,000 participants reporting household secondary transmission of…
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French city of Le Havre begins mass testing for COVID-19
The northern French port city of Le Havre on Monday launched a mass drive to test its 270,000 inhabitants for COVID-19 before a nationwide lockdown is lifted. After six weeks of seclusion aimed at taming a second wave of coronavirus…
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Covid-19 nasal vaccine trial given the green light – ‘no injections, no nasty reactions’
Coronavirus 'nasal spray vaccine' discussed by expert Pharmaceutical services company Open Orphan announced it had received approval from the MHRA on Monday and that it was ready to conduct a phase one study of Covi-Vac, the COVID-19 nasal vaccine, in…
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Read This Before Getting The COVID-19 Vaccine
It might not have looked like much when 90-year-old Margaret Keenan stepped up to the blue armchair. But hers was what the Associated Press called “the shot watched round the world” when she became the first person to receive a tested and…
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COVID-19 Vaccine Caution Issued by U.K. Officials
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 9, 2020 — People with a “significant history” of allergic reactions should not receive the new Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, U.K. regulators said Tuesday. The advice was issued after two people suffered adverse reactions on the first day of…
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