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UW Medicine administers Washington’s first COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday

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FDA analysis confirms Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is safe and efficacious

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United Kingdom government under pressure to tighten Christmas Covid rules

Meanwhile, the Scottish government has recommended households only mix on Christmas day, rather than across the five-day period, with no overnight stays. Are Ho...

7 more COVID-19 cases identified in Island Health region

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TGH nurse first in Tampa Bay to get coronavirus vaccine

Tuesday, the premier's office said. So it was a bit unusual that DeSantis on Friday said that perhaps the number of Florida residents who receive COVID-19 va...

Canada getting 168K Moderna vaccine doses before year end

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European Union regulator set to approve Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec 23

A survey conducted last month in Britain by polling company JL Partners found 7% of respondents said they "definitely" would not take the vaccine, while 11% sai...

Care worker becomes 1st British Columbian to receive COVID-19 vaccine

Approximately 4,000 doses arrived in the province late Sunday night, the province's top doctor said during her COVID-19 briefing Monday. Moderna's vaccine i...

Germany seeking EU COVID vaccine approval 'before Christmas'

The goal was still to have a regular approval, not an emergency approval. Wieler reported the COVID-19 situation in Germany is worse than it has been at any t...

Northern Light A.R. Gould receives first COVID-19 vaccine shipment

Patrick Hospital received its initial round of 975 COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines. He's now booked to get his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday morn...

Canada to receive Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses before year's end: Trudeau

That gives the US a narrow margin for error, considering that Dr Anthony Fauci has said that between 75 and 85 percent of Americans need to get vaccinated for t...

Singapore approves Pfizer's Covid vaccine for use

Following a formal recommendation by the CDC and the FDA's granting of Emergency Use Authorization, the first Americans began receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 va...

European Union regulator to approve Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine on Dec 23

The first shipment of the vaccine arrived in the country on Sunday night, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailing the "good news". Workers at the Universit...

Alberta expects 29,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses by end of month

The deliveries reached ME as shipments are also arriving in states around the USA and as the virus is surging in ME and elsewhere. After reporting the most si...

Ontario reports increase in COVID-19 cases, 23 more deaths

Kieran Moore, Medical Officer of Health for Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addingon (KFL&A) Public Health on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. "It's an honour, thank you ...

Canada administers first doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Department of Veterans Affairs in a statement . Kayla Mitchell, 31, of Scarborough, a registered nurse who works in Maine Med's intensive care unit, was the...

Jordan approves Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine

News of the new deal comes provinces begin their mass vaccination campaigns following the approval of the Pfizer drug. The shot must be kept extremely cold and ...

What are the side effects of the Pfizer vaccine?

With numbers likely to get worse over the holidays, the vaccine is offering a bright spot in the fight against the pandemic that has killed almost 300,000 Ameri...

Florida officials detail plan to promote COVID-19 vaccine as safe

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech began arriving at hospitals around MA on Monday. This translates to an efficacy rate of 91.4 per cent. Pfi...

US COVID-19 Death Toll Passes 300000 as Vaccinations Begin

Brazil on Monday reported 433 deaths from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in the last 24 hours, raising the death toll to 181,835. NY state reported ...

US finds first case of Covid-19 in wild mink

On Monday, the BC SPCA called for all mink farm licences to be suspended. The B.C. SPCA is urging the provincial government to place a moratorium on mink farm...

Mason County COVID-19 Report Monday: 1 Death, 38 New Cases

The December 14th, 2020 - 4:00 p.m. news release says: "Since the last release (12/11/20), Mason County Public Health was notified of Thirty-Eight (38) addition...

Covid vaccine: Pfizer to request emergency approval today

At the cost of $40 per treatment, which consists of two separate shots, richer nations have rushed to order tens of millions of doses. Moderna Inc's COVID-19 ...

Here's when the Apple iPhone 13 is going to launch

The iPhone 12 was pushed out of the usual September launch window and into October. Kuo stated that the mass production schedule for the iPhone 13 is going to...

US approves Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine: statement

FDA has announced that Emergency Usage Approval has been issued for the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid 19 vaccination and Trump lauded it and assured the vaccination...

WSJ Opinion Editor Defends That Terrible Dr. Jill Biden Article

Jill Biden ", and spoke with journalism experts about whether news publications should use the title. "If you disagree with Mr. Epstein, fair enough", Gigot ...

Canada to begin Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine roll-out

Northwell Health, New York state's largest health system, operates some of the select hospitals in the United States that were administering the country's first...

Meijer pharmacies prep for COVID-19 vaccines, could host large-scale vaccine clinics

More than 100,000 people have already been vaccinated against the disease as part of Russia's mass inoculation programme, which began in September alongside a M...

First doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be administered in Ontario today

Quidangen is a Personal Support Worker at the Rekai Centre, a long-term care home in Toronto, and her dose marks a major milestone in the country's fight agains...

London and parts of South England to move to tier three

England's health secretary Matt Hancock told MPs the number of cases involving the new variant was "increasing rapidly". The Tier 3 measures - which will...

'New variant' of coronavirus identified in the UK

Hancock told lawmakers that officials have identified "a new variant of coronavirus which may be associated with the faster spread in the south of England "....

Coronavirus: 264 new cases and two further deaths in Ireland

The lower single-day death count on Monday was expected, because COVID-19 daily numbers have been lower on Mondays throughout the pandemic due to reduced report...

Critical Care Nurse is First to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine in US

Chamath Palihapitiya said in a tweet on Friday that everyone who gets the jab should "all wear a mask of a special design or color". 'Pretty sure the Nazis ...

Toronto health-care workers to receive first COVID-19 vaccines today

The first COVID-19 vaccines landed on Canadian soil, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, and some Canadians are expected to roll up their sleeves for a shot as ...

New York nurse receives first COVID vaccine in US

She immigrated to the United States in 1986 to further her education. "There were 20 severe cases of coronavirus infection among confirmed cases in the placeb...