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[ad_1] The COVID-19 vaccine can’t arrive soon enough for New York, which is getting deadlier by the day. New York City saw 2,575 new coronavirus cases Saturday and 116 deaths over the last week. The rate of city residents testing positive on COVID tests over seven days rose to 6.26% Saturday, almost a full percentage […]

[ad_1] Hallelujah.  The Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Friday as a second surging of the coronavirus continues to batter a pandemic-weary nation. The approval clears the way for the first wave of American recipients — millions of health workers and nursing home residents — to begin getting shots

[ad_1] As we enter this winter, we face alarming trends in the spread of COVID-19 around the country, but even in this challenging time, we have so much reason for hope. On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the first COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, and Operation Warp Speed (OWS) and its private sector partners immediately began

[ad_1] Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced Friday a delay in their COVID-19 vaccine program after study results found older patients failed to demonstrate a sufficient immune response against the coronavirus. The companies said in a joint statement the low immune response was likely due to an insufficient concentration of the antigen, which triggers the immune

[ad_1] After the first round of COVID-19 vaccines is administered to those at the top of the priority list, it will likely be possible for people to jump the line under an honor system, according to a report. The Food and Drug Administration has informed Pfizer that it intends to give the green light for

[ad_1] A North Texas medical examiner’s office has brought in two refrigerated trucks to store dead bodies in response to low capacity amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Many of the hospitals and larger funeral homes in the Fort Worth area have reached their storage capacity or will soon, said Nizam Peerwani, Tarrant County’s chief

[ad_1] American reinforcements, arrive on the beaches of Normandy from a Coast Guard landing barge into the surf on the French coast on June 23, 1944 during World War II. US COAST GUARD/AP The US saw 291,557 battle deaths during World War II, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The total number of confirmed

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is hitting the brakes on emerging COVID-19 aid package from a bipartisan group of lawmakers, saying Republican senators won’t support $160 billion in state and local funds as part of a potential trade-off in the deal. McConnell’s staff conveyed to top negotiators that the GOP leader

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves when their turn comes. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of U.S. adults

[ad_1] A popular vacation destination is shutting down to travelers through Christmas amid rising COVID-19 hospitalizations. Lake Tahoe vacation travel will be banned starting Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The ban will be in place for at least three weeks, meaning travelers will have to stay away from the popular ski destination over Christmas and through the end of the