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Ontario has the largest stockpile of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada, with 1.4 million doses currently unused. The numbers come from Canada’s Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, who tweeted stats on how many doses have been delivered and how many have been used as of April 5. Many Ontarians have expressed disappointment in this in conjunction with the province’s seemingly […]
A new study shows that as many as a third of COVID-19 survivors suffer a neurological or psychiatric disorder within six months. The study, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal this week, pulled data (in part) from the electronic health records of 236,379 patients who had a COVID-19 diagnosis. As researchers explained when discussing their results, […]
Heinz confirmed to USA TODAY on Tuesday that the company will expand its efforts to address an unlikely byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic that has impacted restaurants and fast food chains across the United States: a ketchup packet shortage. Manufacturing lines will be increased by about 25 percent to produce more than 12 billion packets a year. In […]
Back in March, President Biden announced that he had directed states and regions in the U.S. to make all adults vaccine-eligible by the beginning of May. Now, that pivotal date is being moved up nearly two weeks. On Tuesday, the Associated Press cited an anonymous White House official as having confirmed that Biden would soon announce […]
An emerging coronavirus variant that experts believe to be partly responsible for the surge in cases in India has now been found in California. The Stanford Clinical Virology Lab identified one case of the “double mutant” variant in the Bay Area and is screening seven other possible cases, spokesperson Lisa Kim told the San Francisco Chronicle. […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit India harder in recent weeks with the country’s largest cities now looking to enforce harsher lockdown measures following a six-month high in infection rates. Reuters reports that cases in the country have been surging for the past month as India becomes the third country with the highest number of infections, only following […]
California, which was once considered a COVID-19 hot spot, is preparing to bring back indoor concerts. State officials announced the big move in a press release Friday, about a year after California started banning large-scale, in-person events in an effort to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The state’s Department of Public Health said that beginning April 15, indoor concerts, performances, […]
There soon will be two more over-the-counter rapid COVID-19 tests available for home use. The Associated Press reports that the FDA has authorized the inexpensive home tests, which have been scarcely available since the pandemic’s outset. This news arrives as experts worry that spring breakers across the country will boost the spread of the more infectious […]
Though the behavior of some may suggest otherwise, masks are indeed still strongly advised as an easily wearable accessory amid the still-in-progress pandemic era. To bolster involvement in the ongoing process of improving mask design and comfortability, the Biden administration has announced a $500,000 contest in which inventors are asked to contribute their own designs for effective […]
Protection following the second dose of the two-shot Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine lasts at least six months, per an updated analysis of observations made in a phase 3 study. Pfizer announced these latest findings in a news release on Thursday, noting that the new stats on its COVID-19 vaccine will soon be shared with global regulatory agencies. […]
