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President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will be sending additional supplies and support to India as the country sees a spike in COVID cases, CNN reports. The aid, which will help manufacture the vaccine, fund vaccine manufacturers and fund medical equipment, comes after India reported nearly 350,000 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday. Per CNN, that the spike […]
The Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for use, once again. According to the New York Times, United States health regulators ended the pause on the single dose shot on Friday afternoon, after an advisory panel for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged officials to resume its use. The vaccine was one of three shots […]
Six people in Vaughan, Ontario were mistakenly injected with saline instead of a COVID-19 vaccine, say health officials. The incident occured on March 28 at the Mackenzie Health COVID-19 Vaccine Clinic, which is located at Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital, according to a statement issued Monday by Mackenzie Health. “Saline is used to dilute the COVID-19 vaccine prior […]
In what Twitter users are already calling “the Arnold Palmer,” a New Hampshire man experienced something of a virus mix-up Tuesday morning, getting a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose in place of what was supposed to be a second Moderna dose. The man, Craig Richards, said he initially got his first dose of Pfizer in March at the same […]
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 […]
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. […]
Rita Wilson says she and her husband Tom Hanks haven’t gotten the vaccine yet. The two were one of the first major celebrities to announce they have tested positive for coronavirus. In March of last year, Hanks and Wilson released a statement from Australia detailing their symptoms. Wilson, who was a surprise co-host on Today […]
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. […]
Johnson & Johnson released a statement Wednesday acknowledging that a batch of its Covid-19 vaccine doses handled by a manufacturing plant in Baltimore failed to meet quality standards, MarketWatch reports. J&J wouldn’t specify how many doses were affected, but the New York Times suspects the number to be around 15 million. “This quality control process identified one batch of drug substance […]
