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Four websites featuring articles that cast doubt about the COVID-19 vaccines have been traced back to Russian intelligence agencies as part of their alleged campaign to diminish confidence in the drug’s efficacy and safety, the Wall Street Journal reports. An official with the U.S. Department of State’s Global Engagement Center found that these online publications, which have been identified […]
With COVID-19 continuing to spread across the country at alarming and new variants reportedly being detected, researchers have noticed that the common flu seems to have taken a backseat to the pandemic. “This is the lowest flu season we’ve had on record,” Lynnette Brammer of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said of the disappearance of […]
The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. has reached another sobering milestone. Per an ongoing tally on coronavirus deaths from NBC News, the U.S. has now reached 500,000 deaths as of Sunday. Though the U.S. boasts less than five percent of the world’s population, the country currently accounts for more than a fifth of […]
Health maintenance organization (HMO) Clalit, the largest healthcare provider in Israel, has reported a drop of 94 percent of symptomatic COVID-19 infections from a group of 600,000 people who have gotten both of the necessary doses of the Pfizer vaccine, according to Reuters. HMO Clalit covers more than half of Israel’s population, and also reported that […]
As we draw closer to a full year of the pandemic here in the States, optimism can be found in the continued rollout of vaccines, despite none of this moving fast enough to bring total peace of mind. In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on Today that aired Thursday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci—director of the […]
This week the country passed a hopeful milestone: There are now more Americans who have been vaccinated than have contracted COVID-19. According to Bloomberg’s Vaccine Tracker, 26.5 million people in the country have received one or two doses of either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccine. That surpasses the 26.3 million documented U.S. cases of coronavirus […]
Police in China have arrested more than 80 people who are said to be suspected members of a group that was making and selling fake COVID-19 vaccines. The group was helmed by a suspect surnamed Kong, according to the Associated Press, and sold the fake vaccines within China and to additional countries. Authorities in Beijing, […]
The mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles shut down on Saturday afternoon after dozens of protesters blocked the entrance, preventing hundreds of people from receiving their vaccine after waiting in line for hours. According to the Los Angeles Times, the protest included anti-vaxxers and far-right conspiracy theorists who crowded the entrance […]
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti addressed criticism on Thursday after receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. People called out Garcetti for “cutting the line” since, as a 49-year-old not working in healthcare, he does not meet the general eligibility requirements. “Quite simply, it was strong medical advice from the people that were there, and […]
A new coronavirus variant from South Africa has been found in the United States for the first time, the Associated Press reports. Two cases were identified in South Carolina, and state health officials believe it is almost certain that there are more people with the mutated strain who have not yet been confirmed. Both adults who tested […]
