Jan. 15, 2021 — The CDC is urging Americans to double down on precautions to thwart the spread of the coronavirus, as the new B.1.1.7 “super strain” takes hold in the U.S. New CDC modeling shows the new strain
Canada’s territories will have enough doses to fully vaccinate 75 per cent of their adult populations against the coronavirus “by the end of March,” Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said on Wednesday. Read more: Coronavirus vaccines arrive in remote
In Brazil, a mass inoculation campaign against COVID-19 will only be possible from March and will rely on the AstraZeneca vaccine, a senior health official at the country’s leading public biomedical institute told Reuters.The comments come as a fresh
No single municipality in the country suffered more in the first wave of the pandemic than New York City, which saw more than 24,000 deaths, mainly in the spring. Medical staff in New York know precisely how difficult and dangerous
Federal officials on Wednesday said they anticipate vaccinating as many as 100 million people by March once a coronavirus vaccine is approved and ready to be distributed.In a call with reporters, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said federal agencies have made
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted October 23, 2020 3:04 pm Smaller font Descrease article font size -A Larger font Increase article font size A+ OTTAWA – More than 4.6 million people have arrived in
For months, Quebecers have wondered why their province has been the one hardest hit by COVID-19.One popular theory blames people returning from spring break vacations abroad right before everything was locked down, and a new study using genetic sequencing
Dive Brief: Centene announced Monday it onboarded 1.1 million new members from the end of March through August, as the coronavirus pandemic drove historic job losses, booting millions of Americans off employer-sponsored insurance. The membership hike was in line with
When Susie Goulding was first diagnosed with the novel coronavirus in March, she said she experienced sinus infections, couldn’t swallow, and that her throat felt like “it was paralyzed.”After testing negative for the virus, not only was she still
TORONTO — A new report finds emergency department visits dropped by 25 per cent in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.The Canadian Institute for Health Information found 318,000 fewer visits took place in March 2020, compared to March