Category : COVID-19

NEW YORK (REUTERS) – The chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech SE said the biggest challenge facing it and partner Pfizer Inc now that their Covid-19 vaccine is authorised for use in the United States will be to scale up manufacturing to meet huge demand. “We need to solve the manufacturing challenge,” Mr Ugur Sahin told […]Read More

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – The US Food and Drug Administration authorised the first Covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and BioNTech, making it available for emergency use to patients aged 16 and older. In clinical trials, the vaccine was 95 per cent effective at preventing illness and showed no short-term safety issues. The following is an […]Read More

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich arrives for a Huckabee forum on January 14, 2012 in Charleston, South Carolina. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images OAKLAND, Calif. — The California activist movement to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom just got a national shot in the arm from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike […]Read More

LOS ANGELES (BLOOMBERG) – The Greater Los Angeles area reported another record day of coronavirus cases on Friday (Dec 11), with infections surpassing 500,000 in what health officials say is a “Thanksgiving surge”. The data, coming two weeks after millions travelled across the country for the Thanksgiving break, showed that one in 20 people in […]Read More

WASHINGTON (NYTIMES, AFP) – The US Food and Drug Administration authorised Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday (Dec 11), according to two people with knowledge of the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss it. The action means millions of highly vulnerable people will begin receiving […]Read More

MEXICO CITY (REUTERS) – Mexico has become the fourth country to approve emergency use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, following authorisation from health regulator Cofepris, a health official said on Friday (Dec 11). “Cofepris has granted emergency authorisation to the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine,” deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell told a news conference, referring to Pfizer’s […]Read More

December 12, 2020 9:31 AM CALIFORNIA (NYTIMES) – As the Lopez family of Truckee, California, gathered to prepare dinner on a recent evening, one subject dominated the conversation: the coronavirus vaccine that will soon be shipped out across the country, giving Americans the first concrete hope that the pandemic will eventually end.Read More

{{featured_button_text}} Milwaukee County election hearing.  Riley Vetterkind Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday swiftly rejected a lawsuit brought by the state of Texas and backed by President Donald Trump to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin and three other states, while the Wisconsin Supreme Court is set to […]Read More

With vaccine distribution imminent, public health officials said Friday they can’t make any predictions about when the first wave of Oregonians — roughly 360,000 healthcare workers and residents of long-term care facilities — will all be immunized for COVID-19. They also can’t say when the vaccines might ultimately reach the general population because the federal […]Read More

The hearing, which has prompted sharp criticism from senators in both parties over concerns that Johnson is peddling in debunked conspiracy theories, is moving ahead despite calls from Democrats that he scrap it. But Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican who has not yet said if he’ll run for reelection in 2022, says his hearing is geared […]Read More