December 2020 – Corona Covid-19 Virus

Amid Health Care Worker Shortage, LA Mayor Presses For Faster Vaccine Rollout

December 31, 2020

Enlarge this image Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti visits a coronavirus vaccination site at the city's Lincoln Park on Wednesday. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Frazer Harrison/Getty Images As surging coronavirus cases push intensive care…

China Approves Its Homegrown COVID-19 Vaccine For Widespread Use

December 31, 2020

Enlarge this image A staff member checks a COVID-19 vaccine package in Beijing. China has approved Sinopharm's vaccine after clinical trials showed it has a 79% efficacy against COVID-19. Zhang Yuwei/Xinhua News Agency/Getty Images…

U.S. Likely Will Miss Goal Of Vaccinating 20 Million By The New Year

December 31, 2020

Enlarge this image The U.S. is unlikely to meet its goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of the year, health officials said this week. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images BRENDAN…

Resources for Teachers and Staff

December 31, 2020

COVID 19 classroom setup for schools and childcare programs

US officials address questions on coronavirus variant, vaccines

December 30, 2020

Amid concerns about the identification of a more-transmissible coronavirus variant in Colorado and mounting frustration over the slow pace of COVID-19 vaccination, the third wave of coronavirus infections in the United States continues…

News Scan for Dec 30, 2020

December 30, 2020

Hospital-acquired infections complicate COVID-19 recovery An Italian study in the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy yesterday found that 21.9% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients acquired bacterial or fungal superinfections—infection by a secondary pathogen—that complicated the…

Survey: COVID vaccine willingness waned since April

December 30, 2020

National survey results published yesterday in JAMA Network Open show that the number of people who say they are somewhat or very likely to seek COVID-19 vaccination fell from 74% to 56% from…

UK becomes first country to green light AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine

December 30, 2020

The United Kingdom today became the first country to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, and its vaccine advisory group also recommended spacing out doses of it and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine…

UK becomes first country to green-light AstraZeneca COVID vaccine

December 30, 2020

The United Kingdom today became the first country to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, and its vaccine advisory group also recommended spacing out doses of it and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine…

UK becomes first country to green-ight AstraZeneca COVID vaccine

December 30, 2020

The United Kingdom today became the first country to approve the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, and its vaccine advisory group also recommended spacing out doses of it and the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine…

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