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Brazilian Covid strain found in UK raising fears over vaccine protection - BBC News

•Feb 28, 2021
BBC News
Six cases of the new Brazilian variant of coronavirus have been detected in the UK for the first time, three in England and three in Scotland. All but one of the cases are linked to travel from Brazil. Public Health England said the risk to the wider community is considered low, but it has increased testing in the South Gloucestershire area, where two of the cases were found. There are concerns that the Brazilian variant may be more contagious than the original virus and less likely to be contained by the existing vaccines. Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by health correspondent Catherine Burns.

Coronavirus Variant Found in Brazil Can Cause Reinfection, Study Shows

The first detailed studies of the so-called P.1 variant show how it spread in the Amazonian city of Manaus. Here’s the latest Covid-19 news.

Behind the Lines of Britain’s Covid-19 War

The government has laid out plans for reopening. But in cramped intensive care wards, teeming with patients and doctors near despair, the battle is unrelenting.

J&J’s Covid Vaccine Could Protect Millions -- If People Take It

The key will be assuring people that the single-shot vaccine is worth taking.

Tracking the Spread of the Coronavirus Outbreak in the U.S.

CDC Recommends Johnson & Johnson’s One-Shot Vaccine Angelica LaVito and Josh Wingrove

As School Closures Near First Anniversary, a Diverse Parent Movement Demands Action

Frustrated with remote learning, parents in the Philadelphia area are running for office, suing, relocating or retreating to private school.

Teacher Vaccine Eligibility Expands in States Where Supply Lags

L.A. County teachers, some essential workers eligible for vaccine starting Monday

The newly eligible workers will be able to make appointments starting Monday, but only a small number of first-dose appointments will be available.

Pa. eases restrictions and ends travel quarantine; N.J. expands vaccine eligibility; colleges plan for in-person fall semester

by Rob Tornoe, Laura McCrystal, Allison Steele and Robert Moran

Coronavirus Testing Slumps in the U.S.

Medical experts cited various factors behind the 30 percent drop in the country’s screening in recent weeks. Here’s the latest pandemic news.

Thousands of Farmworkers Are Prioritized for the Coronavirus Vaccine

A landmark initiative in California is taking vaccines to the fields, targeting a high-risk immigrant work force, many of whom are undocumented.

For a crematorium worker, COVID-19’s mounting toll is measured in ashes and anguish

We’re having trouble recognizing each other in masks, and it’s getting awkward

New York Covid-19 Variant Expands Reach in U.S. With 735 Cases

Early studies suggest the mutation may evade antibody therapy.

Philly’s first federal COVID-19 mass vaccination site already is having to fend off people who aren’t eligible

by Jason Laughlin

Canceling hundreds of appointments made by people who shouldn't yet be vaccinated became a major time investment on the first day of a federal mass vaccination site in Philadelphia.

U.S. Rep. Scanlon: Pa. admits vaccine undersupply in Philadelphia suburbs, promises to fix it with extra doses immediately

by Maria Panaritis The Pa. Secretary of Health's acknowledgement followed an Inquirer analysis showing Bucks, Delco, Montgomery and Chester Counties got less COVID-19 vaccine than many smaller counties.

#Coronavirus #Vaccines #EuropeanUnion

Who's to blame for the EU's slow coronavirus vaccine rollout? | DW News

•Feb 25, 2021 DW News

The EU has been slow off the mark in its vaccination drive, and new infection numbers are still stubbornly high in many countries. Germany currently has an incidence rate of 61 per 100,000. Sweden and the Czech Republic have more than 200. DW Brussels correspondent Max Zander takes a look at the challenges the EU faces going forward, and DW speaks with Manfred Weber, Member of the European Parliament. Vaccines, variants and freedom of movement. About a year into the pandemic, the EU is struggling to keep up with recent developments as Council president Charles Michel made clear in his invitation letter to the two day leaders conference.

#BBCNews

World's first doses of Covax vaccines delivered - BBC News

•Feb 24, 2021 BBC News

Ghana has become the first recipient of Covid-19 vaccine doses distributed by the global vaccine sharing initiative, Covax. A plane carrying 600,000 doses of the of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine landed in the capital, Accra, on Wednesday. The Covax scheme aims to reduce the divide between rich countries and poorer nations unable to buy doses. The programme is planning to deliver about two billion vaccine doses globally by the end of the year.

Ghana Is First Nation to Get Free Covid-19 Vaccines Under Covax Plan

Inside a Covid I.C.U., Through a Nurse's Eyes | NYT Opinion

•Feb 25, 2021 The New York Times
The short film above allows you to experience the brutality of the pandemic from the perspective of nurses inside a Covid-19 intensive care unit. Opinion Video producer Alexander Stockton spent several days reporting at the Valleywise Medical Center in Phoenix. Two I.C.U. nurses wore cameras to show what it’s like to care for the sickest Covid patients a year into the pandemic. So many Americans have died in hospitals without family by their side, but they were not alone. Nurses brush patients’ teeth, change their catheters and hold their hands in their final moments. In just a year, we’ve lost half a million Americans to Covid-19. Vaccinations may be offering some relief, but inside I.C.U.s, nurses continue to contend with the trauma and grief of America’s carousel of death.

Opinion

One I.C.U., Two Nurses With Cameras. Here’s What They Saw.

“Nobody can ever even imagine what goes on in there.”

#VaccinePassport #EuropeanUnion #Pandemic

EU leaders agree to introduce COVID-19 vaccine passports | DW News

•Feb 26, 2021 DW News

The European Union has agreed to develop a COVID-19 vaccine passport that could ease border crossings, and allow people more freedom to travel again. EU leaders met for a virtual summit to discuss coordination. They're already under pressure over a lagging vaccine rollout. German Chancellor Angela Merkel says it will be at least three months before a vaccine passport system is up and running.With slow vaccinations, coronavirus Variants , border chaos and summer holidays at risk – there was no shortage of talking points at this virtual EU summit.During a four hour video call leaders tried to find a united way forward in the fight against the pandemic. The pressure is intense, concerns can't just be waved aside with the EU lagging behind on vaccination numbers and new variants spreading rapidly across the continent.Apart from ramping up vaccine manufacturing and easing production bottlenecks the EU will put more energy into detecting these more contagious and dangerous mutations through a dedicated program. With spring on its way tourism has made it back to the agenda. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was one of the first leaders to call for an EU-wide vaccination certificate in an attempt to ease travel restrictions and save the summer holiday season. That’s something all leaders could get behind. But how and when exactly this - vaccine passport - could be rolled out is uncertain. But for the moment, member states have agreed that tourism and all non-essential travel is not an option.

#Coronavirus #Mutation #B117

What do the current mutations mean for the coronavirus pandemic? | COVID-19 Special

•Jan 12, 2021 DW News
As it spreads, it's mutating, taking on new characteristics, that can make it harder to fight. New variants found in South Africa and the UK are more contagious - straining health services. Japan is trying to isolate a new variant from Brazil. There's no proof any of them are any deadlier, but the virus is constantly changing, and could eventually make vaccines less effective. South Africa just became the first African nation to surpass the 1 million mark for coronavirus cases, authorities worry about the spread of the new and potentially highly contagious variant detected in the country.

Vaccine Shipments Present a Security Challenge Worthy of a James Bond Film

Shipping companies are using kill switches, panic buttons, plainclothes guards, and tons of monitoring to ensure delivery.

By Thomas Buckley March 2, 2021, 12:01 AM EST

Germany Steps Up Virus Checks at French Border to Fight Variants

Alexei Anishchuk and Geraldine Amiel

A Covid Vaccine Side Effect, Enlarged Lymph Nodes, Can Be Mistaken for Cancer

The condition is becoming more common as immunization rates increase. Experts are suggesting ways to ease patients’ fears and avoid needless testing.

#SubstanceAbuse #Coronavirus #Lockdown

High on lockdown: Substance abuse during the pandemic | COVID-19 Special

•Feb 26, 2021 DW News
Actor Seth Rogen, is not alone. Celebrity or not – pandemic pot smokers are on the rise, according to a global survey of 55,000 respondents. Boredom and loneliness are the most frequently cited reasons. The same for consuming more alcohol. Take Australia – before the coronavirus arrived, six percent of respondents drank alcohol on a daily basis. That's surged to over 30 percent during the pandemic.

5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating

We can learn from our failures.

FEBRUARY 26, 2021 Zeynep Tufekci Contributing writer at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/how-public-health-messaging-backfired/618147/

Outside In | Race for Covid-19 vaccines only widens the rich-poor gap David Dodwell27 Feb 2021 - 1:46AM

Supreme Court Again Allows Indoor Church Services, Lifts Ban

Greg Stohr

We’ve taken a look at how COVID-19 continues to change daily life: in L.A., paper cranes representing lives lost spark a global movement; in the Central Valley, the long-awaited relief of a vaccine for two healthcare workers and their family; and in Mexico, a young Catholic priest tries to save his diocese from the virus.

It’s not yet clear whether getting vaccinated protects those around you. But researchers think it might.

People vaccinated against coronavirus may shed less virus and, therefore, transmit less disease to others, experts say.

By Lindsey Bever

Philippines Offers Sinovac Vaccine to Health Workers Against FDA Caution

FDA advisers endorse J&J coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for likely authorization this weekend

If cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, the shot would be the nation’s third vaccine and the only one that provides protection with a single dose. Experts said it could expedite efforts to inoculate Americans as virus variants spread.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Laurie McGinley

Feb 26, 2021

Johnson & Johnson Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Unanimously Recommended for Emergency Use Authorization by U.S. FDA Advisory Committee

U.S. Awaits F.D.A.’s Green Light for Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine

The agency is expected to formally approve the single-shot vaccine on Saturday, making a third option available in the U.S. Here’s the latest on Covid-19.

A small town in denial comes face to face with the virus

When covid-19 became a reality in Southern Illinois in November, flooding across the plains, it illuminated a deeper, underlying problem in small-town America. By Will Englund | Photos by Whitney Curtis for The Post

A New Coronavirus Variant Is Spreading in New York, Researchers Report

The variant contains a mutation thought to help the virus dodge the immune system, scientists said.

Attacks on Asian-Americans in New York Stoke Fear, Anxiety and Anger

Hate crimes involving Asian-American victims soared in New York City last year. Officials are grappling with the problem even as new incidents occur.

By Alexandra E. Petri and Daniel E. Slotnik Feb. 26, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/nyregion/asian-hate-crimes-attacks-ny.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=New%20York

Opinion | Why the smartest Covid-19 solutions may not be the most rational

Andrew Sheng 27 Feb 2021 - 2:29AM

The wave of covid bankruptcies has begun

By Jonathan O'Connell and Anu Narayanswamy

John Lauerman and Jason Gale

Can a Vaccinated Person Still Spread the Coronavirus?

Iain Marlow and Jason Gale

What Are Vaccine Passports and How Would They Work?

Jason Gale

What We Know About the Impact of Covid-19 on Children

The Editorial Board

What It Will Take to Get Life Back to Normal

They Were on Equal Footing. Then the Ground Shifted.

A year of pandemic restrictions has meant some friends are flush and others foundering.

#BBCNews #Wuhan #Covid

Covid-19 and Wuhan: Why don't we know more? - BBC News

•Feb 12, 2021 BBC News
As countries scramble to protect themselves against Covid-19, the search for its origin continues.

Global COVID-19 deaths surpass 2.5 mln: Johns Hopkins University

Xinhua | Updated: 2021-02-26 03:54 NEW YORK

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202102/26/WS60380089a31024ad0baab1be.html

Johns Hopkins experts in global public health, infectious disease, and emergency preparedness have been at the forefront of the international response to COVID-19.

This website is a resource to help advance the understanding of the virus, inform the public, and brief policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/

Brazil Surpasses 250,000 Covid Deaths Amid Vaccination Hurdles

Danielle Chaves, Rachel Gamarski and Isadora Calumby

#BBCNews

UK considers “vaccine passports” to prove Covid protection - BBC News

•Feb 23, 2021 BBC News

The Final Push to End the Coronavirus Pandemic in the U.S.

Shots are going into more arms, but too many people could still fall through the cracks.

Vaccine Passport Finds Strong Support in U.K. Poll

FDA confirms Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine works well

•Feb 24, 2021 CBS News
An FDA review released today confirms the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine is both safe and effective against COVID-19, likely setting the stage for a third vaccine to be authorized for use in the U.S. Dr. Neeta Ogden joins CBSN with more.

F.D.A. Panel Gives Green Light to Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine

Formal authorization is expected on Saturday, and the first shipments are likely to go out in the days after that. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

Feb 26, 2021

Johnson & Johnson Single-Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Unanimously Recommended for Emergency Use Authorization by U.S. FDA Advisory Committee

J&J’s One-Shot Covid Vaccine Receives FDA Advisers’ Backing

FDA Advisers to Vet J&J’s One-Shot Vaccine for Emergency Use

Robert Langreth

J&J’s Covid-19 Vaccine Is Safe and Effective, FDA Says, Paving Way for Approval

Agency says the single-dose vaccine is 66.1% effective in preventing moderate to severe virus disease, and showed signs of slowing the virus’s spread

By Thomas M. Burton and Peter Loftus Updated Feb. 24, 2021 5:51 pm ET
https://www.wsj.com/articles/johnson-and-johnson-covid-19-vaccine-fda-review-11614118867

J&J Covid Vaccine Found Effective by FDA Before Panel Meets

J&J Shot to Get EU Nod in Early March, Easing Supply Squeeze

Insurer Warns of South African Death Spike in Covid Third Wave

Moderna’s Covid Deals Top $18 Billion; Medical Chief Exits

Moderna Announces it has Shipped Variant-Specific Vaccine Candidate, mRNA-1273.351, to NIH for Clinical Study

February 24, 2021 at 4:17 PM ESTPDF Version

Company also provides update on strategy for addressing SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 24, 2021-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA)

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-it-has-shipped-variant-specific-vaccine

Pfizer-BioNTech Shot Could Help End Pandemic, Israel Study Shows

PFIZER AND BIONTECH INITIATE A STUDY AS PART OF BROAD DEVELOPMENT PLAN TO EVALUATE COVID-19 BOOSTER AND NEW VACCINE VARIANTS

Thursday, February 25, 2021 - 06:45am

The evaluation is part of the Phase 1/2/3 trial and will study a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, BNT162b2, at 30 µg that will be given to Phase 1 participants to evaluate the safety and tolerability of a booster vaccine
Discussions with regulatory authorities are ongoing regarding an additional registration-enabling study using an mRNA vaccine with a variant sequence; this would provide a flexible solution for rapidly adapting the vaccine for use against the B.1.351 lineage or other new strains that may emerge as possible immune escape virus variants
Based on in-vitro studies conducted to date and observations from real world evidence, the Companies have not observed changes to neutralizing antibody levels that would predict a significant reduction in protection provided by two doses of BNT162b2

NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX)

https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer-and-biontech-initiate-study-part-broad-development

Coronavirus Updates

Study Finds Key Differences on 2 Ways Children Become Ill With Covid-19

Children hospitalized with acute Covid-19 seem to have symptoms and characteristics that differ from those with a Covid-linked inflammatory syndrome.

Lilly announces additional doses of neutralizing antibody therapy purchased by U.S. government to treat COVID-19

February 26, 2021 Download PDF INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --

The U.S. government has agreed to purchase a minimum of 100,000 doses of bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) 700 mg and etesevimab (LY-CoV016) 1400 mg together, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced. Bamlanivimab and etesevimab together recently received emergency use authorization for the treatment of recently diagnosed, mild to moderate COVID-19 in patients who are at high risk of progressing to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization.

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lilly-announces-additional-doses-neutralizing-antibody-therapy

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EMA ISSUES ADVICE ON REGENERON'S ANTIBODY COCKTAIL (CASIRIVIMAB WITH IMDEVIMAB) FOR CERTAIN COVID-19 PATIENTS

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --

EU member states can utilize the positive CHMP opinion when making national decisions about use of the antibody cocktail, prior to a potential future EMA market authorization

Regeneron has collaborated with Roche to develop and manufacture the antibody cocktail; Roche is responsible ex-U.S. and has already begun distribution in the EU

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN)

https://investor.regeneron.com/index.php/news-releases/news-release-details/ema-issues-advice-regenerons-antibody-cocktail-casirivimab

Dismay Turns to Outrage as South America’s Powerful Jump the Vaccine Line

A wave of corruption scandals is exposing how the rich and well-connected got vaccinated early. Public outrage is growing.

Novavax and Takeda Finalize License Agreement for Novavax’ COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in Japan; Takeda Initiates Phase 1/2 Trial in Japan

Feb 26, 2021 at 8:22 AM EST Download PDF

Agreement includes COVID-19 vaccine technology transfer to Takeda for local manufacturing and commercialization in Japan
Takeda doses first participant in immunogenicity and safety study to support local regulatory application

GAITHERSBURG, Md., February 25, 2021 -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced progress in its collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited, originally announced in August. The companies have signed an exclusive license agreement for Takeda’s development, manufacturing and commercialization of NVX‑CoV2373, Novavax’ COVID‑19 vaccine candidate, in Japan. Additionally, Takeda dosed the first participants in a Phase 1/2 clinical trial to test the immunogenicity and safety of Novavax’ vaccine candidate in the Japanese population.

https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-and-takeda-finalize-license-agreement-novavax-covid-19

Japan embraces robot ‘pets’ as companions to ease pandemic isolation

•Feb 26, 2021 South China Morning Post

#Coronavirus #Pandemic #Lockdown

Coronavirus pandemic wreaks havoc in the student body | COVID-19 Special

•Feb 25, 2021 DW News

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India donates COVID-19 vaccines to neighboring countries | DW News

•Feb 19, 2021 DW News

Brazil Hits 10 Million Covid Cases With New Strain Taking Hold
Julia Leite, Martha Beck and Caroline Aragaki

CDC Advisers Weigh Second-Shot Delay to Quicken Vaccine Uptake

Anna Edney

#CNN #News #CNNI

Wuhan's first virus outbreak could be bigger than we knew WHO says

•Feb 15, 2021 CNN
Investigators from the World Health Organization studying the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered signs the first outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019 may have been much wider than previously thought. CNN's Nick Paton Walks talks to lead investigator Peter Ben Embarek.

At least three WHO COVID-19 investigators linked with Chinese-institutions

•Feb 14, 2021 Sky News Australia

Coronavirus: A look inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology

Jul 8, 2020 South China Morning Post

Science

Coronavirus: facing criticism and attacks, WHO team readies report on Wuhan probe

Questions have been raised about the findings of the Covid-19 origins mission and the scientists’ access to information in China
All eyes are now on the official reports, with the first expected to be released this week

Simone McCarthy Published: 11:00am, 17 Feb, 2021
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3121934/coronavirus-facing-criticism-and-attacks-who-team-readies-report

What WHO coronavirus investigators did and did not find out in Wuhan | DW News

Feb 10, 2021 DW News

#Gravitas #WHO #WuhanVirus

Gravitas: Wuhan virus origins probe: Is the WHO team divided over the results?

•Feb 11, 2021 WION

#Coronavirus #Disinformation #China

Did China deliberately spread disinformation about the coronavirus? | DW News

•Feb 15, 2021
China has responded with anger to allegations from the US that it withheld information about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak last year. Beijing said Washington had quote 'already gravely damaged international cooperation on COVID- 19' and was now 'pointing fingers at other countries.' The comments come as the US said it had 'deep concerns' about China's handling of a WHO mission investigating the origins of the pandemic in the central city of Wuhan. The WHO team is expected to present their findings as early as this week. Several members of the team said they were happy with the access to information provided by China. But others including Australian microbiologist, Dominic Dwyer said China refused to give then RAW data on early COVID cases and that this could complicate efforts to understand how the outbreak began. With aspects of the WHO mission to China still unclear, the uncertainty over the origins of the coronavirus are compounded by a deliberate disinformation campaign by China.

#Coronavirus #Vaccine #Variants

Vaccine efficacy uncertain as coronavirus variants spread | DW News

•Feb 17, 2021 DW News

Pfizer Shot Elicits Fewer Antibodies Vs. South Africa Strain

By Naomi Kresge and Robert Langreth February 17, 2021, 5:00 PM EST Updated on February 17, 2021, 5:33 PM EST

Companies expect vaccine will still work against the variant
Study results published in New England Journal of Medicine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-17/pfizer-shot-produces-fewer-antibodies-versus-south-africa-strain?srnd=premium

Mayo Clinic AI Study Shows Covid Shots Work Well in Real World

Two months after the first vaccines received U.S. clearance, the shots’ efficacy is holding up.

U.S. Schools Can and Should Open Faster

U.K. Approves Study That Will Deliberately Infect Volunteers With Virus

The idea of such a study, called a human challenge trial, has been hotly debated since the early months of the pandemic.

U.S. deaths are 500,000 higher than normal since the pandemic hit. Here’s the breakdown by state.

#Coronavirus #Medication #Treatment

Sidelined by vaccines? What’s the latest research on COVID medication and treatments?

Feb 16, 2021 DW News

Researchers have been working tirelessly to find an effective treatment for people with COVID-19. Vaccines are stealing the headlines and the financing. That's the main complaint of scientists in search of a COVID therapy. Treatments are still elusive, despite hundreds of drugs being developed or repurposed. But thousands of people are dying from the disease every day. Preventing it from killing people is vital. But doing so can take many forms. Here's a look at the most promising medications being tested.

EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorization of COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen

News 16/02/2021

EMA has received an application for conditional marketing authorisation (CMA) for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Janssen-Cilag International N.V.

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) will assess the vaccine, known as COVID-19 Vaccine Janssen, under an accelerated timetable. The Committee could issue an opinion by the middle of March 2021, provided the company’s data on the vaccine’s efficacy, safety and quality are sufficiently comprehensive and robust.
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-receives-application-conditional-marketing-authorisation-covid-19-vaccine-janssen?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Justin Fox

Is the Worst Over for Covid-19?

A spring wave may be in the cards, but it’s hard to say for sure. Here are the four main variables that will determine it.

#WorldNewsTonight #COVID19 #VaccinationSites

1st federal mass vaccination sites open in Los Angeles and Oakland | WNT

•Feb 16, 2021 ABC News

U.S. Vaccine Data Reveal Big Racial Gaps in Who’s Getting Shots: Covid-19 Tracker

FEBRUARY 17, 20211:16 AMUPDATED 7 HOURS AGO

Taiwan says BioNTech vaccine deal on hold, cites potential Chinese pressure

By Reuters Staff TAIPEI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-taiwan/taiwan-says-biontech-vaccine-deal-on-hold-cites-potential-chinese-pressure-idUSKBN2AH0HE?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Taiwan suggests mainland China pressured BioNTech to abandon Covid-19 vaccine deal

European Commission Purchases Additional 150 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna

February 17, 2021 at 7:12 AM EST PDF Version

150 million doses scheduled to be delivered in Q3 and Q4, 2021

With this new purchase, total of 310 million doses ordered by the European Commission to date for delivery in 2021

Contract includes an option to purchase an additional 150 million doses scheduled for delivery in 2022

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 17, 2021-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, today announced that the European Commission purchased an additional 150 million doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna, which are scheduled to be delivered in the third and fourth quarter of 2021. This brings its confirmed order commitment to 310 million doses for delivery in 2021.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/european-commission-purchases-additional-150-million-doses-covid

Pfizer and BioNTech to Supply the European Union with 200 Million Additional Doses of COMIRNATY®

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New agreement brings total supply to the European Union to 500 million doses, with delivery expected by the end of 2021
European Commission has the option to request an additional 100 million doses

NEW YORK and MAINZ, GERMANY, February 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced an agreement with the European Commission (EC) to supply an additional 200 million doses of COMIRNATY®, the companies’ COVID-19 vaccine, to the 27 European Union (EU) member states. The EC has the option to request supply of an additional 100 million doses.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-supply-european-union-200-million-additional

White House Voices Skepticism on China’s Role in Covid-19 Probe

By Jenny Leonard February 13, 2021, 12:03 PM EST

Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan issues statement
Criticism comes as WHO says probe hasn’t ruled out any cause

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-13/white-house-voices-skepticism-on-china-s-role-in-covid-19-probe?srnd=coronavirus

Millions of jobs unlikely to come back, even after pandemic, economists warn

Businesses are planning for a future of less business travel, more automation and more people working from home. By Heather Long

When Vaccinating Teachers Might Not Be Enough to Open Schools

Oregon is a case study in how Pacific Coast cities are lagging in resuming in-person teaching

Scientists Call on C.D.C. to Set Air Standards for Workplaces, Now

The agency has not fully reckoned with airborne transmission of the coronavirus in settings like hospitals, schools and meatpacking plants, experts said.

Coronavirus origins report has a lot riding on it, global health experts say

Questions have been raised about the findings of the Covid-19 origins mission and the scientists’ access to information in China. All eyes are now on the official reports, with the first expected to be released this week.

#BBCNews

Children take part in new trials for Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine - BBC News

Feb 16, 2021 BBC News

#Gravitas #UK #NewCOVIDVariant

Gravitas: New variant of Wuhan virus discovered in the UK

•Feb 16, 2021 WION

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#ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia

Dr Norman Swan discusses Germany's concerns around the AstraZeneca vaccine in the elderly | ABC News

•Jan 28, 2021 ABC News (Australia) ABC News (Australia)

In race against time on virus mutations, U.S. is ‘falling behind’

America has done so little of the genetic sequencing needed to detect mutated versions of coronavirus, like those first discovered in Britain and South Africa, that such variants are likely proliferating quickly, undetected, experts said. By William Wan and Ben Guarino

U.S.

New Playbook for Covid-19 Protection Emerges After Year of Study, Missteps

Mask-wearing, good air flow and frequent rapid tests are more important than surface cleaning, temperature checks and plexiglass. Scientists say America needs to double down on protection protocols as potentially more-contagious coronavirus variants take hold and vaccines are slow to roll out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-playbook-for-covid-19-protection-emerges-after-year-of-study-missteps-11611680950?mod=e2tw

Fauci calls variant spread within U.S. a ‘wake-up call’ as countries introduce new travel bans

New coronavirus variants — and more yet to come — will challenge existing vaccines’ effectiveness and require the continual production of new versions of vaccine directed at specific mutations, said Anthony S. Fauci, the top U.S. infectious-disease expert.By Erin Cunningham, Kim Bellware, Dan Diamond and Amanda Coletta

What you need to know about the coronavirus variants

Single-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine prevents illness but shows the threat of variants

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Tracking U.S. vaccinations by state

Coronavirus: new clinical trials raise fears the virus is learning how to resist vaccines

Laboratory tests had suggested that the vaccines authorized in the US trigger a smaller immune response to the South Africa variant
More than 100 million people have been infected worldwide, and each of those infections is an opportunity for the virus to randomly mutate

Associated Press Published: 5:10am, 31 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3119939/coronavirus-new-clinical-trials-raise-fears-virus-learning-how

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The E.U. approves AstraZeneca’s vaccine and moves to restrict it from sending doses outside the bloc.

Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works but Fuels Variant Concerns

The vaccine’s efficacy rate dropped from 72 percent in the U.S. to just 57 percent in South Africa, where a highly contagious variant is driving most cases.

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Moderna asks FDA to authorize 5 additional doses per Covid vaccine vial to speed distribution, source tells CNBC

PUBLISHED FRI, JAN 29 20216:27 PM ESTUPDATED FRI, JAN 29 20218:20 PM EST Meg Tirrell KEY POINTS

Moderna is said to have asked the FDA to allow it to put additional doses in its vaccine vials.
The move is aimed at alleviating a bottleneck in Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing.
The change would add up to five doses to the 10-dose vials.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/29/moderna-asks-fda-to-allow-more-doses-in-each-covid-19-vaccine-vial.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

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Vaccine Trade Wars Have Just One Winner: Covid-19

Which vaccine should you get? Here’s what the experts say.

Vaccine Rollout Gives U.K. a Rare Win in Battling Pandemic

“Vaccination is the one thing we’ve gotten right.” Despite botching much of its pandemic response, Britain has managed one of the fastest rollouts.

A Pandemic Is Hard Enough. For Some, Being Single Makes It Harder.

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Tracking Coronavirus Vaccinations Around the World

Almost 85 million vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, equal to 1.1 doses for every 100 people. Most countries have yet to give a single dose.

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Jan 28, 2021 ABC News (Australia) ABC News (Australia)

Coronavirus updates: Variant found in South Africa prompts travel curbs; E.U. seeks answers on vaccine delays

The more virulent strain first found in South Africa presents a serious test to efforts to tame the pandemic, prompting governments to swiftly tighten borders.

By Erin Cunningham

U.S. handling of American evacuees from Wuhan increased coronavirus risks, watchdog finds

The first American evacuees from China were met last year by U.S. officials with no virus-prevention plan or infection control training, according to a federal investigation. By Dan Diamond

Pfizer, BioNTech Covid Vaccine Safe for the Elderly, EMA Says

Mexico’s Death Toll Becomes World’s Third Highest

As of Friday morning, Mexico had recorded 155,145 coronavirus deaths, more than in India. It has had more than 1.8 million cases.

World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Struggles With Virus Variants

Governments Sign Secret Vaccine Deals. Here’s What They Hide.

Multibillion-dollar contracts give drug makers liability shields, patent ownership and leeway on delivery dates and pricing.

Novavax’s Vaccine Works Well, Except on Variant Found in South Africa

An analysis in Britain found that the vaccine had an efficacy rate of nearly 90 percent. In a South Africa trial, the rate dropped to under 50 percent.

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Gravitas: Europe's vaccine rollout disaster

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German expert panel recommends giving AstraZeneca shot only to under 65s

By Reuters Staff BERLIN, Jan 28 (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-astrazeneca/german-expert-panel-recommends-giving-astrazeneca-shot-only-to-under-65s-idUSS8N2J104Y?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

First U.S. cases of South Africa virus variant reported in S.C.

Two people in South Carolina have been infected with the coronavirus variant, which has mutations that scientists say could allow the virus to elude some treatments and threaten vaccines’ effectiveness. Neither person had a recent history of travel.By Joel Achenbach and Carolyn Y. Johnson

What you need to know about the coronavirus variants

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NYC Asks Government Workers to Return to Office in May
Novavax Soars After Upbeat Results From Covid Vaccine Trial

Coronavirus variant sweeps South Africa, exhibiting ‘terrifying’ dominance

Ninety percent of new cases are of the variant, and excess mortality figures have spiked. By Lesley Wroughton and Max Bearak

Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine Demonstrates 89.3% Efficacy in UK Phase 3 Trial

Jan 28, 2021 at 4:05 PM EST Download PDF

First to Demonstrate Clinical Efficacy Against COVID-19 and Both UK and South Africa Variants

Strong efficacy in Phase 3 UK trial with over 50% of cases attributable to the now-predominant UK variant and the remainder attributable to COVID-19 virus
Clinical efficacy demonstrated in Phase 2b South Africa trial with over 90% of sequenced cases attributable to prevalent South Africa escape variant
Company to host investor conference call today at 4:30pm ET

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that NVX-CoV2373, its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate, met the primary endpoint, with a vaccine efficacy of 89.3%, in its Phase 3 clinical trial conducted in the United Kingdom (UK). The study assessed efficacy during a period with high transmission and with a new UK variant strain of the virus emerging and circulating widely. It was conducted in partnership with the UK Government’s Vaccines Taskforce. Novavax also announced successful results of its Phase 2b study conducted in South Africa.

https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-covid-19-vaccine-demonstrates-893-efficacy-uk-phase-3

It’s time to double or upgrade masks as virus variants emerge, experts say

By Fenit Nirappil

South African Covid Variant Detected for the First Time in U.S.

Pfizer CEO Says Science Will Prevail With Covid-19 Here to Stay

The latest pandemic work for women? Snagging vaccine appointments for their parents.

“It’s on me not because any brother or male relative refused to, but because I don’t think it occurred to them,” one Virginia woman said. By Soo Youn

A scathing new documentary from HBO alleges a Chinese cover-up on the coronavirus

How will the government react to an expose? By Steven Zeitchik

Coronavirus Updates

How the Coronavirus Turns the Body Against Itself

Some patients struggling with Covid-19 develop antibodies against their own tissues, scientists have found.

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Nationwide vaccine shortage as COVID-19 variant confirmed in half the country

•Jan 27, 2021 ABC News ABC News

Why Vaccines Might Not Be Able to Eliminate Covid-19

The road to eliminating Covid-19 is long and paved with uncertainty.

Coronavirus: Cambodian scientists find close match for pathogen in samples collected in 2010

Viral sequences in samples from horseshoe bats have 92 per cent similarity to Covid-19 pathogen, researchers say
Closest known relative to the coronavirus was a bat virus found in Yunnan province, which is a 96 per cent match

Simone McCarthy Published: 12:00pm, 28 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3119537/coronavirus-cambodian-scientists-find-close-match-pathogen

How 425,000 Coronavirus Deaths Added Up

It took 44 days after the first U.S. coronavirus death was recorded to reach 25,000 deaths. The most recent 25,000 deaths came in a week.

European Union Vaccine Shortages Snowball Into a Crisis

Spain became the first country to partly suspend immunizations for lack of doses. New York may reopen indoor dining. Catch up on pandemic news.

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The New Virus Strains Make the Next 6 Weeks Crucial

“Let’s not wait until we wrap the car around the tree to start pumping the brakes.”

Voices from the Pandemic

‘I was lucky to find this vaccine anywhere’

Stanley Plotkin, legendary vaccinologist, on the historic development and chaotic distribution of covid-19 vaccinesAs told to Eli Saslow

Health workers in the birthplace of the Brazil variant thought they’d seen the worst of the virus. They had no idea.

By Terrence McCoy and Heloísa Traiano

At first coronavirus briefing, White House acknowledges vaccinations will take months

Top administration officials launched regular briefings on their coronavirus response by seeking to illustrate their fidelity to science and transparency.

By Amy Goldstein and Lena H. Sun

EU's Vestager Says Astra Vaccine Delay Not About Bureaucracy

•Jan 27, 2021 Bloomberg Markets and Finance Bloomberg Markets and Finance

AstraZeneca and EU at loggerheads over COVID-19 vaccine supplies

Jan. 27, 2021 4:02 PM ET AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor

Tensions keep rising between British drug developer AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) and the European Union over the supply delays for the company’s coronavirus vaccine co-developed with the University of Oxford.
The 27-member bloc is far behind in the COVID-19 vaccination drive, with just over 2% of the region’s populations receiving at least one dose compared to over 40% in Israel and 10% in Britain.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3655144-astrazeneca-and-eu-at-loggerheads-over-covid-19-vaccine-supplies

Tensions rise as AstraZeneca, EU spar over vaccine delays

By RAF CASERT, SAMUEL PETREQUIN and DANICA KIRKA

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and drugmaker AstraZeneca sparred Wednesday over a delay in coronavirus vaccine deliveries amid a deepening dispute that raises concerns about international...

EU Officials Say Astra Pulls Out of Crunch Call on Vaccine Delay

E.U. vaccine feud with AstraZeneca bursts into the open; Biden vows to boost supply

By Erin Cunningham, Paul Schemm, Loveday Morris and Marisa Iati

U.S. Needs 500 Million Doses to Vaccinate Everyone 16 and Older

Biden officials set out another target for vaccination.

Pandemic Gets Increasingly Local as U.S. Cases Keep Dropping

More contagious virus variants have spread to dozens of countries, says WHO

Coronavirus: more contagious variants have spread to dozens of countries, says WHO

The strain first spotted in Britain has reached 70 countries, while the one first found in South Africa has spread to 31 countries A third variant, discovered in Brazil, is now in eight countries

Agence France-Presse Published: 1:54am, 28 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3119526/coronavirus-more-contagious-variants-have-spread-dozens-countries-says

Moderna Confirms Discussions with U.S. Government for Additional 100 Million Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

January 27, 2021 at 8:20 AM ESTPDF Version

Would bring total to 300 million doses ordered by the U.S government to date

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2021-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA), a biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines today confirmed that the Company is in discussion with the U.S. government to purchase an additional 100 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for delivery in the third quarter of 2021.

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-confirms-discussions-us-government-additional-100

The spread of other dangerous germs is surging — a result, in part, of the chaotic response to the pandemic.

Virus will kill many more, WH projects as briefings resume

By ZEKE MILLER and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration launched its new level-with-America health briefings Wednesday with a projection that as many as 90,000 more in the U.S. will die from the coronavirus in...

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The Latest: FEMA to reimburse states for some pandemic costs

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#Coronavirus #AstraZenica #Vaccine

Did AstraZeneca mislead the European Union? | DW News

•Jan 27, 2021 DW News DW News

E.U. vaccine feud with AstraZeneca bursts into the open; Biden vows to boost supply

It’s unclear whether increasing U.S. vaccine numbers will help return schools to in-person learning. A CDC report said that schools haven't been a major center of transmission.By Erin Cunningham and Paul Schemm

‘Solidarity Is Failing’: E.U. and Britain Fight Over Scarce Vaccines

As vaccine production falls behind schedule and the European Union lags in inoculating people, Britain and Europe are lobbing accusations at each other.

EU-Astra Vaccine Dispute Descends Into Chaos Over Crunch Call

January 27 2021

Sanofi to provide support to BioNTech in manufacturing their COVID-19 vaccine to help address public health needs

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Sanofi to provide support to BioNTech in manufacturing their COVID-19 vaccine to help address public health needs

Sanofi will provide BioNTech access to its state-of-the-art production infrastructure
From summer 2021, Sanofi will perform late-stage manufacturing to supply over 125 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine for the European Union
This agreement between the two Companies reflects the shared commitment to increase vaccine accessibility

MEDIA UPDATE - JANUARY 27, 2021

https://www.sanofi.com/en/media-room/press-releases/2021/2021-01-27-07-30-00

Pfizer-BioNTech to Make 125 Million New Vaccine Doses in First-Ever Licensing Deal

Sanofi to Make Millions of BioNTech-Pfizer Vaccine Doses

By Tim Loh January 27, 2021, 3:01 AM EST Updated on January 27, 2021, 5:15 AM EST

Collaboration will help boost European Union’s vaccine supply
Companies pledge more than 125 million doses of mRNA shot

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-27/sanofi-to-make-millions-of-biontech-pfizer-s-covid-vaccine-doses?srnd=premium

EU-Astra Vaccine Dispute Descends Into Chaos Over Crunch Call
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Biden’s Moves to Boost Vaccine Supply Won’t Sate Soaring Demand

Teachers are moving to the front of the vaccine line — but that doesn’t mean all schools will reopen quickly

By Hannah Natanson, Donna St. George and Perry Stein

January 27, 2021 at 7:00 AM EST

REGEN-COV™ ANTIBODY COCKTAIL IS ACTIVE AGAINST SARS-COV-2 VARIANTS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN THE UK AND SOUTH AFRICA

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --

Columbia University researchers and Regeneron have independently confirmed findings; data included in bioRxiv paper and submitted for peer-reviewed publication

https://newsroom.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regen-covtm-antibody-cocktail-active-against-sars-cov-2-variants

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‘It is just very disturbing’: City Council wants answers as questions build over severed Philly Fighting COVID partnership

by Ellie Silverman, Ellie Rushing and Oona Goodin-Smith The city said the group failed to promptly disclose its switch to a for-profit business and its privacy policy outlined ways personal information given by residents could be sold.

A Philly private school got COVID-19 vaccines for its teachers. Then its clinic was canceled.

by Jason Laughlin and Maddie Hanna

Springside Chestnut Hill Academy’s aborted effort to vaccinate its staff highlighted the confusion and potential for inequity surrounding the hopes for protection from COVID-19 for school personnel.

Covid Deaths Persist in U.S. Even as Cases Drop Everywhere

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EU threatens to impose controls on Pfizer vaccine exports

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New Jersey launched a vaccine hotline. Four hours later, 58,000 calls had flooded in.

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Global Cases Top 100 Million; N.J. May Relax Curbs: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsJanuary 25, 2021, 6:16 PM EST Updated on January 26, 2021, 4:46 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-25/who-warns-on-vaccine-u-n-issues-call-for-equity-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

100,000: Why is the UK's death toll so bad?

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CDC finds scant coronavirus spread in schools, particularly with masks and distancing in place

Some indoor athletics, however, have led to infections and should be curtailed if schools want to operate safely, researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in newly published papers. By Laura Meckler

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Sanofi to help produce 100 million Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine doses

By Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-sanofi/sanofi-to-help-produce-100-million-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-doses-idUSKBN29V23Y?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Pfizer/ BioNTech to speed up COVID-19 vaccine supply

Jan. 26, 2021 9:28 AM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor12 Comments

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3654371-pfizer-biontech-to-speed-up-covid-19-vaccine-supply

It will increase the vaccine supply by 20%, Mr. Bourla had said previously, and the FDA issued a label change in that regard last week.
https://twitter.com/BloombergLive/status/1354062624049274885?s=20&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Facing a scary coronavirus strain, U.K. is running a high-stakes, real-world vaccine experiment

By William Booth and Karla Adam

Darden Offers Paid Time Off for Employees to Get Covid Vaccine

The Pandemic Disaster That Might Not Matter

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One Pa. county sees sharp spike in cases; city severs partnership with Philly Fighting COVID; Pfizer to deliver vaccine doses to U.S. faster than expected

by Rob Tornoe, Laura McCrystal, Erin McCarthy and Robert Moran

The Pandemic Is Finally Softening. Will That Last?

The pandemic is softening, but the reprieve may not last.

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Pfizer to Deliver U.S. Vaccine Doses Faster Than Expected: CEO

By Riley Griffin January 26, 2021, 8:51 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-26/pfizer-to-deliver-u-s-vaccine-doses-faster-than-expected-ceo?srnd=premium

New data show treatment with Lilly's neutralizing antibodies bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) and etesevimab (LY-CoV016) together reduced risk of COVID-19 hospitalizations and death by 70 percent

January 26, 2021Download PDF- BLAZE-1 trial met primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints with high statistical significance
- Results from more than 1,000 high-risk patients were consistent with previous data
- Findings from BLAZE-4 trial provide data on lower doses of bamlanivimab and etesevimab together
- Media and investor call "SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibody Program Update" to be held at noon EST today; details below

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) 2800 mg and etesevimab (LY-CoV016) 2800 mg together significantly reduced COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths (collectively, "events") in high-risk patients recently diagnosed with COVID-19, meeting the primary endpoint of the Phase 3 BLAZE-1 trial, Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) announced. Across 1,035 patients, there were 11 events (2.1 percent) in patients taking therapy and 36 events (7.0 percent) in patients taking placebo, representing a 70 percent risk reduction (p= 0.0004). There were 10 deaths total, all of which occurred in patients taking placebo, and no deaths in patients taking bamlanivimab and etesevimab together.

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/new-data-show-treatment-lillys-neutralizing-antibodies

Eli Lilly (LLY -0.02%) reports new data from Phase 3 Blaze-1 trial, evaluating bamlanivimab and etesevimab antibody combination in critically-ill COVID-19 patients.

A Study of LY3819253 (LY-CoV555) and LY3832479 (LY-CoV016) in Participants With Mild to Moderate COVID-19 Illness (BLAZE-1)

https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04427501

Can India outshine China with Covid-19 vaccine diplomacy?

India is donating millions of AstraZeneca shots to countries including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Mauritius
New Delhi says 92 nations including Cambodia, a close ally of Beijing, are interested in vaccines produced by the Serum Institute of India

Subir Bhaumik Published: 12:05pm, 26 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3119194/can-india-outshine-china-covid-19-vaccine-diplomacy

In U.K., Concern Grows Over Vaccine Hesitancy Among Minority Groups

There are increasing calls to prioritize people of color, who have been harder hit. But many mistrust the authorities — and the shots’ safety.

Biden now hopes for 1.5 million vaccinations a day, a big jump from earlier comments

On Monday, President Biden said he could envision 1.5 million U.S. vaccinations per day. The recalibration reflects the reality that the country is already close to the million-a-day pace. By Annie Linskey

U.S. Falters in DNA Testing to Detect Dangerous Covid Mutations

Surging Covid Cases Shut Down Thai Conglomerate’s Northeast China Unit

More than 100 positive cases have been identified in the city of Harbin, all of which are thought to be linked to a local food production subsidiary of CP Group

Jan 26, 2021 07:24 PM

Explainer | How the Covid-19 vaccines compare and who can get them

The race to carry out the biggest inoculation programme in history has begun, with six products approved and more to follow.

Indonesia hits 1 million cases; Australians defy Covid-19 curbs

Elsewhere, New Zealand is closing in on approving a Covid-19 vaccine, and the Serum Institute of India says it has no plans to divert vaccine supplies to Europe despite production problems there.

Moderna says vaccine works against new Covid-19 variants

Lab tests show shot produces comparable antibody protection against UK strain, but immunity may wane more quickly for South Africa variant.

26 Jan 2021 - 2:00PM

STOPPING THE NEXT ONE | INFECTIOUS DISEASE

The coronavirus 10 times more deadly than Covid

By Jacob Kushner in Marsabit, Kenya 25th January 2021

In northern Kenya, researchers are working to prevent a dangerous coronavirus – Mers – from jumping from camels to humans again. But climate change is making their job more difficult.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210122-the-coronavirus-10-times-more-deadly-than-covid

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Florida tightens Covid-19 vaccination requirements across the state

•Jan 25, 2021 CNBC Television CNBC Television

Life after the COVID-19 vaccine: Americans won’t rush back to restaurants and ballgames — or public transportation

Last Updated: Jan. 25, 2021 at 6:16 p.m. ET First Published: Jan. 25, 2021 at 11:07 a.m. ET

By Elisabeth Buchwald

‘The arrival of vaccines won’t automatically flip a switch to put the world back on its pre-COVID path,’ said Scott McKenzie, global intelligence leader at Nielsen

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/life-after-the-covid-19-vaccine-americans-wont-rush-back-to-restaurants-ball-games-or-public-transportation-11611590839?mod=home-page

Coronavirus: Germany to use new antibody-based drug

Health Minister Jens Spahn has said the government has purchased a new drug to help fight COVID-19 amid a vaccine shortage. Germany will be the first EU nation to use the medicine, which was also given to Donald Trump.

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-germany-to-use-new-antibody-based-drug/a-56328493?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Developing our Novel Anti-Viral Antibody Cocktail

Casirivimab and imdevimab form a novel monoclonal antibody cocktail being studied for its potential both to treat appropriate patients with COVID-19 and to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Casirivimab and imdevimab are investigational therapies and have been authorized by the FDA for the emergency use described below. Casirivimab and imdevimab must be administered together. Casirivimab and imdevimab are not FDA approved for any use. Safety and effectiveness of casirivimab and imdevimab have not been fully established for the treatment of COVID-19.

https://www.regeneron.com/covid19

California Lifts Stay-at-Home Orders in Much of the State

Officials lifted severe virus restrictions in many areas, allowing some outdoor dining and personal care businesses to reopen. Here’s the latest on Covid-19.

Schools Were Set to Reopen. Then the Teachers’ Union Stepped In.

Students didn’t return to elementary schools in Montclair, N.J., as planned after a tense debate and a boycott of prep sessions by some educators.

First U.S. case of Brazil variant identified in Minnesota

State health authorities said the case of the highly transmissible variant involved “a Minnesota resident with recent travel history to Brazil” and was detected through random surveillance of blood samples. By Joel Achenbach

N.Y. to Start Easing Curbs; Dutch Riot Over Curfew: Virus Update

As Virus Grows Stealthier, Vaccine Makers Reconsider Battle Plans

Vaccines by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech protect recipients. But in a worrying sign, they are slightly less effective against a variant found in South Africa.

Florida reports 153 coronavirus resident deaths, 8,720 new cases

Florida’s resident death toll from coronavirus rose to 25,446 with the addition of 153 more reported fatalities on Monday while also adding 8,720 more positive COVID-19 cases to bring the total to 1,658,169.By RICHARD TRIBOU

Moderna Is Working on a Vaccine Booster for a New Variant

Moderna vaccine protects against British, S. African variants, company says

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Fauci Says He’s Worried About Delaying Second Vaccine Dose

Thomas Mulier and Corinne Gretler

An Organ Recital, With a Coronavirus Shot

Salisbury Cathedral is joining Britain’s vaccination drive, and its organists are providing a musical accompaniment. They’re even taking requests.

New coronavirus variants are an urgent threat. Here’s what you need to know

Skelton: It shouldn’t be this hard getting COVID-19 vaccine into people’s arms

One Country Has Jumped Ahead on Vaccinations

URI FRIEDMAN JANUARY 23, 2021

Google to invest millions in coronavirus vaccine education and access

Coronavirus crisis: Vaccine rollout grows amid travel ban and variant concerns

•Jan 25, 2021 ABC News ABC News

Jan 25, 2021 07:57 PM CHINA

Leading Chinese Drug Researcher Calls for Greater Transparency on China Vaccines

By Wang Lijun, Wang Zhuoqing and Timmy Shen

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01-25/leading-chinese-drug-researcher-calls-for-greater-transparency-on-china-vaccines-101655572.html

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Exclusive: Pfizer wants India to order COVID-19 vaccine before pursuing approval

By Krishna N. Das NEW DELHI (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-india-pfizer-idUSKBN29U1OA?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Virus Variants Push Nations to Lock Down and Zip Up Borders

NYC to Miss 1 Million-Shot Goal, Delay Megasites Amid Shortage

“We’re not going to be able to soar until we get more supply,” Mayor de Blasio says.

How West Virginia Became a U.S. Leader in Vaccine Rollout

About 9 percent of all West Virginians have received a first dose of the coronavirus vaccine, a larger segment than almost every other state.

President Biden Is Vowing to Reopen Schools Quickly. It Won’t Be Easy.

Fights between districts and unions — as well as fear among teachers and parents — could make it hard to fulfill the promise.

To Promote Shot, New Orleans Dances With Heart on Sleeve

An upbeat ‘Sleeves Up, NOLA’ campaign deftly uses local personalities and the Carnival dance culture to encourage citizens to get a Covid-19 vaccine.

Pandemic aftershocks overwhelm global supply lines, threatening higher prices for consumers

By David J. Lynch

Global Crisis Damage From Covid-19 Is Now About 255 Million Jobs

Even under the most optimistic assumptions, working hours will still be lower compared to pre-crisis levels.

Deborah Birx said Trump was being given ‘parallel data’ on covid-19

By Teo Armus

Moderna Developing Booster Shot Against South Africa Strain

Moderna said its Covid-19 vaccine appeared to protect against emerging strains in lab tests, but due to a weaker immune response, the company will develop a booster shot targeting the variant first identified in South Africa.

Coronavirus: EU locks horns with AstraZeneca on vaccine deliveries amid ‘supply shock’

The drug maker is struggling to meet supply targets up to the end of March
Australia and Thailand are among countries that face supply cuts, with the latter to get some 150,000 doses instead of the 1 million it had initially requested

Reuters Published: 11:52pm, 25 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3119208/eu-urges-astrazeneca-hasten-covid-19-vaccine-deliveries-amid

Oxygen Scarcity Swells Covid-19’s Death Toll

As Covid-19 cases increase sharply in much of the world, a scarcity of oxygen is forcing hospitals to ration it for patients. The problem is especially acute in the developing world, but has also hit hospitals in London and Los Angeles.

Covid-19 Vaccine: What You Need to Know When You Get the Shot

Doctors answer questions about preparing for the Covid-19 vaccine

By Alina Dizik Updated Jan. 23, 2021 4:01 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-what-you-need-to-know-when-you-get-the-shot-11610895600?mod=trending_now_pos3

Why Delaying the Second Covid Vaccine Shot Is Messy

John Lauerman and Jason Gale 1/25/21, 2:43 AM EST

A Guide to the New Covid-19 Testing Rules for Travel to the U.S.

The CDC will require preflight testing as Covid-19 cases continue to soar and new strains of the virus emerge

By Alison Sider Updated Jan. 22, 2021 2:59 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-covid-19-testing-rules-for-travel-to-the-u-s-what-they-mean-for-you-11610566341?mod=trending_now_pos2

U.S. to Boost Surveillance of Virus Variants, CDC Head Says

Tony Czuczka and Craig Torres 1/24/21, 1:15 PM EST

#nanographics #visualization #biology

What does a virus actually look like?

1Jan 18, 2021 Too Dope for Microscope

Real SARS-CoV-2 virion in 3D

What does a virus actually look like?

This is the first time you can see real (flash-frozen) coronavirus in 3D. We used machine learning and advanced visualization algorithms to show you the most detailed view of a real SARS-CoV-2 virion, in 3D, directly from Cryo-ET data.

https://nanographics.at/projects/coronavirus-3d/
https://nanographics.at/

The Cryo-ET data were provided by Sai Li of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/index.htm

The structure of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

•Apr 30, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IB3ujgoniVQ&feature=emb_logo

Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

https://nanographics.at/projects/sars-cov-2/

First 3D scan of the real coronavirus revealed

•Jan 25, 2021
South China Morning Post South China Morning Post

Real SARS-CoV-2 virion in 3D

What does a virus actually look like?

https://nanographics.at/projects/coronavirus-3d/
https://nanographics.at/

The Cryo-ET data were provided by Sai Li of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

https://www.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/index.htm

Covid-19 pandemic: in-depth analysis one year after Wuhan

Updated: 15 Jan 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/series/3113354/covid-19-pandemic-depth-analysis-one-year-after-wuhan?module=coivd_table&pgtype=homepage

novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 病毒：新型冠状病毒 2019-nCoV

Doctors' leaders warn vaccine second dose delay may "undermine effectiveness" - BBC News

•Jan 23, 2021 BBC News BBC News

Why Delaying the Second Covid Vaccine Shot Is Messy

Surge of Student Suicides Pushes Las Vegas Schools to Reopen

Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the the pandemic lockdown’s toll.

Economics World’s Economic Recovery Gets Delayed by Slow Vaccine Rollouts

What if You Never Get Better From Covid-19?

Some patients could live with the aftereffects for years. Research into another persistent, mysterious disease might help us understand how to treat them.

“An incredible scale of tragedy”: The U.S. has surpassed 25 million coronavirus cases. Catch up on the latest.

As more people become eligible to get vaccinated in the region, dosage supply remains an issue

Canceled appointments, long waits and uncertainty about future vaccine shipments dominate. By Jenna Portnoy

Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Retains Neutralizing Activity Against Emerging Variants First Identified in the U.K. and the Republic of South Africa

January 25, 2021 at 8:28 AM ESTPDF Version

Out of an abundance of caution, Moderna launches clinical program to boost immunity to emerging variants

Manuscript posted to preprint server; company to host conference call once manuscript is available

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 25, 2021-- Moderna Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA)

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-covid-19-vaccine-retains-neutralizing-activity-against

Vaccines May Work Less Well on Variants, U.K.’s Hancock Says

Joe Mayes 1/24/21, 5:41 AM EST

Coronavirus updates: 17% of US has been infected, model estimates; Capitol Police, National Guard outbreaks reported

Grace Hauck USA TODAY Updated 4:02 PM ET January 23, 2021

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/01/23/covid-cases-updates-larry-king-dies-after-being-hospitalized-covid-19/6674844002/

FDA gives approval for syringes to extract an extra dose from vials of Covid-19 vaccine

By Travis Caldwell, Dakin Andone and Jason Hanna, CNN updated 0442 GMT (1242 HKT) January 24, 2021

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/23/us/us-coronavirus-saturday/index.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine supply to rise with FDA label change

Jan. 23, 2021 11:48 PM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor11 Comments

The FDA has approved an updated label for Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)/BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX)

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3653734-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine-supply-to-rise-with-fda-label-change

COVID-19 vaccination: CDC guidance updated; Case counts decline

Jan. 23, 2021 10:59 PM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor42 Comments

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) has updated the guidance in COVID-19 vaccination allowing the two vaccines currently approved in the U.S. to use interchangeably in rare cases. The updated clinical considerations posted on Friday also allow the follow-up dose of the two-dose regimen to delay up to six weeks.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3653733-covid-19-vaccination-cdc-guidance-updated-case-counts-decline

Interchangeability with other COVID-19 vaccine products

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/info-by-product/clinical-considerations.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link#Interchangeability

#CNBC #CNBCTV

Dr. Scott Gottlieb on Covid-19 vaccine distribution, case counts and new variants

•Jan 22, 2021 CNBC Television CNBC Television

Biden Predicts More Than 600,000 U.S. Virus Deaths

“No matter how you look at it, we need to act,” President Biden said. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

Colchicine reduces the risk of COVID-19-related complications

Positive results from COLCORONA trial show that colchicine is the only effective oral medication for treating non-hospitalized patients

January 22, 2021 22:58 ET | Source: Montreal Heart Institute MONTREAL, Jan. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Montreal Heart Institute (MHI)

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2021/01/23/2163109/0/en/Colchicine-reduces-the-risk-of-COVID-19-related-complications.html

MONTREAL | News

Quebec researchers say they have found an effective drug to fight COVID-19

The Canadian Press Staff Contact Published Saturday, January 23, 2021 7:51AM EST

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-researchers-say-they-have-found-an-effective-drug-to-fight-covid-19-1.5279310

Where to get the COVID-19 vaccine in Central Florida

Latest COVID vaccine updates for Central Florida: 1.1 million 1st doses given statewide, 266k more coming next week

Trump’s Top Health Officials –Fauci, Birx, Redfield – Now Unload Frustration

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/01/23/trumps-top-health-officials-fauci-birx-redfieldnow-unload-frustrations-with-ex-president/?sh=487ba9e67fd8

CORONAVIRUS

A year since COVID came to Chicago, and, despite difficulties, people have found ways to manage

By Stefano Esposito

CORONAVIRUS

Statewide coronavirus positivity rate dips below 5% for first time in 3 months as Chicago restaurants reopen

The positivity rate is still higher than it was over the summer, when it hovered around 3%, but it’s been on a sharp decline since Jan. 7.

By Mitchell Armentrout Today at 1:53pm EST

Pandemic Numbers Are (Finally) Tiptoeing in the Right Direction

THE COVID TRACKING PROJECT

Why Israel’s Vaccine Success Might Be Hard to Replicate

URI FRIEDMAN 6:00 AM ET

The Atlantic Daily: The Battle to Contain the Pandemic Enters a New Phase

CAROLINE MIMBS NYCE JANUARY 21, 2021

Why Aren’t We Wearing Better Masks?

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI JEREMY HOWARD

Health & Environment

Hong Kong lockdown: 10,000 confined for massive Covid-19 testing operation in Yau Tsim Mong, as fleeing residents prompt implementation review

Government declares lockdown of an estimated 200 buildings in area of Yau Tsim Mong spanning nearly 500,000 sq ft
About 3,000 civil servants including police and other disciplined services officers are expected to be deployed for the unprecedented screening operation

Chris Lau, Denise Tsang, Phila Siu and Christy Leung

Published: 5:20am, 23 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3118929/hong-kong-lockdown-police-cordon-about-200

Lopez: Here’s how I broke through and got a COVID vaccine. Let’s hope it gets easier

#EU #Astrazeneca #Pfizer

After Pfizer, Astrazeneca cuts down the supply to EU by 60% | World News | WION News

•Jan 23, 2021 WION WION

AstraZeneca informs EU officials about vaccine delivery shortfall - Bild

Author of the article: Reuters Ludwig Burger Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 • 23 hours ago •

Article content FRANKFURT —

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/astrazeneca-informs-eu-officials-about-vaccine-delivery-shortfall-bild?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

AstraZeneca informs European Union of vaccine delivery issues: Bild

Jan. 22, 2021 1:12 PM ET AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) By: Vandana Singh, SA News Editor2 Comments

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3653640-astrazeneca-informs-european-union-of-vaccine-delivery-issues-bild

JANUARY 21, 20215:01 AMUPDATED 2 DAYS AGO

Fire at India's Serum Institute kills 5, AstraZeneca vaccine output unaffected

By Reuters Staff NEW DELHI (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-india-serum-idUSKBN29Q15B?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Fire at world's largest vaccine producer kills five

The company says production of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has not been affected. India

Why the Mutated Coronavirus Variants Are So Worrisome

By Jason GaleDecember 20, 2020, 11:04 PM EST Updated on January 22, 2021, 2:41 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/why-the-u-k-s-mutated-coronavirus-is-fanning-worries-quicktake

Thailand approves AstraZeneca vaccine amid second virus wave

Bloomberg PUBLISHED ON JAN 21, 2021 05:27 PM IST

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/thailand-approves-astrazeneca-vaccine-amid-second-virus-wave-101611229909696.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Pfizer and BioNTech Reach Agreement with COVAX for Advance Purchase of Vaccine to Help Combat COVID-19

PDF Version

Initial agreement provides up to 40 million doses to COVAX in 2021
First deliveries are expected to take place in Q1 2021 subject to the execution of supply agreements under the COVAX Facility structure
For the COVAX Advanced Market Commitment 92 countries, Pfizer and BioNTech will provide the vaccine to COVAX at a not-for-profit price

NEW YORK CITY, NY and MAINZ, GERMANY, January 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pfizer and BioNTech SE today announced an advance purchase agreement with COVAX for up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. The doses will be delivered throughout 2021.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-reach-agreement-covax-advance-purchase

Covid: Delayed Pfizer vaccine gap 'unacceptable' says BMA Cymru

Senior doctors in Wales warn a delayed gap between the first and second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine would be "entirely unacceptable and potentially dangerous".

The British Medical Association Wales (BMA Cymru) has joined calls for the 12-week wait to be halved.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-55781860

The WHO declared COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern, the highest level of alarm under international law, on January 30, 2020 and a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Since then, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to move at record speed.

https://biontech.de/covid-19-portal/covid-19-disease

#BBC #BBCiPlayer #BBCNews

Coronavirus: UK variant 'may be more deadly' 🔴 @BBC News live - BBC

•Jan 23, 2021 BBC BBC

Coronavirus: UK variant 'may be more deadly'

By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55768627?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

New Pandemic Plight: Hospitals Are Running Out of Vaccines

Slow Vaccine Campaign Remains a ‘Puzzle’ to Ex-Warp Speed Chief

Moncef Slaoui says a fragmented U.S. health-care system is partly to blame for the halting pace of the Covid-19 vaccine rollout

By Riley Griffin January 23, 2021, 9:00 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-23/slow-vaccine-campaign-remains-a-puzzle-to-ex-warp-speed-chief?srnd=premium

Mass Covid-19 screening in Beijing after two cases of strain found in Britain

More than 2 million people will be tested in two downtown districts as key political season looms
Shopping centres and sporting venues transformed into testing stations overnight

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 8:00am, 23 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3118908/mass-covid-19-screening-beijing-after-two-cases-strain-found

Japan virus death toll tops 5,000; Malaysia cases hit new daily high

The pace of deaths has accelerated recently, forcing Japanese PM Suga to declare a state of emergency in 11 prefectures.

U.S. largely avoided Christmas coronavirus surge, but experts warn the threat could intensify with new variants

By Fenit Nirappil

France May Delay Second Doses; Swedish Response: Virus Update

Bloomberg News January 22, 2021, 5:18 PM EST Updated on January 23, 2021, 7:20 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/u-s-hospital-rates-fall-n-y-vaccines-run-short-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Oxygen Shortage Plunges the Amazon's Capital Into a Covid Nightmare
Shannon Sims and Jonne Roriz 1/23/21, 7:00 AM EST

Swedish Prime Minister Admits Strategy to Stop Virus Fell Short
Frances Schwartzkopff 1/23/21, 5:56 AM EST

Norway Locks Down Oslo Area to Fight Spread of New Covid Variant
Stephen Treloar 1/23/21, 4:27 AM EST

Young L.A. ‘vaccine chasers’ crowd unofficial standby lines in hopes of a shot

New coronavirus strain “may be more deadly” says Boris Johnson - BBC News

•Jan 22, 2021 BBC News BBC News

Opinion Outside In by David Dodwell

With economic catastrophe looming, we can’t wait until everyone is vaccinated to get back to business as usual

The pandemic’s savage economic impact is, at present, being mitigated by widespread support packages, but such massive spending cannot go on much longer
Instead of each country working for itself, leaders should agree on global protocols so we can save jobs and resume work amid the pandemic

David Dodwell Published: 12:30am, 23 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3118739/economic-catastrophe-looming-we-cant-wait-until-everyone-vaccinated

Can my employer require me to get the COVID-19 vaccine?

by Juliana Feliciano Reyes

L.A. County won’t be fully vaccinated till 2022 unless pace improves, Garcetti warns

Tracking coronavirus vaccinations in California

As COVID soars, so does unemployment in California

Getting the COVID-19 vaccine in L.A.: Confusion, waiting, tears and triumph

Florida coronavirus resident deaths pass 25k with 272 new reported fatalities, 2nd-most ever

Amazon offers to assist with COVID-19 vaccine distribution in the U.S.

In an open letter to President Biden, Amazon offers ‘to leverage our operations, information technology and communications’ to help distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

What happens when the COVID-19 vaccine enters your arm

by Tom Avril and Dominique DeMoe

Novavax and Government of Canada Finalize Advance Purchase Agreement for COVID-19 Vaccine

Jan 22, 2021 at 5:22 PM EST Download PDF Canadian government commits to purchase 52 million doses with option for additional 24 million of Novavax candidate vaccine, NVX-CoV2373

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a late-stage biotechnology company developing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that it has finalized an agreement with the Government of Canada to supply up to 76 million doses of NVX-CoV2373, the company’s recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine. Canada has committed to purchase 52 million doses of the vaccine with the option for up to an additional 24 million doses. NVX-CoV2373 is currently in Phase 3 clinical development for the prevention of COVID-19.

https://ir.novavax.com/news-releases/news-release-details/novavax-and-government-canada-finalize-advance-purchase

Dallas County, Foiled by State, Seeks More Vaccine Equity

How to sign up for a Philly COVID-19 vaccine alert that will tell you it’s your turn

by Grace Dickinson

Wuhan marks its anniversary with triumph and denial

By John Sudworth BBC News, Wuhan Published15 hours ago

Coronavirus pandemic

Wuhan has long since recovered from the world's first outbreak of Covid-19. It is now being remembered not as a disaster but as a victory, and with an insistence that the virus came from somewhere - anywhere - but here.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55765875

Bats, roadblocks and the origins of coronavirus

21 December 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asia-55404485

#WorldNewsTonight #COVID19 #COVID19Variant

Race to vaccinate amid new COVID-19 variant in California | WNT

Jan 21, 2021 ABC News ABC News

Boris Johnson says U.K. variant may be more deadly

Johnson is the first world leader to say the variant — first identified in England and already spreading globally — “may be associated with a higher degree of mortality.”By William Booth

Denmark is sequencing all coronavirus samples and has an alarming view of the U.K. variant

The variant is spreading at an alarming rate and isn’t responding to established ways of slowing the pandemic, Danish scientists say.By Michael Birnbaum and Martin Selsoe Sorensen

Coronavirus: UK variant 'may be more deadly'

By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55768627

IMMUNE RESPONSE | COVID-19

How effective is a single vaccine dose against Covid-19?

Pretend it didn't happen – expert advice on how to behave after receiving a single dose of any of the Covid-19 vaccines.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210114-covid-19-how-effective-is-a-single-vaccine-dose

Coronavirus mutations pose challenge to vaccine makers

Studies send mixed messages whether the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will be able to tackle the variant that emerged in Britain
New strains of the virus add to challenge of fighting Covid-19

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 9:30pm, 22 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3118897/coronavirus-mutations-pose-challenge-vaccine-makers

Wall Street Presses New York to Let It Help Speed Vaccines

U.K. Warns More Deadly New Strain Makes Lifting Lockdown Harder
Cuomo Says New York to Run Out of Vaccine Allocation Friday
Covid-19 Vaccine Doses May Be Spaced Six Weeks Apart, CDC Says

CDC Finds One in 400,000 Had Anaphylaxis After Moderna Shot

Allergies and Anaphylaxis

https://www.webmd.com/allergies/anaphylaxis

Pfizer and BioNTech Reach Agreement with COVAX for Advance Purchase of Vaccine to Help Combat COVID-19

Initial agreement provides up to 40 million doses to COVAX in 2021
First deliveries are expected to take place in Q1 2021 subject to the execution of supply agreements under the COVAX Facility structure
For the COVAX Advanced Market Commitment 92 countries, Pfizer and BioNTech will provide the vaccine to COVAX at a not-for-profit price.

NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Pfizer and BioNTech SE today announced an advance purchase agreement with COVAX for up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. The doses will be delivered throughout 2021.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210122005366/en/

Vaccines Can Handle New Covid Virus Strains, Fauci Says

•Jan 21, 2021 Bloomberg Markets and Finance Bloomberg Markets and Finance

In a new administration, Fauci clearly enjoys being unshackled

By Philip Bump

Fauci didn’t mince words in his first appearance under the Biden administration.

Why some vaccine sits on shelves as shortages intensify

Confusion over nursing home set-asides, uncertainty about the status of second doses and reluctance to order vaccine that might go unused mean some doses remain in warehouses.By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Lena H. Sun

Why is the U.S. vaccine rollout taking longer than expected?

Jan. 22, 2021 4:20 AM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor62 Comments

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3653444-why-is-us-vaccine-rollout-taking-longer-than-expected

Hong Kong to Set First Lockdown in Kowloon Area, Media Say

As Rumors Swirl, These Five Factors Will Decide the Fate of the Tokyo Olympics

PMN Business

AstraZeneca informs EU officials about vaccine delivery shortfall - Bild

Author of the article: Reuters Ludwig Burger Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 FRANKFURT

https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/astrazeneca-informs-eu-officials-about-vaccine-delivery-shortfall-bild?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

China’s CanSino Offers Pakistan 20 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Doses

Local partner AJM Pharma reports plans to disclose late-stage efficacy results ‘in a few days’ as world’s fifth-most populous country lags behind in starting inoculations

Jan 23, 2021 06:10 AM

Shanghai Hotel Marked as Medium Risk in New Covid Outbreak

Three new cases have come from the Salvo Hotel in the city’s downtown Huangpu district

Jan 22, 2021 08:21 PM

Brazil battling deadly new Covid variant and world’s second-highest mortality rates - BBC News

•Jan 22, 2021 BBC News BBC News

Here's where to get COVID-19 vaccinations in New Jersey, but supplies are scarce

Scott Fallon NorthJersey.com Updated 3:49 pm ET January 21, 2021

https://www.app.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/01/14/nj-covid-vaccine-appointment-sites-near-me-county-doses-limited/4157563001/

Two cases of more contagious new COVID strain in New Jersey confirmed by officials

Lindy Washburn NorthJersey.com Updated 5:40 pm ET January 22 2021

https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/coronavirus/2021/01/22/nj-confirms-2-cases-new-more-contagious-covid-strain-state/6673061002/

Combatting COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy in Camden

CAMDEN — Dr. Stephanie Santoro admitted that, as a health care professional practicing in Camden, "it feels amazing" to be able to vaccinate people against COVID-19.

Phaedra Trethan Cherry Hill Courier-Post Updated 6:58 pm ET January 21, 2021

https://www.courierpostonline.com/story/news/2021/01/21/combatting-covid-19-and-vaccine-hesitancy-camden-black-coronavirus-camcare-project-hope/4233992001/

No phone hotlines, multiple websites, long lines: Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is confusing in Pa. and N.J.

Covid frontline: the harrowing work of fighting for lives at a London hospital - BBC News

•Jan 21, 2021 BBC News BBC News

JANUARY 21, 20212:47 PM UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

Exclusive: Pfizer-BioNTech agree to supply WHO co-led COVID-19 vaccine scheme - sources

By Kate Kelland, Ludwig Burger LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Pfizer and BioNTec

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-covax-pfizer-exclu-idUSKBN29Q2R9?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Vaccine distribution is a mess. Time to call in the National Guard. | Expert Opinion

by Efrat R. Kean and Patricia C. Henwood, For The Inquirer

COVID-19 meant mental health challenges in 2020. Here’s how to get help in 2021.

by Bethany Ao

Number of U.S. Hospitals and Beds Dwindled Before ‘Catastrophic’ Pandemic

America’s Salad Bowl Becomes Fertile Ground for Covid-19

Arizona’s Yuma County, at the juncture of Mexico and California, has had the most cases per capita of any metro area over the course of the pandemic.

#ABCNews #COVID19 #COVIDVaccine

COVID-19 vaccine supplies dwindle as Biden takes control l GMA

Jan 21, 2021 ABC News ABC News

Biden says death toll from pandemic probably will top 500,000 next month, says it will take months ‘for us to turn things around’

By Amy Goldstein, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Laura Meckler

Biden Pledges ‘Full-Scale Wartime Effort’ Against Pandemic

The New York Times

Harrowing Scenes in U.K. Hospitals Hold Sobering Lesson for U.S.

Health workers, facing a new virus variant, say the government’s failure to anticipate a winter surge has left them resorting to desperate measures.

South African Coronavirus Death Toll Breaches 40,000 Mark

MELBOURNE

How Worrying Are Mutated Coronavirus Variants?

Jan 21, 2021
Bloomberg Quicktake: Now Bloomberg Quicktake: Now

All overweight D.C. residents will get priority for coronavirus vaccine. Experts are skeptical.

More than half of the adults in the city will qualify for vaccine priority, setting up a logistical challenge.By Julie Zauzmer

Chronic conditions included in the D.C. coronavirus vaccination plan

Can President Biden really boost vaccine production? Here’s what to know about the U.S. supply.

Biden Unveils Virus Plan But Says 100,000 May Die in Next Month

Covid Cases Are Falling in 46 States, Easing Load on Hospitals
Biden Unveils Covid Plan, Ohio Invests in Tests: Virus Update

Italy Blames Pfizer Delays With Vaccinations Slowing to a Crawl

Biden Inherits a Vaccine Supply Unlikely to Grow Before April

But with 200 million doses pledged for the coming months, some experts say President Biden’s plan for 100 million shots in 100 days is far too modest.

#Coronavirus #China #Gravitas

Gravitas: China latest outbreak spreads to Beijing

Jan 21, 2021
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Hong Kong to lock down 150 residential buildings in a first for city’s Covid-19 battle

The drastic new measure, a first in the city, targets virus-hit Yau Tsim Mong district, an area filled with older buildings containing subdivided flats.

Explainer | What lockdown means for thousands in Hong Kong, who it affects

Residents living in most densely populated part of Hong Kong expected to be placed under stay-at-home order from midnight on Friday.

A year after Wuhan coronavirus lockdown, trauma runs deep in China’s ‘Hero City’

Relatives who lost loved ones early in the pandemic say they cannot move on without answers from authorities who failed to warn the public in a timely way.By Lily Kuo

GACVS COVID-19 Vaccine Safety subcommittee meeting to review reports of deaths of very frail elderly individuals vaccinated with Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, BNT162b2

22 January 2021 Statement Reading time: 1 min (293 words)

https://www.who.int/news/item/22-01-2021-gacvs-review-deaths-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-bnt162b2?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

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UK Covid death rate worst in Europe with fears of worse to come - BBC News

•Jan 20, 2021 BBC News BBC News

U.K. Suffers Deadliest Day, Some Hospitals ‘Like a War Zone’

Emily Ashton and Charles Capel 1/21/21, 12:00 AM EST

Eli Lilly Antibody Cuts Covid-19 Risk Up to 80% in Nursing Home Study

Riley Griffin 1/21/21, 8:00 AM EST

Lilly's neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) prevented COVID-19 at nursing homes in the BLAZE-2 trial, reducing risk by up to 80 percent for residents

January 21, 2021

XBiotech Candidate True Human™ COVID-19 Therapy Found to Target Highly Infectious Emerging Strain

Jan 21, 2021

https://investors.xbiotech.com/news-releases/news-release-details/xbiotech-candidate-true-humantm-covid-19-therapy-found-target

If They Nail Vaccinations, Drugstores Will Be the Heroes of 2021

Robert Langreth and Angelica LaVito 1/21/21, 6:00 AM EST

China Barricades Part of Capital as Outbreak Escalates

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-20/china-barricades-part-of-capital-as-northern-outbreak-escalates?srnd=premium

Hong Kong Set to Grant Approval of Pfizer Shot, SCMP Reports

Vaccine Shortage Puts Americans on the Road in Search of Shots

NYC Reschedules 23,000 Vaccine Appointments Due to Shortage

Henry Goldman 1/20/21, 3:25 PM EST

15 million people given Covid-19 vaccines in China as Spring Festival nears

Transport ministry forecasts 40 per cent drop in holiday traffic as public urged to stay home for Lunar New Year.

21 Jan 2021 - 11:24AM

Coronavirus: is China ready for the mRNA vaccine revolution?

The focus at home has been on the well-established path of inactivated formulas to fight Covid-19
But some companies are heeding the call to investigate the potential of a whole new kind of technology

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 12:00pm, 21 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3118535/coronavirus-china-ready-mrna-vaccine-revolution

Germany Posts Highest Daily Death Toll as Infection Gauge Eases

Mariajose Vera 1/20/21, 1:24 AM EST

Thousands of Vaccine Appointments Canceled as Supply Lags

The demand for vaccines is outpacing supply, and providers are struggling to predict how many doses will actually arrive. Here’s the latest on Covid-19.

Here’s what you can do to avoid the new coronavirus variant right now.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/well/live/covid-b117-variant-advice.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Biden expected to have U.S. work with World Health Organization again, join global vaccine effort

By Emily Rauhala

Spring term delays: New wave of virus uncertainty slams higher education

By Nick Anderson

UAE Approves Russia’s Sputnik Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use

Hospital chaplains offer comfort to coronavirus patients as US cases surge

Jan 19, 2021 South China Morning Post South China Morning Post

Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Are a Ticket to Nowhere

Gloomy visions of an inoculated elite lording it over everyone else won’t get needles in arms any faster.

By Lionel Laurent January 20, 2021, 1:00 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-20/covid-vaccine-passports-are-a-ticket-to-nowhere?srnd=premium

United States & Canada

Coronavirus: WHO says UK strain in over 60 countries as US death toll passes 400,000

New Covid-19 variants causing deep concern as world grapples with how to slow infections
The United States remains home to the world’s worst outbreak in overall numbers

Agence France-Presse Published: 4:59pm, 20 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3118507/coronavirus-who-says-uk-strain-over-60-countries-us

HEALTH COVID-19 VACCINE

Chinese state media attacks BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine, even as China prepares to roll it out

BY GRADY MCGREGOR January 20, 2021 4:07 AM EST

https://fortune.com/2021/01/20/china-covid-vaccine-pfizer-biontech-norway/

Prognosis

New Strains Stokes Vaccine Fears; Germany’s Deaths: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsJanuary 19, 2021, 5:53 PM EST Updated on January 20, 2021, 5:50 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-19/u-s-deaths-top-400-000-germany-s-border-warning-virus-update?srnd=premium

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine found to be effective against Covid variant discovered in the UK

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 20 20215:30 AM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 20 20216:43 AM EST KEY POINTS

The variant, known as B.1.1.7., has an unusually high number of mutations and is associated with more efficient and rapid transmission.
It had led to concerns about the effectiveness of Covid vaccines against it.
Authors of the study warned the rapid spread of Covid variants worldwide required “continuous monitoring of the significance of changes for maintained protection by currently authorized vaccines.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/20/covid-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-likely-to-be-effective-against-uk-variant.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is effective against the U.K. variant

Jan. 20, 2021 7:18 AM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Dulan Lokuwithana, SA News Editor2 Comments

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) appears to be effective against the highly transmissible strain of the coronavirus strain first found in the U.K. CNBC reports quoting a study conducted by the two companies.

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3652586-pfizerbiontech-covid-19-vaccine-is-effective-against-the-uk-variant

More contagious COVID-19 variants bring new uncertainties to California

Vaccines, aggressive strains and fatigue: California hits 3 million COVID cases and a crossroads.

Chart of the Day: Foreign Direct Investment in China Hits Record

Utilized FDI, excluding investments in banking, insurance and securities, rose 4.5% last year to $144.4 billion

Jan 20, 2021 06:20 PM DAILY CHART By Tang Ziyi

China is attracting a flood of foreign direct investment (FDI) as the world’s second-largest economy continues its comeback from the fallout of its Covid-19 epidemic.

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01-20/chart-of-the-day-foreign-direct-investment-in-china-hits-record-101653294.html

The pandemic crashed the party for caterers, who are struggling even more than restaurants to pivot

FAA approves virus screenings at airports

The program will launch at Cedar Rapids airport in Iowa. By Ian Duncan

L.A. County seniors can sign up for vaccine this week, but waits will be long due to shortages

UK announces record Covid deaths as hospitals “overwhelmed” - BBC News

•Jan 19, 2021 BBC News BBC News

California hits 3 million coronavirus cases; roughly 1 out of 13 in state have been infected

New California Variant May Be Driving Virus Surge There, Study Suggests

There’s no evidence that CAL.20C is more lethal, and scientists have to conduct more research to determine whether it is more contagious.

HEALTH

A Troubling New Pattern Among the Coronavirus Variants

The most concerning versions of the virus are not simply mutating—they’re mutating in similar ways.

SARAH ZHANG JANUARY 18, 2021

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/01/coronavirus-evolving-same-mutations-around-world/617721/

QuickTake

What to Know About Vaccine-Linked Deaths, Allergies

By John Lauerman and Jason Gale January 18, 2021, 4:33 AM EST Updated on January 18, 2021, 8:22 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/what-to-know-about-vaccine-related-deaths-allergies-quicktake

Prognosis

U.S. Hits 400,000 Covid Deaths as Biden Pledges to Boost Fight

U.S. Deaths Top 400,000; Merkel Strikes Curb Deal: Virus Update

Scotland Extends Virus Lockdown Until at Least Mid-February

Rodney Jefferson 1/19/21, 9:52 AM EST

Pennsylvanians with high-risk conditions and those 65 and older can get vaccine; dose availability in Philly likely to remain low through February

by Rob Tornoe, Erin McCarthy, Laura McCrystal, Allison Steele and Robert Moran

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll above 400,000 and vaccinations continue to stall.

NYC to Begin Closing Vaccine Sites Thursday Without Resupply

Henry Goldman 1/19/21, 11:47 AM EST

Testing, testing, and more testing on college campuses this spring as coronavirus concerns remain

by Susan Snyder The efforts come as coronavirus cases and deaths mount and the threat of a more contagious variant looms.

Florida police were after a covid-19 data scientist. After turning herself in, she said she tested positive while in custody.

By Teo Armus

Iranians demand a COVID-19 vaccine, not politics, from their leaders

Iran’s top leader has banned Western-made COVID-19 vaccines but is facing mounting fury from a populace devastated by the coronavirus.

Yes, people with coronavirus vaccinations should still distance from each other. Here’s why.

Experts have repeatedly emphasized that getting vaccinated doesn’t mean an immediate return to pre-pandemic life.By Allyson Chiu

Fauci praises WHO leadership in coronavirus pandemic, signaling break from Trump era

By Paul Schemm

Newsom promised 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations in 10 days. The state can’t say if he met his goal

Coding errors and data lags have hampered the state’s efforts to accurately count and publicly report how many doses are administered each day.

Vaccinating Californians 65 and older may last till June, pushing back timetable for others

COVID-19 patients struggle to get highly touted yet elusive antibody treatments

Where can I get a COVID-19 vaccine in the Philly area? Use our lookup tool.

by Grace Dickinson and Frank Kummer

I hung out, socially distanced and masked, with someone who later tested positive. Have I been exposed?

by Grace Dickinson

Vaccine Disparities Raise Alarm as Covid Variants Multiply

•Jan 19, 2021 Bloomberg Quicktake: Now Bloomberg Quicktake: Now

Pandemic Teacher Shortages Imperil In-Person Schooling

The nation’s schools need thousands of additional teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during outbreaks.

Biden Moves to Take Charge as U.S. Virus Deaths Near 400,000

President-elect Joe Biden will attend a virus memorial event on the eve of his inauguration. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

Most Americans say pandemic is out of control, despite Trump’s assertions, Post-ABC poll finds

The survey also showed that more than 6 in 10 Americans say they would probably get the vaccine.

By Amy Goldstein and Emily Guskin

New York explores buying COVID-19 vaccine directly from Pfizer

Jan. 19, 2021 2:07 AM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Mamta Mayani, SA News Editor10 Comments

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Monday considers the idea of buying COVID-19 shots directly from one of the vaccine makers, Pfizer (NYSE:PFE).

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3652097-new-york-explores-buying-covidminus-19-vaccine-directly-from-pfizer

Science

As Chinese cities face new Covid-19 lockdowns, have lessons of 2020 been learned?

Echoes in Hebei of measures a year ago in Wuhan, with students stranded in icy conditions and some people unable to get routine medical treatment
Residents complain of mistakes being repeated, as countries continue to struggle to balance a speedy response with the public’s wider needs

Linda Lew Published: 3:11pm, 19 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3118313/chinese-cities-face-new-covid-19-lockdowns-have-lessons-2020

China Slams U.S. Covid Lab Claims as ‘Conspiracy Theories’

Bloomberg News 1/18/21, 4:22 AM EST

UAE Administers Two Million Vaccines as Inoculation Gathers Pace

Science

Coronavirus in Chinese ice cream raises new alarm over infection via food

Products made in Tianjin contained traces that investigation found may have come from Ukrainian milk powder
It poses different questions to those around food that would be cooked before consumption, with research scarce on infection through what we eat

Linda Lew Published: 1:48pm, 19 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3118292/coronavirus-chinese-ice-creams-raises-new-alarm-over-infection

Another coronavirus variant linked to several large California outbreaks

By Fenit Nirappil

Gallery: Quarantine Center Under Construction in Covid-Hit City Jan. 15, 2021

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01-15/gallery-quarantine-center-under-construction-in-covid-hit-city-101651122.html

#ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia #coronavirus

Global death toll from COVID-19 tops 2 million amid vaccine rollout | ABC News

•Jan 16, 2021 ABC News (Australia) ABC News (Australia)

One Year, 400,000 Coronavirus Deaths: How the U.S. Guaranteed Its Own Failure

After the White House declined to pursue a unified national strategy, governors faced off against lobbyists, health experts and a restless public consumed by misinformation.

By Sarah Mervosh, Mike Baker, Patricia Mazzei and Mark Walker Jan. 17, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/us/covid-deaths-2020.html

400,000: The invisible deaths of covid-19

It took 12 weeks for the death toll to rise from 200,000 to 300,000. The death toll has leaped from 300,000 to almost 400,000 in less than five weeks.By Marc Fisher, Lori Rozsa, Mark Kreidler and Annie Gowen

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2021/national/400000-deaths-coronavirus-us/?itid=hp-more-top-stories

United States & Canada

Donald Trump’s coronavirus legacy: 400,000 dead on his watch

Experts blame Trump administration for a preventable loss of life
Biden official warns ‘virus is going to get worse before it gets better’

Tribune News Service Published: 3:22pm, 18 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3118168/donald-trumps-coronavirus-legacy-400000-dead-his

Prognosis

Norway Finds No Direct Link Between Elderly Deaths and Vaccine

What to Know About Vaccine-Related Deaths, Allergies
U.S. Vaccination Rollout Turns to Chaos
Vaccine Disparities Raise Alarm as Covid Variants Multiply

Another coronavirus variant linked to several large outbreaks in California

Health officials stressed that they haven’t determined if the variant might be more contagious or resistant to vaccines.

By Fenit Nirappil

WHO chief warns of ‘catastrophic moral failure’ as rich countries dominate vaccine supplies

By Paul Schemm and Jennifer Hassan

Covid map: Coronavirus cases, deaths, vaccinations by country

By The Visual and Data Journalism Team
BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105

#CNBC

Will Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Work?

•Jan 17, 2021 CNBC CNBC

Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew

Covid-19: France begins 6pm curfew

The French government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 6pm - 6am to fight the surge in cases of coronavirus.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-55691213

Companies Race to Develop Drugs That Stay Ahead of Coronavirus Mutations

Covid-19 medicines currently on the market are cumbersome to use, and doctors worry that virus variants could make them less effective

By Joseph Walker Jan. 17, 2021 9:00 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/companies-race-to-develop-drugs-that-stay-ahead-of-coronavirus-mutations-11610892001?mod=lead_feature_below_a_pos1&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Covid: Brazil approves and rolls out AstraZeneca and Sinovac vaccines

Published3 1/18/2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55699535

Prognosis

U.K. Doesn’t Rule Out Quarantine Hotels, GPS to Fight Virus

By Emily Ashton January 17, 2021, 4:24 AM EST Updated on January 17, 2021, 11:35 AM EST

Raab says government will ‘consider all possibilities’
Plan set out to vaccinate all U.K. adults by September
More Than 39.7 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-17/u-k-considering-all-measures-at-border-to-curb-virus-raab-says?srnd=premium

400,000: The invisible deaths of covid-19

It took 12 weeks for the death toll to rise from 200,000 to 300,000. The death toll has leaped from 300,000 to almost 400,000 in less than five weeks.

By Marc Fisher, Lori Rozsa, Mark Kreidler and Annie Gowen

CORONAVIRUS: ESSENTIAL NEWS

Here’s how to get more information on COVID vaccines in your county

By Caroline Hurley

COVID-19 vaccine rules spark confusion for some in Philly. Others are jumping the line.

by Marie McCullough With limited vaccine supplies and soaring numbers of deaths, is it better to give the shots to priority groups, or just get them into any available arms?

#BBC #BBCiPlayer #BBCNews

Covid-19: 10 new mass vaccination centres to open in England- BBC

•Jan 17, 2021 BBC BBC

A lab in Italy reported a cluster of the U.K. coronavirus variant. But that wasn’t enough to stop the spread.

The variant is not thought to be more deadly but has spread so widely it has caused the death toll to spike as well. By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli

Inside a Nursing Home as Vaccine Arrives: ‘I Hope Everybody Takes It’

At a Staten Island facility that was hit hard by the coronavirus, residents and staff members lined up to get inoculated. Here’s how the day went.

Britons lament ‘U.K. variant’ label, as coronavirus strain spreads around the world

As the virus began spreading a year ago, there was pushback against maligning China with the labels like “China virus” or “Wuhan virus.” The World Health Organization says it’s working on a more neutral naming system.By Karla Adam and William Booth

Los Angeles Covid Cases Top 1 Million as Outbreak Worsens

By Linus Chua January 16, 2021, 5:22 PM EST Updated on January 17, 2021, 3:28 AM EST

L.A. milestone means one in 10 people have tested positive
County scientists estimate one in three have been infected

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/los-angeles-covid-cases-surpass-1-million-as-outbreak-worsens?srnd=coronavirus

Norway Raises Concern Over Vaccine Jabs for the Elderly

Lars Erik Taraldsen 1/16/21, 6:45 PM EST

World Braces for Surge of Coronavirus Variants

Last Updated Jan. 17, 2021, 2:18 a.m. ETJan. 17, 2021Jan. 17, 2021

India, which has the world’s third-highest virus death toll, has begun vaccinating its population of 1.3 billion. Vaccinations in U.S. nursing homes are going more slowly than expected. This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of the coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/16/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Austria Extends Lockdown, U.K. Mulls Quarantine: Virus Update

WHO warns on 'catastrophic moral failure' of vaccine distribution
JANUARY 18, 20215:09 AM UPDATED

Vaccine nationalism puts world on brink of 'catastrophic moral failure': WHO chief By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/vaccine-nationalism-puts-world-on-brink-of-catastrophic-moral-failure-who-chief-idUSKBN29N0TB?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Israel trades Pfizer doses for medical data in vaccine blitz

Mon January 18, 2021 1:07 AM| Associated Press|About: AZN, BNTX, MRNA, PFE Associated Press, The JERUSALEM (AP) —

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18154730-israel-trades-pfizer-doses-for-medical-data-in-vaccine-blitz

Worldwide coronavirus death toll nears 2 million

•Jan 15, 2021 South China Morning Post South China Morning Post

Diplomacy

Covid-19: US says it has new evidence coronavirus may have come from a Chinese laboratory

Virus ‘could have emerged naturally … [but] a laboratory accident could resemble a natural outbreak if the initial exposure included only a few individuals’, US Department of State says
But brief, unsigned statement provides no data to back up its claims

Bloomberg Published: 12:11pm, 16 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3118000/covid-19-us-says-it-has-new-evidence-coronavirus-may-have-come

State Department Steps Up Claims Covid-19 May Have Escaped From Chinese Lab

Politics

U.S. Steps Up Claims Covid-19 May Have Escaped From Chinese Lab

By Bill Faries January 15, 2021, 8:50 PM EST

State Department offers no data to back latest assertions
China has limited or delayed efforts to study virus’s origin

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/u-s-steps-up-claims-covid-19-may-have-escaped-from-chinese-lab?srnd=premium

Prognosis

Brazil Scientists See Signs of New Virus Mutations Amid Outbreak

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/brazil-scientists-see-signs-of-new-virus-mutations-amid-outbreak?srnd=premium

Politics

Confusion Over Second-Dose Reserve Further Disrupts Vaccine Push

By Angelica LaVito and Josh Wingrove January 15, 2021, 6:38 PM EST

U.S. said it was releasing more shots after rollout faltered
States lash out after big bump in allocations fails to emerge

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/confusion-over-second-dose-reserve-further-disrupts-vaccine-push

C.D.C. Warns the New Virus Variant Could Fuel Huge Spikes in Covid-19 Cases

The more contagious version, first identified in Britain, is expected to spread widely and lead to further strains on an already overburdened health care system.

By Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin Published Jan. 15, 2021Updated Jan. 16, 2021, 4:49 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/health/covid-cdc-variant.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=Health

U.S. Officials Plead for More Use of Languishing Antibody Drugs

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/u-s-officials-plead-for-more-use-of-languishing-antibody-drugs?srnd=premium

CDC says highly transmissible coronavirus variant could become dominant U.S. strain by March

By Joel Achenbach

India launches one of the world’s largest vaccination campaigns

India is rolling out two locally made vaccines, but only one has completed a Phase 3 trial. The aim is to immunize 300 million people by this summer. By Joanna Slater and Niha Masih

India Starts Vaccinating Its 1.3 Billion People

The campaign is unfolding in a country that has reported more than 10 million coronavirus infections. Here’s the latest pandemic news.

China / Science

Explainer | Coronavirus: what’s life like for the 20 million Chinese back in lockdown?

Hebei and Heilongjiang provinces worst affected as authorities work to keep case numbers under control
More than 1,000 people are being treated in hospital, reports say

Jane Cai in Beijing Published: 7:00am, 16 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3117958/coronavirus-whats-life-20-million-chinese-back-lockdown

‘Vaccine Tourism’ Stirs Anger As Coronavirus Cases Surge | TODAY

Jan 15, 2021 TODAY TODAY

Prognosis

Fast-Spreading Covid Variant Seen Becoming Top U.S. Strain

By Emma Court January 15, 2021, 1:40 PM EST Updated on January 15, 2021, 2:34 PM EST

About 76 cases of B117 lineage confirmed in U.S., report says
Strain’s spread threatens health systems, vaccine push

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/fast-spreading-covid-variant-seen-becoming-top-u-s-strain?srnd=premium

In New Jersey, smokers can now get the coronavirus vaccine before teachers or public transit workers

By Andrea Salcedo

CDC says highly transmissible coronavirus variant could become dominant U.S. strain by March

The rapid spread of the variant first detected in the United Kingdom heightens the urgency of getting people vaccinated, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. By Joel Achenbach

China / Science

Coronavirus: global death toll could hit 5 million by March, Chinese researchers say

‘The development of the pandemic is hard to foresee, but a numerical estimate by modelling can provide some useful information,’ lead scientist says
In worst case, the number of Covid-19 infections in the United States could rise to 32 million, study says

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 5:00am, 15 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3117784/coronavirus-death-toll-could-hit-5-million-march-chinese

Global Deaths Top 2 Million; NYC Doses to Run Out: Virus NYC to Run Out of Vaccines Next Week Without Major Resupply
As NYC Staggers On, Cost to Lives and Livelihoods Keeps Rising

Prognosis

World Hits 2 Million Covid-19 Deaths With Cases Still Surging

By Michelle Fay Cortez January 14, 2021, 7:02 PM EST Updated on January 15, 2021, 12:58 PM EST

Slow vaccine rollout may mean number won’t drop any time soon
Virus killed more people than malaria, tuberculosis combined
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-15/world-edges-close-to-2-million-covid-19-deaths-led-by-u-s?srnd=premium

Death toll approaches 400,000, far exceeding Trump’s benchmark for success in containing the virus

If deaths remained below 200,000, he said in March of last year, it would show his administration had “done a very good job. ”By Derek Hawkins

Prognosis

U.S. Vaccine Shift Stirs New Unease as 128 Million Join Line

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/u-s-vaccine-shift-stirs-fresh-unease-as-128-million-join-line

World

Norway Warns of Vaccination Risks for Sick Patients Over 80

Hospitals in England Struggle in the Grip of the Virus

By Josh Holder and Marc Santora Jan. 15, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/15/world/europe/england-covid-hospitals.html

Science

China National Biotec Group says Covid-19 vaccine will offer protection for at least six months

Company chairman tells state news agency it is waiting to see if the drug will prove effective over the longer term
Two of CNBG’s vaccines were authorised for emergency use last year, although final trial results are still pending

Ji Siqi Published: 8:23pm, 15 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3117951/china-national-biotec-group-says-covid-19-vaccine-will-offer

Canada secured more vaccine doses per capita than anyone else but has been slow to administer them

By Amanda Coletta

#Hospitals #Vaccine #TodayShow

Hospitals Struggle Amid Growing Frustration Over Vaccine Rollout | TODAY

•Jan 14, 2021
TODAY TODAY

The world will have to live with COVID forever - Moderna CEO

Jan. 14, 2021 4:38 AM ET Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor220 Comments

Echoing comments from some other public health officials, Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) CEO Stephane Bancel said COVID-19 is likely to become an endemic disease, meaning it'll always be present in the population, but circulating at lower rates. "SARS-CoV-2 is not going away," he told a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference. "We are going to live with this virus, we think, forever."

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3651349-world-will-to-live-covid-forever-moderna-ceo

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Moderna CEO says the world will have to live with Covid ‘forever’

PUBLISHED WED, JAN 13 20213:07 PM ESTUPDATED WED, JAN 13 20215:00 PM EST Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

KEY POINTS

Stephane Bancel, CEO of Covid-19 vaccine maker Moderna, warned Wednesday that the virus will be around “forever.”
Public health officials and infectious disease experts have said there is a high likelihood that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease, meaning it will be present at all times, though likely at lower levels than it is now.
“SARS-CoV-2 is not going away,” Bancel said during a panel discussion at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/13/moderna-ceo-says-the-world-will-have-to-live-with-the-coronavirus-forever.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Prognosis

Can’t Get a Covid Vaccine? You Are Not Alone

Local health officials are unprepared for the vaccine strategy shift.

The Maddening Red Tape Facing Older People Who Want the Vaccine

A million New York City residents who are over 65 are now eligible to be vaccinated. But try making an appointment.

D.C., Md. & Va.

D.C. area boosts vaccine efforts as demand exceeds supply

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said that the need is “far outpacing” vaccine availability. By Julie Zauzmer, Rachel Chason, Lola Fadulu and Erin Cox

Prognosis

Germany’s ICUs Fill Up; China Bars WHO Delegates: Virus Update

Bloomberg News January 13, 2021, 6:02 PM EST Updated on January 14, 2021, 9:47 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/australia-backs-astrazeneca-hope-for-j-j-vaccine-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Prognosis

Covid-19 Outbreaks Aren’t Driven by In-Person Classes, CDC Says

By Michelle Fay Cortez January 13, 2021, 1:11 PM EST

Schools should be last to close, first to reopen, study finds
Those 18-24 may have contributed more to community spread

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/covid-19-outbreaks-aren-t-driven-by-in-person-classes-cdc-says?srnd=coronavirus

U.S. Supply Chains Disrupted by Millions Calling Out Sick

Some manufacturers are reporting absenteeism rates as high as 25%.By Olivia Rockeman January 14, 2021, 6:00 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/covid-pandemic-economy-recovery-disrupted-by-millions-calling-out-sick?srnd=coronavirus

Johnson & Johnson Expects Vaccine Results Soon but Lags in Production

The U.S. needs J.&J.’s one-shot vaccine more than ever. But the company is behind on manufacturing promises made in its Operation Warp Speed contract.

More contagious coronavirus strain detected in L.A. County as total cases top 1 million

The variant, B.1.1.7, had previously been found in San Diego and San Bernardino counties, as well as 14 other U.S. states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Limited supply of COVID-19 vaccine likely to slow rocky rollout for California seniors

WHO health experts arrive in Covid-19 epicentre Wuhan to investigate origins of coronavirus

•Jan 14, 2021
South China Morning Post South China Morning Post

Diplomacy

Stumble start on way to China for WHO coronavirus origins team

Most of the international experts arrive in Wuhan but two remain in Singapore after testing positive for Covid-19 antibodies
Further checks required to determine whether cause is an active infection

Simone McCarthy and Holly Chik Published: 11:00am, 14 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3117619/covid-19-who-teams-investigation-hinges-full-access ay Travel Peak

Amid outbreaks in two northern provinces, officials are urging people to avoid nonessential travel in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus

WHO Team Arrives in Wuhan, but Two Stay Behind After Testing Positive

Team of 13 scientists will examine the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic

Jan 14, 2021 06:35 PM

W.H.O. Team Arrives in China to Study Pandemic’s Source

New Covid Cases in China Hit 10-Month High Ahead of Holiday

Prognosis

Brazil Sends Plane After India Agrees to Expedite Vaccine Supply

By P R Sanjai and Marisa Wanzeller January 14, 2021, 7:12 AM EST

India’s Serum Institute will supply 2 million doses to Brazil
India, Brazil said to not yet have reached pricing agreement

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/brazil-sends-plane-after-india-agrees-to-expedite-vaccine-supply?srnd=coronavirus

China reports first Covid-19 death in months, evacuates thousands in Hebei

People moved to quarantine centre from high-risk parts of provincial capital Shijiazhuang, as CDC chief backs ‘whack-a-mole’ lockdowns to contain the outbreak.

Evacuation ordered amid fears of vertical Covid-19 transmission in Hong Kong building

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung inspects sewage system design of Yan Shek House at Shek Yam Estate, where six residents have been infected.

U.S. deaths are 400,000 higher than normal since the pandemic hit. Here’s the breakdown by state.

As California Eases Vaccine Rules, Many Complain of Chaos

A day after the state’s expansion of eligibility for the vaccine, residents are trying to navigate the confusing process. Here’s the latest on Covid-19.

Prognosis

N.Y. Leads Region’s Covid Hospitalizations as Neighbors See Drop

By Jonathan LevinJanuary 14, 2021, 1:00 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-14/n-y-leads-region-s-covid-hospitalizations-as-neighbors-see-drop?srnd=coronavirus

Covid Hospitalization Rate For Children Up 800 Percent In Six Months | NBC News NOW

•Jan 13, 2021
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January 12, 2021 at 5:45 PM EST Back

REGENERON ANNOUNCES U.S. GOVERNMENT AGREEMENT TO PURCHASE ADDITIONAL COVID-19 ANTIBODY COCKTAIL DOSES

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Jan. 12, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --

New agreement covers 1.25 million additional doses of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail, bringing total potential U.S. supply to over 1.5 million doses

Doses are being supplied for use pursuant to the FDA Emergency Use Authorization for high-risk patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 in order to reduce the risk of progression to severe COVID-19 and/or hospitalization

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) will purchase additional supply of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail for use in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients to meet the federal government's Operation Warp Speed goals. The government has said it will provide these doses at no cost to patients, though healthcare facilities may charge fees related to administration.

https://newsroom.regeneron.com/index.php/news-releases/news-release-details/regeneron-announces-us-government-agreement-purchase-additional

PrognosisU.S. Vaccine Shift Stirs Fresh Unease as 128 Million Join Line

California and Texas Fought Covid Their Own Way, Suffered Just the Same
N.J. to Open Vaccine Eligibility to 65 and Over, Murphy Says
Germany Curbs Entry; More Nations See U.K. Variant: Virus Update

Philippines to obtain additional 20M doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 jab

Jan. 13, 2021 6:42 AM ET AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) By: Mamta Mayani, SA News Editor1 Comment

The Philippines will sign a deal with AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) on Thursday for up to 20M additional doses of its COVID-19 vaccines, source Bloomberg.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-13/philippines-to-get-20-million-additional-doses-from-astrazeneca?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Distracted by Political Crisis, U.S. Sets Record for Virus Deaths

More than 4,400 people died on Tuesday, a day before President Trump was expected to be charged with inciting violence. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

Disappointing Chinese Vaccine Results Pose Setback for Developing World

Brazil said CoronaVac had an efficacy rate just over 50 percent, much lower than previously announced. More than 380 million doses had been ordered.

The Future of the Coronavirus? An Annoying Childhood Infection

Once immunity is widespread in adults, the virus rampaging across the world will come to resemble the common cold, scientists predict

China’s Sinovac says Covid-19 vaccine has high efficacy after lower Brazil figure

Brazilian partner earlier said CoronaVac was 50 per cent effective, but Sinovac moves to clarify the data
Company will double production capacity in February to meet overseas and domestic demand, chairman says

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing and Josephine Ma Published: 5:37pm, 13 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3117588/chinas-sinovac-says-covid-19-vaccine-has-high-efficacy-after-lower

Sinovac: Brazil results show Chinese vaccine 50.4% effective

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-55642648

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SCMP Explains: What's the difference between the major Covid-19 vaccines?

Jan 8, 2021
South China Morning Post South China Morning Post

66% of New York City’s Vaccine Doses Sit Unused as Virus Numbers Soar

Small numbers of doses have even been thrown out as the city’s mass inoculation campaign gets off to a dispiriting start.

By Joseph Goldstein Jan. 8, 2021Updated 4:27 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-vaccine-delays.html

UK approves anti-inflammatory drugs to treat sickest covid-19 patients after strong results in clinical trial

By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Ben Guarino

Biden to release all coronavirus vaccine doses, not holding any back for second shots

by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar and Zeke Miller, Associated Press

Biden Plans to Release Nearly All Vaccine Doses to States

Jan 08, 2021 07:29 PM SOCIETY & CULTURE

Three Things to Know About North China’s Locally Transmitted Covid Outbreak

By Cora Zhu

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01-08/three-things-to-know-about-north-chinas-locally-transmitted-covid-outbreak-101648364.html

Are we at the beginning of the end of COVID-19? The tricky road to herd immunity, explained.

by Tom Avril

Effective COVID-19 drug treatments remain frustratingly elusive a year into the pandemic

by Marie McCullough

China / Science

Coronavirus: Chinese province of Guangdong extends quarantine and urges people not to travel over Lunar New Year

Those arriving from abroad will now have to spend a week at home after spending two weeks quarantined in designated hotels
Local authorities urge people not to travel over the holiday period and limit gatherings to 10 people or fewer

Guo Rui in Guangzhou Published: 10:37pm, 8 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3117013/coronavirus-chinese-province-guangdong-extends-quarantine-and

#Coronavirus #WION #Japan

Japan declares state of emergency for Tokyo area as COVID-19 cases surge | World News | WION News

Jan 8, 2021
WION WION

US registering highest deaths yet from the coronavirus

By CARLA K. JOHNSON and LISA MARIE PANE

https://apnews.com/article/us-news-pandemics-california-coronavirus-pandemic-5d120f6273dc8ec89e3f60df98b9f5f7

U.S. Sets New Death and Daily Case Records

There were at least 4,111 deaths and 280,028 new cases on Thursday. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that the high toll was likely to continue. Here’s the latest on the pandemic.

Pfizer vaccine 'works' against key variant mutation, study suggests

By James Gallagher
Health and science correspondent
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55587320

Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against mutation found in fast-spreading virus variants, study shows

By Carolyn Y. Johnson

South Africa coronavirus variant: What is the risk?

By Michelle Roberts
Health editor, BBC News online

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55534727

Coronavirus Lockdown Disrupts Logistics Across Northern China

Provinces neighboring hot spot Hebei erect highway checkpoints, bar travelers from entry

Jan 08, 2021 07:35 PM

Prognosis

More States Find Variant; N.Y. Cases Reach Record: Virus Update

United Kingdom Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency Authorizes Use of COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna

January 8, 2021 at 7:46 AM ESTPDF Version

UK MHRA authorization is based on a rolling review of COVID-19 Vaccine Moderna data, including data from the Phase 3 COVE study

UK government secured an additional 10 million doses for a total of 17 million doses of the vaccine with supply beginning in early 2021

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2021-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA)

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/united-kingdom-medicines-and-healthcare-products-regulatory

Politics

Beijing shuts religious venues as coronavirus spreads in Hebei Catholic heartland

Places of worship in the capital closed temporarily to prevent gatherings
Official Catholic bodies in neighboring Shijiazhuang deny widespread cases among members

Mimi Lau Published: 10:15pm, 8 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3117012/beijing-shuts-religious-venues-coronavirus-spreads-hebei

UK approves anti-inflammatory drugs to treat sickest covid-19 patients after strong results in clinical trial

By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Ben Guarino

Covid Deaths in U.S. to Sustain Near-Record Pace

•Jan 7, 2021

Bloomberg Markets and Finance

Analysis

The other crisis Trump is exacerbating

America is experiencing two threats, one acute and one, by now, chronic. The acute threat is the one President Trump poses to the stability of the government. The chronic threat is the pandemic, which is nearly everywhere. By Philip Bump

Prognosis

More States Find Variant; N.Y. Cases Reach Record: Virus Update

Follow the latest updates in the global pandemic and vaccination efforts.

China / Science

Coronavirus: how will the vaccine advances of 2020 alter the pandemic path in 2021?

The extreme lows brought by Covid-19 have sparked unprecedented speed in developing and approving vaccines and rolling them out
A number of factors beyond the shots themselves will determine if and how transmissions are curbed

Josephine Ma Published: 7:00am, 8 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3116547/coronavirus-how-will-vaccine-advances-2020-alter-pandemic-path

Post-infection coronavirus immunity usually robust after 8 months, study shows

About 90 percent of the patients studied showed lingering, stable immunity, researchers found. By Joel Achenbach

People without symptoms spread virus in more than half of cases, CDC model finds

The finding underscores the importance of following guidelines to wear masks and maintain social distancing. By Ben Guarino

CDC expects more-contagious variant to spread ‘rapidly’ in U.S.

North China City Locked Down Amid Virus Flare-Up

Capital of Hebei province bans people and vehicles from leaving city of 11 million after finding dozens of new Covid-19 cases

Lockdown Tightens in North China Province as Covid-19 Cases Surge

Sinovac’s Covid Shot Proves 78% Effective in Brazil Trial

Most definitive data so far may shore up confidence in vaccine’s effectiveness after previous findings sowed confusion and doubt

Jan 08, 2021 05:30 AM

Prognosis

Pfizer, BioNTech Shot May Defeat New Variants, Study Shows

By Naomi Kresge and Jason Gale January 8, 2021, 2:09 AM EST Updated on January 8, 2021, 10:17 AM EST

Study looked at mutation common to U.K., South Africa strains
The early data hasn’t yet been subjected to peer review

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/pfizer-shot-may-be-effective-against-key-mutation-study-shows

Prognosis

U.K. Clears Moderna’s Vaccine to Add Third Covid-19 Shot

By Alex Morales, James Paton, and Suzi Ring January 8, 2021, 6:06 AM EST Updated on January 8, 2021, 8:44 AM EST

Approval comes as pandemic surges anew across Britain
U.K. also adds 10 million more vaccine doses from Moderna

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/u-k-is-said-to-clear-moderna-vaccine-as-soon-as-friday

Japan's Suga Declares Virus Emergency for Tokyo Area

•Jan 7, 2021

Bloomberg Markets and Finance Bloomberg Markets and Finance

HEALTH

The Next Phase of Vaccination Will Be Even Harder

Getting vaccines to hospitals and nursing homes was supposed to be the easy part.

SARAH ZHANG
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/01/next-phase-vaccination-will-be-even-harder/617595/

Anthony Fauci Thinks U.K. COVID Variant More Widespread in U.S. Than Known

The new, more infectious variant has been detected in California, Florida, New York, and Georgia. Fauci told Newsweek he would be "very surprised" if it was not in "several more states."

HEALTH

The Most Reliable Pandemic Number Keeps Getting Worse

America reported a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the first week of 2021.

THE COVID TRACKING PROJECT

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/01/pandemic-cases-hospitalizations-record-south/617589/

First case of new coronavirus variant detected in Pa. as elementary schools urged to bring students back to the classroom; N.J. expands vaccine pool

by Erin McCarthy

When can I get the COVID-19 vaccine?

by Jason Laughlin and Justine McDaniel

Frustrated Camden County official lashes out at Trump administration over COVID-19 vaccine delays

by Frank Kummer, Posted: January 7, 2021- 12:59 PM

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-camden-county-20210107.html

Economics

U.S. Jobs Recovery Falters as Virus Surge Snaps Hiring Streak

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-08/u-s-jobs-recovery-faltered-in-december-amid-virus-surge?srnd=premium

OB-GYN weighs in on COVID-19 vaccines and pregnant women

•Jan 7, 2021
CBS News CBS News

QuickTake

What You Need to Know About Allergic Reactions to Covid Vaccines

UPDATED THU, JAN 7 20211:25 PM EST

Covid live updates: Texas confirms first case of new virus strain; U.S. hospitalizations top 132,000

CNBC.com staff

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/coronavirus-live-updates.html

Prognosis

U.S. Vaccine Rollout Hindered by Faulty Coordination, Messaging

The lack of guidance from Washington left hospitals on their own.

U.S. records its deadliest day of the pandemic while eyes fixed on mob storming Capitol

A record 3,915 people died of covid-19 in the United States on Wednesday. One lawmaker who was present as Congress convened announced hours later he had tested positive. By Paulina Firozi

Record Covid deaths in Germany and Russia

Germany is facing calls for a second lockdown before Christmas.

11 December 202011th December 2020 Europe

Coronavirus: How will the world vaccinate seven billion?

By Naomi Grimley Global affairs correspondent

Published13 August 2020 Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53741966

Science

Coronavirus: China’s Hebei province reports 120 new local cases as millions tested

All but one of the new infections were found in Shijiazhuang where the country’s biggest outbreak in months has city in lockdown
In addition there have been two cases reported in Hebei province which originated overseas

Echo Xie Published: 11:21am, 7 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3116735/coronavirus-chinas-hebei-province-reports-120-new-local-cases

#CNBC #CNBCTV

Vaccination doesn't mean people can return to pre-Covid life: Dr. Scott Gottlieb

•Jan 6, 2021
CNBC Television CNBC Television

Prognosis

U.S. Vaccine Rollout Hindered by Faulty Coordination, Messaging

A troubled start has put vaccinations well behind early goals

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

Story by Ed Yong DECEMBER 29, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-year-two/617528/

Prognosis

Tokyo Covid Emergency; China City Partly Shut Off: Virus Update

Bloomberg News January 6, 2021, 5:46 PM EST Updated on January 7, 2021, 4:17 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/moderna-gets-eu-approval-allergic-reactions-rare-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

U.S. Is Blind to Contagious New Virus Variant, Scientists Warn

It’s not too late to curb the contagious variant’s spread in the U.S., experts say — but only with a national program for genetic sequencing.

Covid-19: More U.S. Pharmacies to Start Vaccinating High-Risk Groups

Last Updated Jan. 7, 2021, 1:29 a.m. ET5 hours ago5 hours ago

The European Union approves the Moderna vaccine after criticism for being too slow. As the virus variant makes inroads in the U.S., there is no good system to track it, experts warn.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/world/covid-19-coronavirus

U.S. accelerates plan to distribute vaccine through pharmacies

U.S. health officials acknowledged the slow rate of vaccine distribution and said there would be “immediate action” taken for states to speed up getting shots into arms. By Antonia Noori Farzan, Erin Cunningham, Marisa Iati, Miriam Berger and Taylor Telford

Jan 06, 2021 07:29 PM SOCIETY & CULTURE

Beijing’s Neighboring Province Enters ‘Wartime Mode’ After Dozens of Covid Cases Found

By Cora Zhu

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2021-01-06/beijings-neighboring-province-enters-wartime-mode-after-dozens-of-covid-cases-found-101647395.html

#Frustration #CovidVaccine #NBCNews

Growing Frustration Over Pace Of Covid Vaccine Rollout | NBC Nightly News

•Jan 5, 2021
NBC News NBC News

CDC expects mutant variant of coronavirus to spread in U.S.

Although the variant has so far been detected in a very small fraction of infections, it shows signs of spreading and may become significantly more common in coming weeks, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and infectious-disease experts. By Joel Achenbach and Ben Guarino

Opinion Patricia Pan Connor

Cultural and digital strengths in Taiwan’s coronavirus response hold lessons for struggling US

Taiwan has assembled one of the world’s best pandemic responses through a robust digital health care system, swift control measures and a culture of compliance
In contrast, the US response has been plagued with chaotic government messaging, attacks on science, suspicion of authorities and a focus on individual freedoms

Patricia Pan Connor Published: 9:15am, 7 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3116588/cultural-and-digital-strengths-taiwans-coronavirus-response-hold

Economics

How Covid Laid Bare America’s Economic and Political Divides

Japan declares state of emergency in Tokyo, paying price for complacency on the virus

Leaders wanted Japan to co-exist with the virus and keep the economy open, but as cases surge, the limits of that approach are all too apparent. By Simon Denyer

Mutant variant of virus may spread rapidly through U.S., CDC says

By Joel Achenbach and Ben Guarino

When vaccines are about to expire, providers scramble to give them to whoever is available

By Lenny Bernstein and Lola Fadulu

People without symptoms spread virus in more than half of cases, CDC model finds

The finding underscores the importance of following guidelines to wear masks and maintain social distancing. By Ben Guarino

CDC expects more-contagious variant to spread ‘rapidly’ in U.S.

COVID-19 surge in California has triggered health care rationing

•Jan 6, 2021
CBS News CBS News

Covid-19, Overshadowed by Washington, Was Deadlier Than Ever in America

Deaths reported across the country on Wednesday set a new record. Five states have now reported their millionth case. Here’s the latest pandemic news.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/07/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Trying not to waste a single drop of vaccine

Shots of the two authorized coronavirus vaccines must be administered or discarded within six hours of reaching room temperature. When doses remain, the hunt begins for recipients. By Lenny Bernstein and Lola Fadulu

What to know about vaccine rollouts in D.C., Md. and Va.

By Julie Zauzmer

State of emergency in Tokyo; Malaysia sees record jump in virus cases

The month-long measure covers the capital and the prefectures of Kanagawa, Saitama and Chiba.

Mass vaccination programme using Sinovac is set to begin in Indonesia

Indonesian President Joko Widodo will be the first to get the jab when inoculations begin on January 13.

Allergic reactions to vaccine are rare and outweighed by the benefit of protection, CDC finds

Of nearly 2 million vaccinated, only 21 people had severe allergic reactions. They were treated and recovered. By William Wan and Joel Achenbach

Questions about the origins of the coronavirus in China

•Jan 4, 2021
CBS News CBS News

L.A. is running out of oxygen for patients as U.S. hospitalizations hit record highs

By Fenit Nirappil and William Wan

Prognosis

Japan Hits Case Milestone; German Crisis Meeting: Virus Update

Our vaccination need is more urgent than ever. You wouldn’t know it from state efforts.

Opinion by Megan McArdle

European Vaccine Rollouts Are Off to a Shaky Start Despite New Lockdowns

Programs in many countries have been hampered by slow-moving bureaucracies, a lack of nurses and shortages of vital equipment.

Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests

Researchers warn that the British variant is so contagious that new control measures, including closing down schools and universities, may be necessary.

#CNBC #CNBCTV

Former FDA chief Scott Gottlieb on the best strategies for Covid-19 vaccine rollout

•Jan 4, 2021
CNBC Television CNBC Television

Covid-19: ‘One of the worst shifts of my life – it’s overwhelming’

Reporter: Karl Mercer Camera: Richard Milliken Editing: Ed Knight and Dave Thomson

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-55540701

Prognosis

EU Seeks Up to 300 Million More Pfizer-BioNTech Doses

The bloc is pursuing a deal that could double its Pfizer shot supply.

Global Vaccination Efforts Roll Out Slower Than Promised

Countries are falling short of inoculation targets, even as new infections soar and record numbers flood hospitals. Here’s the latest pandemic news.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/05/world/covid-19-coronavirus

U.S. again shatters records after 2,800 new patients require hospitalization in a single day

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Erin Cunningham, Marisa Iati, Angela Fritz and
Miriam Berger Jan. 5, 2021 at 8:59 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/05/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

#ABCNews #ThisWeek #AnthonyFauci

'There is no running away from the numbers': Fauci on COVID-19 surge | ABC News

•Jan 3, 2021
ABC News ABC News

Are pandemics the new normal?

Are pandemics the new normal?Close

Though scientists had warned the world was due a pandemic, no-one could have predicted the scale and impact of Covid-19. So should we expect more pandemics in the future? The BBC’s Mattea Bubalo explains.

Video by Mattea Bubalo, Laura Foster and Kate Forbes

Graphics by Mel Lou and Terry Saunders

Published BBC News Subsection World

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-55415763

GLOBAL

Britain Failed. Again.

The country has gone into lockdown once more. The current set of restrictions has more troubling reasons than the last.

TOM MCTAGUE 1:00 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/01/boris-johnson-covid-pandemic-lockdown/617546/

Prognosis

FDA Objects to Dosage Changes; EU Seeks More Shots: Virus Update

Bloomberg News January 4, 2021, 5:52 PM EST Updated on January 5, 2021, 9:57 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-04/england-locks-down-variant-strain-is-in-new-york-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

U.S. tops 350,000 COVID deaths amid worsening pandemic

•Jan 4, 2021
CBS Evening News CBS Evening News

New Variant Detected in New York as Vaccinations Lag

The sluggish pace of vaccinations has been particularly striking in New York City, the onetime epicenter of the pandemic.

LIVE UPDATES UPDATED MON, JAN 4 20219:14 AM EST

Covid live updates: UK begins Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccinations; official more concerned of South Africa variant

CNBC.com staff

This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/04/covid-live-updates.html

U.S. Is Blind to Contagious New Virus Variant, Scientists Warn

It’s not too late to curb the contagious variant’s spread in the U.S., experts say — but only with a national program for genetic sequencing.

By Carl Zimmer Jan. 6, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/health/coronavirus-variant-tracking.html

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More than 350,000 Americans have died from COVID-19

•Jan 3, 2021
Good Morning America Good Morning America

What we know about the latest highly infectious coronavirus variant

December 29, 2020 | 9:07 PM EDT

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Coronavirus: US passes 20 million cases, as Mitt Romney calls for emergency medics to be drafted to administer vaccine

On Wednesday alone, more than 3,900 people died of Covid-19 in the US, a new daily record
Experts believe the worst is yet to come as health care workers brace for a surge in cases and deaths after holiday gatherings

Agence France-Presse and Reuters Published: 3:11am, 2 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3116163/united-states-passes-20-million-coronavirus-cases

Vaccinations still lagging as U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 20 million

•Jan 2, 2021
CBS Evening News CBS Evening News

Confusion and Shortages Impede Some U.S. Vaccination Campaigns

As distribution of Covid-19 vaccines begins to open up to wider segments of the population, there have been scenes of chaos across the country.
India has approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine and a local version. Here’s the latest pandemic news.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/03/world/covid19-coronavirus

#WorldNewsTonight #COVID #Holidays

Holidays spark fears of record COVID-19 surge

•Jan 2, 2021
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Southeast Asia

Coronavirus: Australian clusters grow from liquor store case; India approves two vaccines

New South Wales reported eight new cases and Victoria three as new measures to combat the disease kicked in
India’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorisation for the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Bharat Biotech jabs

Agencies Published: 3:52pm, 3 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3116241/coronavirus-australian-clusters-grow-liquor-store-case

New cases of highly infectious COVID strain discovered in U.S.

•Jan 1, 2021
CBS Evening News CBS Evening News

United States & Canada

Coronavirus: US passes 20 million cases, as Mitt Romney calls for emergency medics to be drafted to administer vaccine

On Wednesday alone, more than 3,900 people died of Covid-19 in the US, a new daily record
Experts believe the worst is yet to come as health care workers brace for a surge in cases and deaths after holiday gatherings

Agence France-Presse and Reuters Published: 3:11am, 2 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3116163/united-states-passes-20-million-coronavirus-cases

CA hits record 585 COVID-19 deaths in 1 day as infections rage out of control

•Jan 1, 2021
ABC7 ABC7

Perspective

Patients are getting infected with covid-19 in the hospital. It happened to one of mine and killed him.

Hospital-acquired covid-19 happens. Often, it occurs when staff unintentionally spread the disease to patients. By Manoj Jain

India approves AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine

It is the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved for emergency use by India, which has the highest number of infections after the United States.

INDIA Updated: Jan 02, 2021, 15:52 IST Reuters|

Posted by Susmita Pakrasi New Delhi

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-approves-astrazeneca-s-covid-19-vaccine/story-YUIxd2XWW4dqE4zkjcczGN.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

#WorldNewsTonight #Vaccine #COVID

Thousands waiting for hours in line for COVID-19 vaccine

•Dec 31, 2020
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Opinion The Editorial Board

We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer?

America did not sufficiently plan for how to get millions of people vaccinated

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-expiring.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Israel says it has vaccinated 7% of its population against Covid, it’s less than 1% in U.S.

PUBLISHED THU, DEC 31 202011:54 AM ESTUPDATED THU, DEC 31 202012:45 PM EST Will Feuer@WILLFOIA

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California hospitals overwhelmed by surge of COVID-19 patients

Dec 31, 2020
CBS Evening News CBS Evening News

HEALTH

America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors

The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.

ROBINSON MEYER AND ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL DECEMBER 31, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/america-has-not-fixed-its-deadliest-pandemic-errors/617532/

A Reporter at Large January 4 & 11, 2021 Issue

The Plague Year

The mistakes and the struggles behind America’s coronavirus tragedy.

By Lawrence Wright December 28, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/04/the-plague-year

COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, formerly AZD1222

Covid-19: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine approved for use in UK - BBC News

•Dec 30, 2020
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AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid Vaccine Gains First Clearance With U.K. Nod

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Astra-Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine Gets U.K. Clearance

•Dec 30, 2020
Bloomberg Markets and Finance

Bloomberg Markets and Finance

AstraZeneca-Oxford Covid Vaccine Gains First Clearance With U.K. Nod

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New COVID-19 Variant Found In Colorado Man Amid Vaccine Rollout Challenges | TODAY

•Dec 30, 2020

TODAY TODAY

More Contagious Virus Variant Found in 2 States, Alarming Scientists

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/coronavirus-mutant-colorado.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

What we know about the latest highly infectious coronavirus variant

December 29, 2020 | 9:07 PM EDT

China Approves Sinopharm's Covid Vaccine for General Use

•Dec 30, 2020
Bloomberg Markets and Finance

Business

China Approves First Vaccine for Use in General Population

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China Approves Its First Coronavirus Vaccine

The country is now set to inoculate tens of millions with a vaccine manufactured by the state-run company Sinopharm.

Science

China promises free jabs for all as Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine approved

The approval comes with conditions but regulator is confident the vaccine is safe and effective
National Health Commission says the shot is a ‘public good’ and will be provided to national inoculation programme

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing and Simone McCarthy

Published: 12:00pm, 31 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3115947/china-approves-sinopharms-covid-19-vaccine-promises-public-free

http://www.sinopharm.com/en/1156.html

#LosAngeles #CovidDeaths #NBCNews

Los Angeles County Reports Most Covid Deaths Since Start Of Pandemic | NBC News NOW

•Dec 31, 2020
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Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan sentenced to four years in jail for Wuhan coronavirus reports

•Dec 28, 2020
South China Morning Post

Diplomacy

EU demands China release citizen reporter Zhang Zhan and 12 Hong Kong activists detained at sea

Zhang was jailed on Monday for four years for her coverage of the early stages of the Covid-19 outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists were arrested by authorities as they tried to flee to Taiwan by speedboat in August

Agence France-Presse Published: 11:21pm, 29 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3115749/eu-demands-china-release-citizen-reporter-zhang-zhan-and-12

Wuhan’s low-income workers struggle to find jobs eight months after Covid-19 lockdown lifted

•Dec 29, 2020
South China Morning Post

#Coronavirus #SundayTODAY

US Surpasses 19 Million COVID-19 Cases Amid Fears Of Holiday Surge | Sunday TODAY

•Dec 27, 2020
TODAY TODAY

Hospitals nationwide worry about post-Christmas COVID-19 surge

•Dec 26, 2020
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Coronavirus: Hong Kong extends hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals to 21 days

Dec 25, 2020
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#Coronavirus #SundayTODAY

A Look Back At Covering The Coronavirus Pandemic: ‘Unlike Anything I’d Experienced’ | Sunday TODAY

•Dec 27, 2020
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COVID-19 surge threatens parts of U.S. over holiday season

•Dec 25, 2020
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California becomes first state to surpass 2 million COVID-19 cases

•Dec 24, 2020
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#GMA #UKTravelBan #UKLockdown

Countries ban travel from UK after new variant of COVID-19 detected

•Dec 21, 2020
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How the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine was developed

•Dec 20, 2020
60 Minutes 60 Minutes

Coronavirus: BMJ urges NYT to correct vaccine 'mixing' article

The editor of the British Medical Journal has asked the New York Times to correct an article that says UK guidelines allow two Covid-19 vaccines to be mixed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-55519042?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

#CNBC

Why Pfizer And Moderna Can't Be Sued For Covid Vaccine Side Effects

•Dec 22, 2020
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#CNBC

Operation Warp Speed: Will send 4.67M more Covid-19 vaccine doses next week

•Dec 23, 2020
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Small businesses still struggling eight months after Wuhan’s Covid-19 lockdown was lifted

•Dec 16, 2020
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U.S. COVID-19 death toll passes 300,000 as vaccine rolls out

•Dec 15, 2020
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COVID-19 vaccines delivered to all 50 states

Dec 13, 2020

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The Country That Learned to Live With Covid-19

•Dec 15, 2020
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US Sees Deadliest Week Of COVID-19 Pandemic, Hospitals Overwhelmed | TODAY

•Dec 12, 2020

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#GMA #COVID19 #Vaccine

Pfizer’s historic COVID-19 vaccine shipping out | GMA

•Dec 12, 2020
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U.S. Health Care Workers Prepare To Receive Covid-19 Vaccine | NBC Nightly News

•Dec 12, 2020
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Communities of color skeptical of COVID-19 vaccine

Dec 11, 2020

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China’s Chengdu city in ‘wartime mode’ after new local Covid-19 infections reported

Dec 9, 2020
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New concerns as COVID-19 hospitalizations hit record high

•Dec 11, 2020

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Indian villagers oppose efforts to remove hundreds of ‘god’ bats despite Covid-19 concerns

•Sep 4, 2020
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Coronavirus: A look inside China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology

•Jul 8, 2020
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Coronavirus Vaccines - An Introduction

Oct 2, 2020

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California sees record-breaking COVID-19 numbers

Dec 9, 2020

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US marks 15,000 COVID-19 deaths in a week

Dec 8, 2020
ABC News

Emergency action taken to slow spread of COVID-19

Dec 6, 20201
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States, cities lock down again as U.S. sees record daily COVID-19 cases, deaths

Dec 4, 20201
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#covid #california

US tops 1 million new COVID-19 cases in first 5 days of December l GMA

Dec 6, 2020 Good Morning America

#CNBC

What Is An mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine?

Sep 19, 2020

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UK approves Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for use in December

Dec 2, 2020
South China Morning Post

Europe

Britain defends speed of approval for Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine

The UK’s drugs regulator gave emergency approval for the vaccine on Wednesday, and the government plans to start rolling it out next week
Leading US infectious disease scientist Anthony Fauci on Thursday said the MHRA had ‘rushed’ approval, but he later apologised

Agence France-Presse Published: 11:36pm, 4 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3112667/britain-defends-speed-approval-pfizer-biontechs-coronavirus

Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Publication of Results from Landmark Phase 3 Trial of BNT162b2 COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in The New England Journal of Medicine

Thu December 10, 2020 10:21 AM|Business Wire|About: BNTX, PFE

Data from 43,448 participants, half of whom received BNT162b2 and half of whom received placebo, showed that the vaccine candidate was well tolerated and demonstrated 95% efficacy in preventing COVID-19 in those without prior infection 7 days or more after the second dose
Vaccine efficacy observed in the overall study population was also generally consistent across subgroups defined by age, gender, race, ethnicity, baseline body mass index (BMI), or presence of other underlying co-morbidities
Partial protection from the vaccine candidate appears to begin as early as 12 days after the first dose
These data were included in the requests for regulatory authorization submitted to regulatory agencies across the globe, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency

NEW YORK & MAINZ, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pfizer Inc. (PFE) (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (BNTX) (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced that the New England Journal of Medicine has published safety and final efficacy results from the pivotal Phase 3 trial of BNT162b2, their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine candidate. In the trial of 43,448 participants, who were 16 years and older, 21,720 of whom received BNT162b2 and 21,728 placebo, the two-dose regimen of 30 μg BNT162b2, which was given 21 days apart, was well-tolerated and demonstrated vaccine efficacy of 95% against COVID-19.

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Pfizer coronavirus vaccine more than 90 per cent effective, US drug maker says

Nov 9, 2020
South China Morning Post

WHO-backed probes move forward to try to shed light on early days of coronavirus

Two missions have been in the works since May, and pressure is mounting for insight into how the virus emerged
They have a different focus, but both inquiries will dig into a contentious period – the start of the outbreak

Simone McCarthy Published: 1:30am, 13 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3109635/who-backed-probes-move-forward-try-shed-light-early-days

The places that successfully contained Covid-19 and why others are not following their lead

Dec 10, 2020

South China Morning Post

WHO-backed probes move forward to try to shed light on early days of coronavirus

Two missions have been in the works since May, and pressure is mounting for insight into how the virus emerged
They have a different focus, but both inquiries will dig into a contentious period – the start of the outbreak

Simone McCarthy Published: 1:30am, 13 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3109635/who-backed-probes-move-forward-try-shed-light-early-days

Cambodia closes private schools and museums after first locally transmitted Covid-19 cases

Dec 2, 2020
South China Morning Post

COVID-19

Get the latest information from the CDC about COVID-19.

Coronavirus: Europe’s second wave puts hospitals under pressure again as cases soar

•Nov 11, 2020
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National The coronavirus pandemic in the voices of those who lived it Glimpses into the lives that were changed by the covid-19 outbreak Updated Dec. 30, 2020

Outpacing Trump’s Operation Warp Speed, China to give coronavirus vaccine to 50 million in a month

By Eva Dou Jan. 4, 2021 at 5:17 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/coronavirus-vaccine-china-lunar-new-year/2021/01/04/d9401354-4e34-11eb-a1f5-fdaf28cfca90_story.html

Scientists Debate Holding Back Second Vaccine Dose

There is international disagreement on which approach will better contain the virus. Public officials have weighed whether to receive early shots to demonstrate their safety.

As the vaccine rollout falters, scientists debate new tactics.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/04/world/covid-19-coronavirus

U.S. death toll tops 350,000 amid frustration over vaccine rollout

By Antonia Noori Farzan Kim Bellware, Brittany Shammas and Siobhán O'Grady Jan. 4, 2021 at 8:31 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/04/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

China lab leak is the 'most credible' source of the coronavirus outbreak, says top US government official, amid bombshell claims Wuhan scientist has turned whistleblower

Donald Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Pottinger spoke
Mr Pottinger told politicians leak is emerging as 'most credible source' of virus
He claimed the pathogen may have escaped through a 'leak or an accident'

By ABUL TAHER, SECURITY CORRESPONDENT FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

PUBLISHED: 17:06 EST, 2 January 2021 | UPDATED: 07:06 EST, 3 January 2021

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9106951/Lab-leak-credible-source-coronavirus-outbreak-says-government-official.html

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Where will Israel's 'green passport' proof of COVID vaccination take you?

Vaccinated Israelis will be able to travel to the Dead Sea and Eilat, skip mandatory quarantine if they return from abroad or come in contact with a coronavirus patient, and visit cultural venues and attend sports events.

By Maytal Yasur Beit-Or Published on 12-25-2020 09:03 Last modified: 12-25-2020 09:03

https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/12/25/where-will-israels-green-passport-proof-of-covid-vaccination-take-you/?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Confusion and Shortages Impede Some U.S. Vaccination Campaigns

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/03/world/covid19-coronavirus

Prognosis

U.K. May Tighten Curbs; U.S. Deaths Pass 350,000: Virus Update

Bloomberg News January 2, 2021, 5:44 PM EST Updated on January 3, 2021, 9:04 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-02/n-y-passes-1-million-cases-u-k-reaches-record-virus-update?srnd=premium

India approves two vaccines as it prepares for massive immunization push

The country of more than 1.3 billion confronts logistical challenges to vaccinating 300 million people in the first phase.

By Niha Masih

Southeast Asia

Coronavirus: Australian clusters grow from liquor store case; India approves two vaccines

New South Wales reported eight new cases and Victoria three as new measures to combat the disease kicked in
India’s drugs regulator gave emergency authorization for the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Bharat Biotech jabs

Agencies Published: 3:52pm, 3 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3116241/coronavirus-australian-clusters-grow-liquor-store-case

Britain Opts for Mix-and-Match Vaccinations, Confounding Experts

If a second dose of one vaccine isn’t available, another may be substituted, according to new guidelines in the country.

Highly Contagious Virus Variant Now Found in 33 Countries

At least 40 countries are barring travelers arriving from Britain. In the U.S., the variant has been found in Florida, Colorado and California.

Opinion E. Tammy Kim

This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly

The first coronavirus outbreak in the United States happened in a nursing home in February. Since then, it’s only gotten worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/sunday/covid-nursing-homes.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Hong Kong in Talks to Use Vaccine Records for Travel, HKET Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-02/hong-kong-in-talks-to-use-vaccine-records-for-travel-hket-says?srnd=premium

India approves AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine

It is the first Covid-19 vaccine to be approved for emergency use by India, which has the highest number of infections after the United States.

INDIA Updated: Jan 02, 2021, 15:52 IST Reuters| Posted by Susmita Pakrasi New Delhi

Third state identifies U.K. virus variant as U.S. surpasses 20 million cases

Florida identified a case of the more transmissible variant, first detected in the U.K., as the number of vaccinations in the United States crossed 3 million.

By Marisa Iati and Reis Thebault

Video: What we know about the latest coronavirus variant

Business

U.S. Passes 20 Million Cases as New Year Begins: Virus Update

Bloomberg News December 31, 2020, 6:02 PM EST Updated on January 1, 2021, 1:18 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/n-y-and-california-end-year-shattering-records-virus-update?srnd=premium

National

Coronavirus updates: Third state identifies more transmissible variant as U.S. cases surpass 20 million

By Marisa Iati Marisa Iati General Assignment reporter Follow Jan. 1, 2021 at 1:49 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/01/coronavirus-covid-updates/

Virus Numbers Are Surging. Why Is New York’s Vaccine Rollout Sluggish?

With a new variant of the virus emerging elsewhere in the country, it’s crucial to vaccinate New Yorkers quickly. But so far, only about 88,000 have received the shots.

By Joseph Goldstein Jan. 1, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/nyregion/nyc-covid-vaccine-rollout.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

QuickTake

What You Need to Know About Allergic Reactions to Covid Vaccines

By John Lauerman December 31, 2020, 12:01 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/what-to-know-about-allergic-reactions-to-the-vaccine-quicktake?srnd=premium

Prognosis

N.Y. and California End Year Shattering Records: Virus Update

Bloomberg News December 30, 2020, 6:15 PM EST Updated on December 31, 2020, 4:50 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-30/new-strain-enters-california-nyc-positive-rate-up-virus-update?srnd=premium

Pandemic Exits 2020 With Record Cases Across Globe: Virus Update

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/n-y-and-california-end-year-shattering-records-virus-update?srnd=premium

HEALTH

America Has Not Fixed Its Deadliest Pandemic Errors

The COVID Tracking Project’s extensive, daily data collection reveals the simple yet devastating ways the U.S. has failed.

ROBINSON MEYER AND ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL DECEMBER 31, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/america-has-not-fixed-its-deadliest-pandemic-errors/617532/

Opinion The Editorial Board

We Came All This Way to Let Vaccines Go Bad in the Freezer?

America did not sufficiently plan for how to get millions of people vaccinated

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/opinion/coronavirus-vaccines-expiring.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

East Asia

Coronavirus: India approves AstraZeneca vaccine; Singapore bans visitors from South Africa

The shots could start to be transported from cold storage to Indian states as early as Saturday
All long-term pass holders and short-term visitors with travel history to South Africa within the last 14 days will not be allowed entry into Singapore

Agencies Published: 1:15pm, 1 Jan, 2021

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3116080/coronavirus-india-prepares-test-vaccine-delivery-system-japan

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Israel says it has vaccinated 7% of its population against Covid, it’s less than 1% in U.S.

PUBLISHED THU, DEC 31 202011:54 AM ESTUPDATED THU, DEC 31 202012:45 PM EST Will Feuer@WILLFOIA

CHINA / SOCIETY China grants conditional market approval for its first homemade COVID-19 vaccine By Leng Shumei, Hu Yuwei and Zhang Hui Published: Dec 31, 2020 10:11 AM Updated: Dec 31, 2020 04:11 PM

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SCIENCE

The Mutated Virus Is a Ticking Time Bomb

There is much we don’t know about the new COVID-19 variant—but everything we know so far suggests a huge danger.

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI DECEMBER 31, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/virus-mutation-catastrophe/617531/

Health The covid-19 symptoms to watch out for

‘ALMOST LIKE A GHOST’ Six portraits from a year defined by loss Dec. 30, 2020

‘ALMOST LIKE A GHOST’

Six portraits from a year defined by loss

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Photo editing by Chloe Coleman, Olivier Laurent and Karly Domb Sadof. Locator maps by Chiqui Esteban. Design and development by Jake Crump.

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25 Days That Changed the World: How Covid-19 Slipped China’s Grasp

We examined how China’s response unleashed the virus and foreshadowed battles between scientists and political leaders that would define the pandemic.

Covid-19 pandemic: in-depth analysis one year after Wuhan

Updated: 29 Dec 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/series/3113354/covid-19-pandemic-depth-analysis-one-year-after-wuhan?module=coivd_table&pgtype=homepage

Visual Story

A pandemic at our doorsteps

By Michael Robinson Chavez

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/photography/2020/12/29/pandemic-our-doorsteps/

The Place Hit Hardest by the Virus A town along Route 66, nestled beside Native American land, is now a scene of empty businesses and residents struggling with uncertainty.

Here’s Why Distribution of the Vaccine Is Taking Longer Than Expected

Health officials and hospitals are struggling with a lack of resources. Holiday staffing and saving doses for nursing homes are also contributing to delays.

By Rebecca Robbins, Frances Robles and Tim Arango Dec. 31, 2020Updated 1:01 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/31/health/vaccine-distribution-delays.html

Where Year Two of the Pandemic Will Take Us

As vaccines roll out, the U.S. will face a choice about what to learn and what to forget.

Story by Ed Yong DECEMBER 29, 2020 HEALTH

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-year-two/617528/

Asia / East Asia

Coronavirus: Tokyo facing third wave of ‘unprecedented magnitude’, warns city’s governor

With the latest figures, the capital has seen 58,840 confirmed cases in total
Since December 17, Tokyo’s alert has been raised to the highest of four levels, the first time since the outbreak

Associated Press Published: 12:25am, 31 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3115904/unprecedented-magnitude-tokyo-facing-third-wave-coronavirus

Science

China promises free jabs for all as Sinopharm’s Covid-19 vaccine approved

The approval comes with conditions but regulator is confident the vaccine is safe and effective
National Health Commission says the shot is a ‘public good’ and will be provided to national inoculation programme

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing and Simone McCarthy Published: 12:00pm, 31 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3115947/china-approves-sinopharms-covid-19-vaccine-promises-public-free

China Approves Its First Coronavirus Vaccine

The country is now set to inoculate tens of millions with a vaccine manufactured by the state-run company Sinopharm.

Dec 31, 2020 06:37 PM SOCIETY & CULTURE

China Approves Its First Coronavirus Vaccine

By Zhao Jinzhao and Matthew Walsh

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-12-31/china-approves-its-first-coronavirus-vaccine-101645523.html

14 Million Doses Shipped, 2.6 Million Injected: The Lag in U.S. Vaccines

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/health/covid-vaccines-slow-rollout.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Highly Touted Monoclonal Antibody Therapies Sit Unused in Hospitals

Medical centers overrun with critical Covid-19 patients are using just a fraction of allotted supplies of the treatment

By Sarah Toy , Joseph Walker and Melanie Evans Dec. 27, 2020 11:42 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/highly-touted-monoclonal-antibody-therapies-sit-unused-in-hospitals-11609087364?mod=searchresults_pos1&page=1&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

HEALTH

The Winter Surge Is Fracturing

Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.

WHET MOSERDECEMBER 30, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-national-return-patchwork/617510/

Two visions of ‘normal’ collided in our abnormal pandemic year

Opinion by Megan McArdle

Vaccines issued slowly as federal officials leave final steps to beleaguered states

The reasons for the slow start in the United States include a chronic lack of public health funding and the absence of unified communication about the vaccines and their availability. By Isaac Stanley-Becker

What You Need to Know About Allergic Reactions to Covid Vaccines

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/what-to-know-about-allergic-reactions-to-the-vaccine-quicktake?srnd=premium

Millions of Americans Are Calling in Sick, Stunting the Recovery

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-31/covid-keeps-millions-from-work-just-as-u-s-economy-loses-steam?srnd=premium

‘ALMOST LIKE A GHOST’

Six portraits from a year defined by loss Dec. 30, 2020

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2020/florida-hong-kong-covid-loss/?itid=hp-top-table-main

Coronavirus: tributes pour in for Li Wenliang, the Chinese doctor who first warned of a deadly disease

‘I hope in the future there will be fewer dead heroes, and more normal, great, everyday people,’ social media user says
‘Our attention then was still on saving the sufferers, we didn’t expect that someone as young as him wouldn’t be able to survive,’ Wuhan doctor Ai Fen says

William Langley Published: 11:30pm, 30 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3115886/coronavirus-tributes-pour-li-wenliang-chinese-doctor-who-first

Prognosis

U.S. States Rewrite Vaccine Rules to Get Covid Shots Movingupdated

N.Y. Reports Record Daily Virus Cases as Cuomo Looks to 2021
Moderna Vaccine Shipments to Texas Delayed by Temperature Snag
California Joins Colorado With Highly Transmissible Covid Strain

You’re Infected With the Coronavirus. But How Infected?

Knowing the amount of virus carried in the body could help doctors predict the course of a patient’s illness.

Politics

China Is Making It Harder to Solve the Mystery of How Covid Began

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-30/china-is-making-it-harder-to-solve-the-mystery-of-how-covid-began?srnd=premium

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine approved by UK regulator

PUBLISHED WED, DEC 30 20201:57 AM EST UPDATED WED, DEC 30 20207:34 AM EST

Matt Clinch@MATTCLINCH81 Holly Ellyatt@HOLLYELLYATT

The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is cheaper than others and does not need to be kept at the ultra-low temperatures required by the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
The shot is expected to be rolled out next week.
A vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech has been given to 600,000 people in the U.K.,

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/30/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-vaccine-approved-by-uk-regulator-.html?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine authorised for emergency supply in the UK

PUBLISHED30 December 2020 30 December 2020 07:00 GMT

Working with the UK government, first vaccinations to begin early in the New Year

Regulatory interactions continue around the world for next approvals

https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-authorised-in-uk.html

U.K. Approves AstraZeneca Drug as It Moves to Speed Up Vaccinations

Health officials are hoping to soon vaccinate up to two million people per week as the country’s hospitals are overwhelmed by cases of a variant of the virus.

Prognosis

U.K. Clears Astra Vaccine; German Deaths Surge: Virus Update

Prognosis

Wuhan’s Covid Cases May Have Been 10 Times Higher, Study Shows

Bloomberg News December 29, 2020, 1:06 AM EST

Some 500,000 may have been infected in China’s virus epicenter
China has been criticized for allegedly undercounting its data

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-29/wuhan-s-covid-cases-may-have-been-10-times-higher-study-shows

Prognosis

Covid Death Toll to Reach 400,000 Before Trump Departs, CDC Says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-29/cdc-forecasts-400-000-u-s-covid-deaths-before-trump-s-exit?srnd=premium

Covid-19 pandemic: in-depth analysis one year after Wuhan

Updated: 29 Dec 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/series/3113354/covid-19-pandemic-depth-analysis-one-year-after-wuhan?module=coivd_table&pgtype=homepage

Despite Strict Measures, England’s Virus Cases Are Soaring

Hospitals are now treating more patients than at any time during the pandemic as the country battles a variant form of the coronavirus.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/29/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

UPDATED TUE, DEC 29 202010:01 AM EST

Covid live updates: Lack of deep genetic analysis means U.S. may not detect the new Covid variant, expert says

CNBC.com staff

This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/29/covid-live-updates.html

Prognosis

Southern California Lockdown Likely to Be Extended: Virus Update

UK to roll out Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in January: reports

Regulator could approve the jab by midweek, according to local media.

BY LAURENS CERULUS December 27, 2020 11:11 am

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-to-speed-up-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-reports/?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

After the Vaccine: Sore Arm, Yes. Headache, Maybe. Regrets, No.

Here is what some of the first Americans to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are saying about how they felt afterward, with some side effects but no second thoughts.

By Amy Harmon Dec. 28, 2020Updated 9:41 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/28/us/vaccine-first-patients-covid.html

Isolated residents and an overwhelmed hospital: Covid-19 hits rural Western Maryland

The pandemic stayed far away until October. Then cases surged to four times the state average.By Erin Cox

Prognosis

Germany Plans Vaccine Boost; Israel Drive-Through: Virus Update

Top U.S. Health Officials Warn of Post-Holiday Coronavirus Surge
Los Angeles Vaccine Recipients Can Put the Proof in Apple Wallet
More Than 4.4 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

Tracking vaccine distribution, state by state

By Washington Post staff

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Biotech-WAR$™-God, Turn It Around 上帝，把它转过来

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Biotech-WAR$™-God, Turn It Around 上帝，把它转过来

Coronavirus: Cases of new variant appear worldwide

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55452262

Inside a Rhode Island field hospital, preparing for the worst of the pandemic

With tens of thousands of covid-19 patients hospitalized during the year-end explosion of the coronavirus, health authorities are again turning to field hospitals across the United States. By Lenny Bernstein

Dec. 26, 2020 at 6:17 p.m. EST CRANSTON, R.I.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/inside-a-rhode-island-field-hospital-preparing-for-the-worst-of-the-pandemic/2020/12/26/b69c389e-446d-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html

E.U. begins vaccine rollout amid concerns over supply

There has been mounting frustration as Europeans have watched Pfizer and BioNtech’s vaccine, developed in Germany with German federal government funding, roll out first in the United States, United Kingdom, Israel and the United Arab Emirates. By Loveday Morris

Coronavirus: Beijing goes into emergency mode after five new cases recorded

New controls introduced in the Chinese capital as the city authorities warn the epidemic control situation is ‘severe’
Mass testing carried out in two districts where new Covid-19 cases have been detected

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 9:00pm, 27 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3115474/coronavirus-beijing-goes-emergency-mode-after-five-new-cases

CDC squandered weeks pursuing complex test at pandemic’s start

Thai scientists deployed a coronavirus test within hours. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention took 46 days to roll out a working test as the virus spread.By David Willman

The CDC’s failed race against covid-19: A threat underestimated and a test overcomplicated

Thai scientists deployed a coronavirus test within hours. The CDC took 46 days to roll out a working test as the virus spread.

Prognosis

Mutant Strain Spreads; N.J. Records Worst Month: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsDecember 25, 2020, 5:08 PM EST Updated on December 26, 2020, 4:52 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-25/nyc-hospitalizations-rise-pope-makes-vaccine-plea-virus-update?srnd=premium

As Virus Resurges in Africa, Doctors Fear the Worst Is Yet to Come

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/world/africa/africa-coronavirus-pandemic.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

BusinessJapan Bans Foreigners; U.S. Cases See Holiday Low: Virus

Prognosis

More Than 3.5 Million Shots Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

How Many Coronavirus Deaths Could Occur in Each U.S. State

Tracking the Spread of the Coronavirus Outbreak in the U.S.

Health & Environment

How will India vaccinate 1.3 billion people? Its army of auxiliary nurses and midwives know

These thousands of vaccinators form the first point of ground-level contact in the country’s health care system, and are ready to take on the coronavirus
But immunization drives in India can be a fraught process, with distrust of both the vaccines and those who administer them common

Kunal Purohit Published: 11:00am, 24 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3115153/how-will-india-vaccinate-13-billion-people-its-army

Science

If Covid-19 vaccines cause side-effects, who pays: makers or governments?

Procurement contracts for vaccines have forced governments to consider whether they should give legal indemnity to vaccine makers
Some countries have enacted laws to clarify who is liable when vaccines cause adverse effects, but the pandemic poses a greater challenge

Ji Siqi Published: 10:00pm, 26 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3115258/if-covid-19-vaccines-cause-side-effects-who-pays-makers-or

People Are Dying. Whom Do We Save First With the Vaccine?

With limited doses available, and a pandemic claiming more lives every day, a complex moral calculus has begun. Five thinkers weigh the choices ahead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/magazine/who-should-get-the-covid-vaccine-next.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

HEALTH

The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West

Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.

THE COVID TRACKING PROJECT DECEMBER 24, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/pandemic-crashing-through-south-and-west/617513/

THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS

California Is 1st State To Hit 2 Million Cases, And Hospitals Are Out Of ICU Beds

December 24, 20202:33 PM ET LAUREL WAMSLEY

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/24/950038710/california-is-first-state-to-hit-2-million-cases-and-hospitals-are-out-of-icu-be

Covid-19 pandemic: in-depth analysis one year after Wuhan

Updated: 23 Dec 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/series/3113354/covid-19-pandemic-depth-analysis-one-year-after-wuhan

One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/25/business/coronavirus-vaccines-global-economy.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Coronavirus Variant Is Indeed More Transmissible, New Study Suggests

Researchers warn that the British variant is so contagious that new control measures, including closing down schools and universities, may be necessary.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/health/coronavirus-uk-variant.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=41290854&algo=identity&variant=no-exp&imp_id=970903964&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

Sinovac Covid Shot’s Efficacy Uncertain Despite Brazil, Turkey Results

A Holiday Haunted by Loss

This was the year of the empty seat at the table. We spent Thanksgiving with seven families who lost relatives to Covid.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/23/magazine/covid-family-deaths.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Middle East

Coronavirus: Turkey says China’s CoronaVac vaccine 91.25 per cent effective

Health minister says results are first to be released for the Sinovac product; the firm recently delayed an announcement to consolidate data from global trials
Turkey is expecting a shipment of 3 million doses on Monday, as part of a deal for 50 million doses

Associated Press Published: 2:44am, 25 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3115318/coronavirus-turkey-says-chinas-coronavac-vaccine-9125-cent

The covid-19 symptoms to watch out for

The World’s Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time

At least one thing went right in 2020: Pharmaceutical companies came through. Thank you, science.

By Drew Armstrong

The World’s Most Loathed Industry Gave Us a Vaccine in Record Time

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-12-23/covid-vaccine-how-big-pharma-saved-the-world-in-2020?srnd=premium

More Than 3.3 Million Shots
Given: Covid-19 Vaccine Tracker

The U.S. has administered 1.23 million doses, according to Bloomberg’s count Updated: December 24, 2020, 1:42 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/?srnd=premium

With the virus raging, Europeans grudgingly accept the dashed hopes of Christmas

By Chico Harlan, William Booth and Loveday Morris

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong fourth wave: hotel quarantine for overseas arrivals extended to 21 days from current 14 amid fears of new variants, as city records 71 Covid-19 cases

Health officials appeal to people to avoid large gatherings, pointing to cases surfacing just days after winter solstice get-togethers
Latest coronavirus caseload included 61 locally transmitted infections, of which 30 were untraceable

Danny Lee, Gigi Choy, Kathleen Magramo and Chris Lau

Published: 11:10am, 24 Dec, 202

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3115208/hong-kong-fourth-wave-impromptu-covid-19

In a Pandemic Fairy Tale, a Garden Leads to a Magical Friendship

A 4-year-old girl coping with the loneliness of the pandemic created a tiny garden, and kindled an unlikely friendship with an enchanted neighbor who moved into her tree.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/style/fairy-garden-covid.html

Science

New Virus Strain’s Transmissibility to Cause More Deaths: Study

By Corinne Gretler December 24, 2020, 4:25 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-24/new-virus-strain-s-transmissibility-to-cause-more-deaths-study?srnd=premium

Prognosis

Merck-U.S. Deal for Covid Drug Shows Need for Therapies Persists

By Riley Griffin December 23, 2020, 10:28 AM EST

As vaccines roll out, Warp Speed in pact for experimental drug
Continued surge in infections propels push for more treatments

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/merck-u-s-deal-for-covid-drug-shows-need-for-therapies-persists?srnd=premium

Merck Announces Supply Agreement with U.S. Government for Initial Doses of Investigational Biological Therapy for the Treatment of Patients with Severe and Critical COVID-19

December 23, 2020 6:45 am EST

KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (NYSE: MRK)

https://www.merck.com/news/merck-announces-supply-agreement-with-u-s-government-for-initial-doses-of-investigational-biological-therapy-for-the-treatment-of-patients-with-severe-and-critical-covid-19/

Prognosis

Pfizer to Supply U.S. With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses

By John Lauerman December 23, 2020, 7:20 AM EST Updated on December 23, 2020, 8:00 AM EST

Deal will double the doses available for immunization push
Merck, Warp Speed strike pact on experimental treatment

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/pfizer-agrees-to-supply-u-s-with-100-million-more-vaccine-doses?srnd=premium

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong fourth wave: city finally secures enough Covid-19 vaccines to cover all residents after striking deal with AstraZeneca

Government has now procured 22.5 million doses, city leader Carrie Lam reveals as she urges everyone to get shots
Indemnity fund to provide help to those who develop rare and serious responses after being vaccinated, but officials say the programme is safe

Phila Siu , Lilian Cheng and Elizabeth Cheung

Published: 12:21pm, 23 Dec, 2020

Hong Kong fourth wave: city finally secures enough Covid-19 vaccines to cover all residents after striking deal with AstraZeneca | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)

Fauci’s Christmas Eve: Turning 80, fighting the pandemic

America’s top infectious-disease doctor says he has worked every day since January. The adulation and criticism are mostly just a distraction.By Joel Achenbach

DECEMBER 22, 20203:23 PMUPDATED 18 HOURS AGO

AstraZeneca says its vaccine should be effective against new coronavirus variant

By Kanishka Singh

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-vaccin-idUKKBN28W2GP?=undefined&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link&taid=undefined#61;5fe28d33ca1f440001beed2f&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

The Virus That Stole Most of 2020 Now Steals Christmas, Too

By Jason Horowitz Dec. 23, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET ROME —

Across Italy and beyond, those who lost loved ones this year had looked forward to a holiday with the rest of their friends and relatives. But for many, it’s not to be.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/world/europe/italy-coronavirus-christmas.html

Health Canada Authorizes Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine in Canada

Wed December 23, 2020 11:20 AM|Business Wire|About: MRNA

Authorization under Health Canada's Interim Order

Canadian government has secured 40 million doses

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) (Nasdaq: MRNA)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18133409-health-canada-authorizes-moderna-covidminus-19-vaccine-in-canada

Science

On China’s coronavirus front line, not everyone wants a vaccine – just yet

Sinovac might release its phase 3 human trial data on Wednesday but little else is known publicly about the vaccine candidates
With Chinese authorities imposing tough border and epidemic controls, there is time to wait for more information, some high-risk workers say

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 7:00am, 23 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3115018/chinas-coronavirus-front-line-not-everyone-wants-vaccine-just

Europe

BioNTech confident its vaccine will work on new coronavirus strain

The BioNtech vaccine, developed with Pfizer, has been authorised in more than 45 countries and has been administered to hundreds of thousands
The German company said the new Covid-19 variant has the same proteins and it has ‘scientific confidence’ its vaccine will be effective

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3115011/biontech-confident-its-vaccine-will-work-new-coronavirus-strain

World / Europe

Explainer |Explainer Provide background, definition and detail of a specific topic, helping the reader understand how something works or what has happened in the past. (Eg. What is Nafta? US and Mexico are on the verge of revising trade deal.) Are new coronavirus strains cause for concern?

Health experts say new UK strain seems to infect more easily
There’s no evidence yet to suggest it is more deadly

Associated Press Published: 10:12am, 21 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3114734/are-new-coronavirus-strains-cause-concern

HEALTH

The Mysterious Link Between COVID-19 and Sleep

The coronavirus can cause insomnia and long-term changes in our nervous systems. But sleep could also be a key to ending the pandemic.

JAMES HAMBLIN DECEMBER 21, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/covid-19-sleep-pandemic-zzzz/617454/

ASK DR. HAMBLIN

Ask Dr. Hamblin: I Have Allergies. Should I Still Get the Vaccine?

Despite alarming news reports, most allergies shouldn’t be an issue.

JAMES HAMBLIN 12:46 PM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/coronavirus-vaccine-allergic-reaction/617482/

Dec 23, 2020 09:13 PMBUSINESS & TECH

In Depth: Questions Persist Over China’s Vaccine Export Deals

By Flynn Murphy

In Depth: Questions Persist Over China’s Vaccine Export Deals - Caixin Global

One Vaccine Side Effect: Global Economic Inequality

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World Updated: December 20, 2020, 9:27 AM EST

Business

'Believe in Science': EU Kicks Off COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-27/eu-launches-vaccine-rollout-historic-day-in-virus-fight?srnd=premium

FOR EUROPE, IT’S WAVE AFTER WAVE

In a roller coaster year of pandemic, the one constant has been the strain on frontline workers, who are already girding themselves for the next surge.

Photographs by The New York Times
Written by Jason Horowitz Dec. 22, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/22/world/europe/covid-europe-hospitals.html

Prognosis

Europe Moves to Isolate U.K. as Mutated Virus Ruins Christmas

By Priscila Azevedo Rocha and Kitty DonaldsonDecember 20, 2020, 8:52 AM EST Updated on December 21, 2020, 1:19 AM EST

France, Germany join Italy in suspending flights from U.K.
People flock to train stations in London, airports crowded

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-20/christmas-travel-chaos-hits-u-k-as-europeans-suspend-flights

More Americans are traveling to Mexico’s Riviera Maya than ever before. The parties have led to more coronavirus cases.

In a state where tourism has been deemed an “essential” service, Tulum’s global reputation as a party destination has not changed during the pandemic.By Kevin Sieff

Hundreds of thousands of families spend holidays with an empty seat at the table

By Emily Davies

QuickTake

Why the U.K.’s Mutated Coronavirus Is Fanning Worries: QuickTake

By Jason Gale December 20, 2020, 11:04 PM EST Updated on December 22, 2020, 4:06 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-21/why-the-u-k-s-mutated-coronavirus-is-fanning-worries-quicktake

Will vaccines work against the U.K. coronavirus variant?

Dec. 22, 2020 5:00 AM ET BioNTech SE (BNTX) By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor175 Comments

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3646502-will-vaccines-work-against-u-k-coronavirus-variant

Hospitals Deluged as Vaccine Still Months Away for Most in U.S.

Prognosis

Hospitals Deluged as Vaccine Still Months Away for Most in U.S.

By Nic Querolo and John TozziDecember 22, 2020, 10:27 AM EST

Almost twice as many hospitalized compared with earlier waves
Strain threatens to erode quality of care and traumatize staff

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-22/hospitals-deluged-as-vaccine-still-months-away-for-most-in-u-s?srnd=premium

COVID-19 Ranks as a Leading Cause of Death in U.S.

By Carolyn Crist
Dec. 17, 2020 -- COVID-19 became a leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, particularly for people over age 35, according to a new report published in JAMA on Thursday.

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20201217/covid-19-ranks-as-a-leading-cause-of-death-inus

Statement from Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty about new strain of Covid-19

New strain of Covid-19 reported to World Health Organisation

Published 19 December 2020

From:Department of Health and Social Care

Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty said:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/statement-from-chief-medical-officer-professor-chris-whitty-about-new-strain-of-covid-19?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Prognosis

U.K.’s Hancock Says New Covid Mutation Is ‘Out of Control’

By Kitty Donaldson December 20, 2020, 4:50 AM EST Updated on December 20, 2020, 6:38 AM EST

Hancock sees restrictions in place until vaccination rollout
Johnson’s Tories urge parliamentary vote on new restrictions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-20/u-k-s-hancock-says-new-covid-mutatation-is-out-of-control?srnd=premium

England confirms 'new variant' of COVID-19 with faster transmission and alerts the WHO as lockdowns intensify

Dec. 19, 2020 12:45 PM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE)By: Brandy Betz, SA News Editor

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https://seekingalpha.com/news/3646023-england-confirms-new-variant-of-covidminus-19-faster-transmission-and-alerts-who-lockdowns

Countries across Europe halt flights from Britain over concerns about virus mutation

By Miriam Berger

Europe Begins Barring U.K. Travelers, Alarmed Over Virus Mutation

London travel hubs are busy with people fleeing England’s new lockdown. Widespread vaccinations at ravaged U.S. nursing homes are expected to begin this week.

Congress is racing to close a stimulus deal and keep the government funded before a midnight deadline.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/20/world/covid-19-coronavirus

More Than 1.8 Million People Have
Been Vaccinated: Covid-19 Tracker

Our latest U.S. tally includes 211,086 shots given in 38 statesUpdated: December 20, 2020, 11:00 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-vaccine-tracker-global-distribution/?utm_source=webpush&utm_campaign=BreakingNews%7CStory%7CQKT7SWT1UM0W01

European Commission Exercises Option for Additional 80 Million Doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Fri December 18, 2020 8:00 AM|Business Wire|About: MRNA

Total of 160 million doses ordered by the European Commission to date

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Moderna, Inc. (MRNA)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18128762-european-commission-exercises-option-for-additional-80-million-doses-of-moderna-s-covidminus

Two Doses Of Oxford/AstraZeneca Vaccine Prompts Good Immune Response: Early Data Reveals

Data published earlier from later Phase 3 trials showed efficacy was 62 per cent for trial participants given two full doses

Pharma Edited by Nirmalya Sen

(with inputs from Reuters)Updated: December 18, 2020 3:29 pm IST

https://www.ndtv.com/business/preliminary-data-shows-two-doses-of-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-elicits-good-immune-response-2340420?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

ADDING MULTIMEDIA Walgreens Begins Administration of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine in Long-Term Care Facilities

Fri December 18, 2020 7:34 AM|Business Wire|About: WBA

Walgreens (WBA) Plans to Administer the Vaccine to Approximately 3 Million Residents and Staff in 35,000 Long-Term Care Facilities as Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Program

DEERFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today Walgreens began administering Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to residents and staff at long-term care facilities in a monumental first in the company’s 119-year history. Pharmacists are providing the vaccinations at nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Ohio and Connecticut as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Pharmacy Partnership for Long-term Care Program.

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18128681-adding-multimedia-walgreens-begins-administration-of-pfizer-s-covidminus-19-vaccine-in-long

FDA Advisers Back Authorization of Moderna’s Covid Vaccine

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/fda-pfizer-revising-covid-vaccine-guidelines-on-side-effects

States report confusion as federal officials reduce vaccine shipments

Officials in several states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine next week had been reduced, sparking widespread confusion. The vaccine maker’s CEO said it had millions more doses than were being distributed.

By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lena H. Sun

Prognosis

Los Angeles Is Now Worst-Hit U.S. Metro Area for Covid-19 Cases2 hours ago

Fears Prompt Some Medical Workers to Balk at Getting the Vaccine
California Deaths Hit Record; N.Y. Toll Above 100: Virus Update
Tracking the Coronavirus Vaccines That Will End the Pandemic

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-17/los-angeles-is-now-worst-hit-u-s-metro-area-for-covid-19-cases?srnd=premium

The U.S. Sets Records for New Cases and Deaths Heading Into the Holidays

President Emmanuel Macron of France has tested positive for the coronavirus, his office said. An F.D.A. advisory panel is meeting to consider whether to recommend Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/17/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Hang On for Three More Months

Things are grim. Postpone your gatherings until they improve.

ZEYNEP TUFEKCI

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/wait-until-march/617410/

Sam Fazeli

How Many Different Covid-19 Vaccines Do We Need?

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-17/are-pfizer-moderna-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccines-enough?srnd=premium

The United States Is Going Into Hyperinflation

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BioNTech and Fosun Pharma to Supply China with mRNA-based COVID-19 Vaccine

PDF Version

Supply agreement reflects both companies’ shared commitment and efforts to achieve vaccine accessibility and affordability in China
A local Phase 2 clinical trial of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine candidate BNT162b2 is on-going in Jiangsu, China

MAINZ, GERMANY, and SHANGHAI, CHINA, December 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX, “BioNTech” or “the Company”) and Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co., Ltd. (“Fosun Pharma” or “Group”; Stock Code: 600196.SH, 02196.HK) today announced an agreement to supply Mainland China with an initial 100 million doses of their BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine candidate against COVID-19 in 2021, subject to regulatory approval. Initial supply will be delivered from BioNTech’s production facilities in Germany.

https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-and-fosun-pharma-supply-china-mrna-based-covid-19?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

How do home tests for coronavirus work? Where can I get one?

By William Wan

FDA advisers reviewing Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine

The meeting is the last stop before the agency’s expected authorization of the shot. It would be the second vaccine cleared in the U.S.By Laurie McGinley and Carolyn Y. Johnson34 minutes ago

Watch live: FDA panel reviews Moderna vaccine

Prognosis

Vaccine Rollout Hits First U.S. Snags With Delays, Allergic Case

Pence to Receive Vaccine Friday to ‘Build Confidence’ in Shot
Virus Aid Includes $17 Billion for Airlines: Congress Update
Sydney on Alert; New Zealand’s Big Vaccine Plan: Virus Update

‘All of Wilmington is hurting’: Residents fear new phase of pain as pandemic rages on

In President-elect Biden’s Delaware hometown, families are suffering in silence amid an economic recovery that shows signs of fizzling and a pandemic that is only getting worse. By David J. Lynch

Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer

NYC’s mass COVID-19 exodus cost $34B in lost income, study says

By Lia Eustachewich December 15, 2020 | 12:49pm | Updated

https://nypost.com/2020/12/15/nycs-mass-covid-19-exodus-reportedly-cost-34b-in-income/

U.S. Seeks Tens of Millions More Vaccine Doses From Pfizer

The Trump administration is working on a deal that would enable the company to make additional shots for Americans early next year. A surge of infections in Sweden is fueling criticism of the government.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/16/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Perspective

Why might women be less eager to get the vaccine?

By Monica Hesse

Science

Coronavirus: Chinese scientist Li Lanjuan, who pushed for Wuhan lockdown, named among Nature magazine’s 10 best of the year

Zhang Yongzhen, publisher of the genome sequence for the pathogen, also recognised as one of the people who ‘helped shape science’ in 2020
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and America’s top infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci also honoured

William Langley Published: 9:30pm, 16 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3114233/coronavirus-two-chinese-scientists-named-among-nature-magazines

Dec 04, 2020 06:40 PMSOCIETY & CULTURE

Most Covid-19 Patients Could Suffer Long-Term Complications, Expert Warns

By Li Bingrui, Zhao Jinzhao and Ju Yiwen

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-12-04/most-covid-19-patients-could-suffer-long-term-complications-expert-warns-101635790.html

Dec 14, 2020 05:51 AM SOCIETY & CULTURE

Cover Story: The Daunting Challenge of Immunizing the World

By Di Ning, Wen Simin, Chen Lixiong, Zhao Jinzhao and Han Wei

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-12-14/cover-story-the-daunting-challenge-of-immunizing-the-world-101638789.html?internalReferrer=editorspick

Moderna Vaccine Prevents Severe Covid-19, Data Show

FDA review clears path for second vaccine

Moderna’s vaccine could be authorized as soon as Friday after a detailed review by the Food and Drug Administration confirmed that the two-shot regimen was 94 percent effective and carried no serious safety concerns.By Carolyn Y. Johnson7 minutes ago

What you need to know about the Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines

8 facts to combat common misinformation

The covid-19 symptoms to watch out for

By Angela Fritz

Prognosis

NYC Shutdown Likely After Christmas, Mayor Says: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsDecember 14, 2020, 6:03 PM EST Updated on December 15, 2020, 1:54 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/u-s-deaths-surpass-300-000-as-vaccinations-begin-virus-update?srnd=premium

Coronavirus: European nations tighten restrictions ahead of Christmas

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55316597

United States & Canada

Canada begins first Covid-19 vaccinations: ‘Today we turn a corner’

Toronto carer and an octogenarian in Quebec among first to get shots
Most Canadians should be vaccinated by September 2021, PM has said

Reuters Published: 1:35pm, 15 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3113987/canada-begins-first-covid-19-vaccinations-today-we

A Year Like No Other 2020 By Dean Baquet, executive editor

China

How the self-inflicted collapse of US-China scientific ties compounded Washington’s coronavirus failure

When Covid-19 emerged in Wuhan, the few US health specialists remaining in China were relegated to the embassy in Beijing, largely unaware of the new contagion
The severing of contacts interrupted the exchange of information as well as the supply of personal protective equipment that was in short supply in the US

Robert Delaney in Washington Published: 11:00pm, 22 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/3114964/how-self-inflicted-collapse-us-china-scientific-ties-compounded

Sinovac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Shown Effective in Brazil Trials

Brazil is first country to complete Phase 3 trials of Chinese company’s vaccine; official results due out Wednesday

By Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes

Updated Dec. 21, 2020 6:55 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sinovacs-covid-19-vaccine-shown-to-be-effective-in-brazil-trials-11608581330?mod=latest_headlines&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Prognosis

Vaccine Campaign Begins as First Shots Are Given in U.S.

By Angelica LaVito December 14, 2020, 10:29 AM EST

Critical-care nurse is first vaccinated in New York State
Pfizer-BioNTech doses arriving today in nationwide rollout

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-14/vaccine-campaign-begins-as-first-shots-are-given-in-u-s?srnd=premium

Scientists pinpoint genes common among those with severe infections

By Ben Guarino

A new study shows an arthritis drug may help Covid-19 patients recover.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus#a-new-study-shows-an-arthritis-drug-may-help-covid-19-patients-recover

Data from ACTT-2 Trial of Baricitinib in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients Supportive of the EUA Published in New England Journal of Medicine

December 11, 2020

https://investor.lilly.com/news-releases/news-release-details/data-actt-2-trial-baricitinib-hospitalized-covid-19-patients

Covid vaccine: How will the UK jab millions of people?

By Lucy Rodgers and Dominic Bailey
BBC Visual Journalism team

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833

Health & Environment

Singapore to get Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by end of December; plans to vaccinate all on free but voluntary basis by Q3, 2021

Singapore hopes to vaccinate entire population by second half of the year, with the prime minister among earliest recipients to ‘show it’s safe’
The city state is also to ease its coronavirus restrictions from December 28, allowing gatherings of up to eight people

Dewey Sim in Singapore Published: 5:12pm, 14 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3113879/singapore-get-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-end-december

U.S. Begins Vaccine Rollout, With Shots Given in New York

High-risk health care workers are expected to be given priority, and hospitals in all 50 states are scrambling to prepare. Australia and New Zealand intend to establish a travel bubble.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/14/world/covid-19-coronavirus

FDA Chief Contradicts Trump on Vaccine Approval Timeline, Hopes 1st Shot Administered on Monday

BY EMILY CZACHOR ON 12/13/20 AT 1:15 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/fda-chief-contradicts-trump-vaccine-approval-timeline-hopes-1st-shot-administered-monday-1554418?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1607926290765

CORONAVIRUS How Disease X, the epidemic-in-waiting, erupted in China

Health experts warned it would be 'threatening to the world and socially disrupting'. Then the new coronavirus arrived

PUBLISHED 27 FEBRUARY, 2020
ILLUSTRATIONS BY KALIZ LEE

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3052721/wuhan-killer/index.html?src=article-launcher

There are more than 200 types of coronaviruses.
Some are more familiar to you than you may realise…
https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/china/article/3075382/decoding-coronavirus-covid-19/index.html?src=article-launcher

Science

Coronavirus: Covid-19 scientists seek the invisible in Wuhan investigation into deadly pathogen

Researchers from around the world will join Chinese scientists in the hunt for the origins of the virus ‘as soon as possible’, World Health Organization says
Phase one will begin in the central China city where the pandemic began and include the search for ‘patient zero’

Simone McCarthy Published: 10:00pm, 13 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3113753/coronavirus-covid-19-scientists-seek-invisible-wuhan?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20201214&tpcc=enlz-scmp_today&MCUID=50880e407e&MCCampaignID=722de71b1c&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=8

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong must be on Covid-19 alert for whole of 2021 as vaccines are no silver bullet, warns top official, as city’s death toll climbs to 117

Vaccine limitations mean Hong Kong cannot be complacent over contagion risks next year, finance minister says
City logs 95 infections on Sunday, while 42-year-old woman becomes third youngest Hongkonger to die from virus

Chan Ho-him and Phila Siu Published: 12:39pm, 13 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3113755/hong-kong-must-be-covid-19-alert-whole-2021?utm_medium=email&utm_source=mailchimp&utm_campaign=enlz-scmp_today&utm_content=20201214&tpcc=enlz-scmp_today&MCUID=50880e407e&MCCampaignID=722de71b1c&MCAccountID=3775521f5f542047246d9c827&tc=12

Vaccine Shipments Start to Roll in the U.S.

The first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine left a facility in Michigan early Sunday, with UPS and FedEx teaming up to ship them to all 50 states for distribution.

Rebutting Trump, the F.D.A. chief says the vaccine could not have been authorized any sooner.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/13/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Prognosis

Sweden’s Covid Workers Are Quitting in Dangerous Numbers

By Niclas Rolander December 12, 2020, 2:30 AM EST Updated on December 13, 2020, 9:07 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-12/swedish-covid-workers-are-quitting-leaving-icus-short-staffed

Prognosis

Italy Overtakes U.K. as European Country With Most Covid Deaths

By Flavia Rotondi and Maria ErmakovaDecember 13, 2020, 11:21 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-13/italy-overtakes-u-k-as-european-country-with-most-covid-deaths?srnd=premium

Covid’s U.S. toll: Nearly 300,000 dead and a stalemate between fatalism and hope

By Marc Fisher, Scott Wilson and Arelis R. Hernández

James Fallows 2:49 PM / December 11, 2020

What Post-pandemic Repair Could Look Like

https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2020/12/what-post-pandemic-repair-could-look-like/617322/

Health

This doctor has fought covid-19 in his patients for 267 days straight. ‘I was meant to do this.’

By Paulina Villegas Dec. 12, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/12/joseph-varon-covid/

Business

Los Angeles Virus Cases Surpass 500,000 Amid ‘Thanksgiving Surge’

By Linus ChuaDecember 11, 2020, 9:17 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-12/los-angeles-cases-surpass-500-000-amid-thanksgiving-surge?srnd=premium

HEALTH

The Vaccine Is Here. Now for the Hard Part.

An FDA-advisory-committee vote has marked the beginning of the end of the pandemic. But there’s still a long road ahead.

JAMES HAMBLIN DECEMBER 10, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/america-first-covid-19-vaccine-fda-pfizer/617364/

HEALTH

FDA Says First Authorized COVID-19 Vaccine's Benefits 'Outweigh Its Risks'

BY BENJAMIN FEARNOW ON 12/12/20 AT 9:49 AM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/fda-says-first-authorized-covid-19-vaccines-benefits-outweigh-its-risks-1554321?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1607816702859

First Coronavirus Vaccines Head to States, Starting Historic Effort

Distributing supplies is a daunting logistical challenge, involving sophisticated tracking equipment, military contingencies and tight security.

By Abby Goodnough, Reed Abelson and Jan Hoffman Dec. 12, 2020Updated 2:23 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/12/health/covid-vaccine-first.html

Business

Vaccine D-Day Hits With 2.9 Million Doses Set for Delivery

By Robert Langreth, John Tozzi, and Angelica LaVito December 12, 2020, 1:31 PM EST Updated on December 12, 2020, 3:31 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-12/vaccine-d-day-arrives-with-2-9-million-doses-set-for-delivery?srnd=premium

Prognosis

N.Y. Cases Rise Further and California Hits Record: Virus Update

Bloomberg News December 11, 2020, 6:16 PM EST Updated on December 12, 2020, 3:29 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/canada-to-start-vaccines-white-house-pushes-fda-virus-update?srnd=premium

HEALTH

The Next Six Months Will Be Vaccine Purgatory

The period after a vaccine is approved will be strange and confusing, as certain groups of people get vaccinated but others have to wait.

SARAH ZHANG DECEMBER 11, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/next-six-months-will-be-vaccine-purgatory/617371/

Health & Environment

Explainer | Covid-19 vaccines for Hong Kong: how safe are they, and why is the issue a political hot potato?

City’s leader has assured public that all residents will have access to vaccines
Vaccination drive will be government exercise as entry barriers for private sector are high

Chris Lau and Victor Ting Published: 9:00am, 12 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3113667/covid-19-vaccines-hong-kong-how-safe-are-they-and

F.D.A. Expected to Issue Pfizer Vaccine Authorization on Friday Evening

The accelerated timeline comes after President Trump’s chief of staff threatened the F.D.A. head’s job if he didn’t get it done on Friday. The Trump Administration will buy another 100 million doses of Moderna vaccine.

To build confidence, Fauci says he’ll ‘get vaccinated publicly.’

The F.D.A. accelerates its timeline to authorize the Pfizer vaccine to Friday evening after a threat from Trump’s chief of staff.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/11/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Covid-19 Is Creating a New Kind of Financial Midlife Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/covid-news-pandemic-creates-new-kind-of-financial-midlife-crisis?srnd=premium

Opinion Frank S. Hong

Coronavirus US: a society that puts the individual before public health lacks common sense

In China, the sense of community is strong, with people working collectively to fight an indiscriminate threat. But, in America, religious and personal freedoms loom large
A society that is losing 3,000 lives a day to Covid-19 lacks the intelligence grounded in the reality of life

Frank S. Hong Published: 1:30am, 12 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3113517/covid-19-us-society-puts-individual-public-health-lacks-common

Moderna Says U.S. to Buy 100 Million More Vaccine Doses

How many Americans will die of covid-19 before the vaccine reaches scale?

By Philip Bump

Next challenge for officials: Persuade skeptics to get vaccinated

What You Need to Know About Getting Tested for Coronavirus

Long lines, slow results and inconsistent advice have left many of us confused about when and how to get tested. We talked to the experts to answer your questions.

By Tara Parker-Pope and Katherine J. Wu Illustrations by Cathryn Virginia Dec. 9, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/well/live/covid-coronavirus-testing.html

More than 10,000 people in D.C., Maryland and Virginia have died of covid-19

By Rebecca Tan Dec. 10, 2020 at 10:05 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/12/10/10000-covid-deaths-dc-maryland-virginia/

N.Y. Flirts With Covid Record After Months of Controlling Cases

By Nic Querolo December 10, 2020, 12:48 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/n-y-flirts-with-covid-record-after-months-of-controlling-cases?srnd=premium

Coronavirus: Saudi Arabia approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use

Reem Krimly, Al Arabiya EnglishThursday 10 December 2020

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/coronavirus/2020/12/10/Coronavirus-Saudi-Arabia-approves-Pfizer-COVID-19-vaccine-for-use?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

Moderna Announces First Participants Dosed in Phase 2/3 Study of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate in Adolescents

Thu December 10, 2020 7:00 AM|Business Wire|About: MRNA Phase 2/3 study expected to enroll 3,000 healthy participants

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Moderna Inc. (MRNA)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18117473-moderna-announces-first-participants-dosed-in-phase-2-3-study-of-covidminus-19-vaccine

What the Chaos in Hospitals Is Doing to Doctors

Politicians’ refusal to admit when hospitals are overwhelmed puts a terrible burden on healthcare providers.

Story by Jordan Kisner

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/01/covid-ethics-committee/617261/

Intensive Care Beds Are Nearing Capacity Across the Country, New Data Shows

By Lauren Leatherby, John Keefe, Lucy Tompkins, Charlie Smart and Matthew ConlenDec. 9, 2020

Share of I.C.U. beds occupied

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/us/covid-hospitals-icu-capacity.html

A Year Like No Other

2020January February March April May June July August September October November December

By Dean Baquet, executive editor

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/year-in-pictures.html

Britain warns people with ‘significant’ allergic reactions not to take Pfizer vaccine

The warning was issued after two health-care workers reacted adversely to injections.By William Booth and Erin Cunningham

Prognosis

Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Effective But Questions Remain for Elderly

By Suzi Ring, James Paton, and Stephanie BakerDecember 8, 2020, 11:00 AM EST Updated on December 9, 2020, 3:02 AM EST

Shot prevents severe disease, but more data needed on over-55s
Detailed trial results published in The Lancet medical journal

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/astra-vaccine-is-effective-but-leaves-questions-in-older-ages?srnd=premium

What you need to know about the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines

HEALTH

The Pandemic’s Final Surge Will Be Brutal

Over the weekend, the seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths passed the spring’s peak.

WHET MOSER 9:18 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/covid-deaths-seven-day-average-highest-april/617318/

China's state-backed coronavirus vaccine, developed by Sinopharm (OTCPK:SHTDF), was found to have protected 86% of people against COVID-19 in trials conducted on 31,000 volunteers in the UAE.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/uae-says-sinopharm-vaccine-has-86-efficacy-against-covid-19?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3642764-chinas-coronavirus-vaccine-86-efficacy-in-uae-trial

Prognosis

U.S. Covid Deaths Match April Peak With Hospitals Still Filling

Fauci Warns of ‘Dark January’ Amid N.Y. Hospital Capacity Fears

Sino Biopharm secures room for future growth with US$515 million investment in Sinovac’s Covid-19 vaccine unit

Beijing-based generic drug maker buys 15 per cent stake in Sinovac Life Sciences, a unit of Nasdaq-listed pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech
Deal comes ahead of major announcement from China to launch 600 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines for use this year

Eric Ng Published: 3:18pm, 7 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3112855/sino-biopharm-secures-room-future-growth-us515-million

http://www.sinobiopharm.com/index.html#/news

http://www.sinobiopharm.com/index.html#/

中国生物制药向科兴中维注资5.15亿美元，持股15.03%

2020-12-7

2020年12月7日，中国生物制药发布公告称，连同其附属公司的全资附属公司香港俊领有限公司就以5.15亿美元向北京科兴中维生物技术有限公司（简称科兴中维）出资订立协议。于出资完成后，中国生物制药将于科兴中维的注册资本中拥有15.03%权益。科兴中维将于中国生物制药的财务报表中入账列为联营公司。

http://www.sinobiopharm.com/index.html#/news/newsdeatil?id=2630

HEALTH

The U.S. Has Passed the Hospital Breaking Point

A new statistic shows that health-care workers are running out of space to treat COVID-19 patients.

ROBINSON MEYER AND ALEXIS C. MADRIGALDECEMBER 4, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/the-worst-case-scenario-is-happening-hospitals-are-overwhelmed/617301/

Headlines Don’t Capture the Horror We Saw

I chronicled what COVID-19 did to a hospital. America must not let down its guard.

6:00 AM ETKasey GreweAnesthesiologist and critical-care-medicine fellow

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/new-york-doctors-know-how-bad-pandemic-can-get/617302/

Prognosis

U.S. Poised for Vaccine, Outbreak Set to Worsen: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsDecember 5, 2020, 5:26 PM EST Updated on December 6, 2020, 4:29 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-05/u-s-vaccines-may-start-friday-amid-covid-s-worst-virus-update?srnd=premium

East Asia

South Korea tightens coronavirus restrictions, Chinese vaccine doses arrive in Indonesia

Seoul’s social distancing alert was raised to 2.5, as the country reported 631 new Covid-19 cases
Elsewhere in Asia, 1.2 million doses of a China-made vaccine arrived in Indonesia, and Pfizer India applied for emergency-use authorisation for its vaccine

Reuters Published: 6:00pm, 6 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3112777/south-korea-tightens-coronavirus-restrictions-cases-surge-nine

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong experts warn of Christmas Covid-19 rush, predict citywide vaccine coverage by 2022 ‘if lucky’

City confirms 95 new infections with fresh cluster emerging at public housing estate, as professor warns of 20,000 returnees for festive holidays
First batch of shots could arrive by third quarter of next year, citywide protection by 2022, says government adviser on pandemic

Chan Ho-him , Phila Siu and Zoe Low Published: 11:55am, 6 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3112750/coronavirus-hong-kong-infectious-disease-expert

Denmark Plans Partial Lockdown of Main Cities After Record Cases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-06/denmark-plans-partial-lockdown-of-main-cities-after-record-cases?srnd=premium

The covid-19 symptoms to watch out for

By Angela Fritz Dec. 2, 2020 at 5:52 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/12/02/covid-symptoms/

The Virus Is Devastating the U.S., and Leaving an Uneven Toll

The United States saw the most new coronavirus cases of the pandemic on Friday, with deaths and hospitalizations also rising. Underlying conditions largely determine who survives.

By Manny Fernandez, Julie Bosman, Amy Harmon, Danielle Ivory and Mitch Smith

Published Dec. 4, 2020Updated Dec. 5, 2020, 12:44 a.m. ET HOUSTON

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/us/covid-united-states-surge.html

Prognosis

U.S. Deaths Accelerate; Russia Begins Vaccinations: Virus Update

Prognosis

Tracking the Coronavirus Vaccines That Will End the Pandemic

8 coronavirus facts to combat common misinformation

Yes, the novel coronavirus is deadlier than influenza. No, there are no known cures. By Marisa Iati

New Mexico shut down nearly everything to keep hospitals from being overwhelmed by covid-19. It wasn’t enough.

The state will soon allow doctors to ration care as beds fill up and covid deaths mount.By Griff Witte

World / United States & Canada

US coronavirus cases shatter records, San Francisco imposes lockdown

The US logged a record 225,201 new infections on Friday
The San Francisco Bay area is imposing stay-at-home rules to prevent hospitals from becoming overrun by Covid-19 cases

Bloomberg Published: 12:12pm, 5 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3112695/us-coronavirus-cases-shatter-records-san-francisco

Prognosis

NYC Outbreak Worsens; California Warns of Lockdown: Virus Update

Bloomberg News December 2, 2020, 6:05 PM EST Updated on December 3, 2020, 5:18 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/u-k-approves-vaccine-u-s-hospital-use-surges-virus-update

Global Tracker: Cases reach 64.9 million; deaths top 1.5 million

Covid fighters run out of weapons with virus spreading in homes
Covid’s Sun-Belt return targets Miami, Phoenix and Las Vegas
Operation Warp Speed and U.K. vaccine drive leave Europe behind
N.Y. developers hire influencers to sell homes during Covid
Vaccine Tracker: Covid-19 inoculations are about to begin

Europe’s Deadly Second Wave:
How Did It Happen Again?

By Josh Holder, Matina Stevis-Gridneff and Allison McCann Dec. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/04/world/europe/europe-covid-deaths.html

Vaccines offer hope, but brutal months lie ahead

By Joel Achenbach and Jose A. Del Real

How are you feeling about taking a coronavirus vaccine? The Post wants to hear from you.

World

Coronavirus: WHO looks at possible ‘e-vaccination certificates’ for travel

Estonia and the UN health agency have already started a pilot project for a digital ‘smart yellow card’
The World Health Organization does not, however, recommend ‘immunity passports’ or testing as a means of preventing transmissions across borders

Reuters Published: 12:54am, 4 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3112483/coronavirus-who-looks-possible-e-vaccination-certificates-travel

https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus

Prognosis

Vaccines’ Side Effects Risk Sidelining Health Workers While Cases Surge

By Angelica LaVito and Riley GriffinDecember 3, 2020, 4:01 PM EST

Some plan staggered staffing; others end-of-shift shots
Fevers, chills, headaches and joint pain in some participants

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/covid-vaccines-could-bench-health-care-workers-amid-surge

Pandemic is pushing America’s 911 system to ‘breaking point,’ ambulance operators say

Surging demand and financial strain are leaving ambulance corps exhausted and running out of funds, threatening longer wait times and the closure of some providers.By William Wan

Iowa Is What Happens When Government Does Nothing

The story of the coronavirus in the state is one of government inaction in the name of freedom and personal responsibility.

ELAINE GODFREY 6:00 AM ET IOWA CITY, IOWA

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/how-iowa-mishandled-coronavirus-pandemic/617252/

U.S. reports more than 200,000 new cases and 100,000 hospitalizations for first time

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Reporter for the Morning MixJennifer Hassan, Adam Taylor, Kim Bellware and Paulina VillegasDec. 3, 2020 at 8:44 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/03/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

HEALTH

America Is Careening Towards a Pandemic Nightmare Scenario

On Wednesday, the United States broke 100,000 coronavirus hospitalizations for the first time ever.

WHET MOSER DECEMBER 2, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/12/darkest-stretch-pandemic-winter/617285/

U.S. Hits Record Daily Death Toll, With Worse Likely to Come

With cases in the U.S. blowing past the spring peak, more than 100,000 people were hospitalized for Covid-19 on Wednesday. Experts warn that the nation could be facing the most difficult time in its public health history.

U.S. virus deaths have surpassed the spring peak.

Travel nurses are racing to coronavirus hot spots as hospitals in the U.S. fill.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/12/03/world/covid-19-coronavirus

What you need to know about the AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer vaccines

In the third such announcement in as many weeks, AstraZeneca revealed Monday that its vaccine candidate, developed by Oxford University, is up to 90 percent effective in clinical trials. Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, and Moderna have each reported vaccines that are 95 percent effective in trials.

By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Aaron Steckelberg NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Frances Stead Sellers, Lena H. Sun and Christopher Rowland contributed to this report. This story was first published November 17

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/17/covid-vaccines-what-you-need-to-know/?arc404=true

Prognosis

N.Y. Getting Pfizer Shots; CDC Reduces Quarantine: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsDecember 1, 2020, 6:02 PM EST Updated on December 2, 2020, 1:30 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/antibody-test-ok-d-fauci-looks-to-herd-immunity-virus-update?srnd=premium

Prognosis

U.K. Beats U.S. and Germany to Use of Vaccine They Created

By Emily AshtonDecember 2, 2020, 7:48 AM EST Updated on December 2, 2020, 10:04 AM EST

Pfizer, BioNTech shot to be made available in U.K. next week
Medical regulator says ‘no corners whatsoever have been cut’

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-02/u-k-officials-seek-to-reassure-public-over-coronavirus-vaccine

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

Updated: December 2, 2020, 12:26 PM EST

Global Tracker: Cases reach 63.8 million; deaths top 1.48 million

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-cases-world-map/

World

U.S. Covid Cases Found as Early as December 2019, Says Study

“The findings of this report suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infections may have been present in the U.S. in December 2019, earlier than previously recognized,” the paper said.

Bloomberg News December 1, 2020, 3:36 AM EST Updated on December 1, 2020, 3:44 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/covid-infections-found-in-u-s-in-2019-weeks-before-china-cases

Science

American study finds signs of coronavirus in US before China outbreak

US CDC says blood samples taken in nine states before cases were reported in Wuhan tested positive for antibodies for the pathogen
Results indicate that infections might have happened in the western US earlier than previously thought, scientists say

Linda Lew Published: 11:00pm, 1 Dec, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3112160/american-study-finds-signs-coronavirus-us-china-outbreak

Prognosis

Medical Workers, Long-Term Care Get Nod for First Covid Shot

By Anna Edney, Angelica LaVito, and John Tozzi December 1, 2020, 5:27 PM EST Updated on December 1, 2020, 5:57 PM EST

U.S. CDC advisers recommend who should get initial vaccines
Advisers don’t have last word; CDC chief, states will weigh in

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/medical-workers-long-term-care-centers-get-nod-for-first-shots?srnd=premium

Prognosis

Pfizer, BioNTech Seek EU Clearance for Covid-19 Vaccine

U.S. Covid Cases Found as Early as December 2019, Says Study
Pence Says Covid Vaccine Distribution Could Begin Mid-December
Top Trump Coronavirus Adviser Scott Atlas Resigns His Post

Moderna to Seek Emergency F.D.A. Approval for Vaccine

If authorization is granted, the first shots could be given as early as Dec. 21. Meanwhile, federal officials have urged Americans returning from Thanksgiving travel to reduce unnecessary activity.

Moderna will apply for emergency F.D.A. vaccine approval and says first injections could begin by Dec. 21.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/30/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Moderna to ask FDA to greenlight its vaccine

The milestone brings the United States closer to two vaccines before year’s end. Experts anticipate there will be enough doses to inoculate 20 million people this year between Moderna’s vaccine and another from Pfizer and the German firm BioNTech.By Carolyn Y. Johnson

Prognosis

Moderna Plans to Seek U.S., EU Clearance for Covid Vaccine

Swedish Government Says Vaccine Won’t Make Pandemic Go Away: DN

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-30/moderna-plans-to-seek-u-s-eu-clearance-for-covid-19-vaccine?srnd=premium

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World Updated: November 23, 2020, 7:25 AM EST

Mass vaccinations against covid-19 will be ‘mind-blowing’ challenge for Alabama and other poor, rural states

By Isaac Stanley-Becker

San Francisco Setting New Covid Curbs, Faces ‘Dangerous’ Period

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-29/san-francisco-setting-new-covid-curbs-faces-dangerous-period

Health & Environment

Hong Kong fourth wave: schools to close until after Christmas holidays as city confirms 115 new Covid-19 cases

Citywide suspension of face-to-face classes takes effect from Wednesday and into the new year
Among Sunday’s new cases, 62 relate to dance cluster, 24 have unknown infection sources

Victor Ting , Chan Ho-him and Phila Siu

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3111806/hong-kong-facing-more-100-new-covid-19-cases

Prognosis

Covid Drugs From Lilly, Regeneron Raise Access, Timing Concerns

By Emma Court and Riley GriffinNovember 28, 2020, 7:30 AM EST

Doses are severely limited as U.S. logs record infections
Antibody therapies aimed at keeping mild cases from worsening

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-28/covid-drugs-from-lilly-regeneron-raise-access-timing-concerns?srnd=premium

Covid Overload: U.S. Hospitals Are Stretched Way Too Thin

As the coronavirus pandemic surges across the country, hospitals are facing a crisis-level shortage of beds and staff to provide adequate care for patients.

By Reed Abelson Nov. 27, 2020 Updated 1:49 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/27/health/covid-hospitals-overload.html

The Virus Won’t Stop Evolving When the Vaccine Arrives

Health Care Workers Fighting Covid Are on the Verge of Collapse

America Failed at COVID-19, but the Economy’s Okay. Why?

The U.S. entered the coronavirus recession with a few structural advantages. Its success may not last for long.

6:00 AM ET Annie Lowrey Staff writer at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/america-failed-covid-economys-ok-why/617223/

HEALTH

Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways

States are likely to report fewer coronavirus cases, but not because things are getting better.

JOANNA PEARLSTEIN AND WHET MOSERNOVEMBER 26, 2020 HEALTH

Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways

States are likely to report fewer coronavirus cases, but not because things are getting better.

JOANNA PEARLSTEIN AND WHET MOSER NOVEMBER 26, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/thanksgiving-makes-covid-19-data-weird/617226/

Prognosis

AstraZeneca Faces More Vaccine Questions After Manufacturing Error

Swedes Lose Faith in ‘Herd Immunity’ Strategy With Virus Rampant
Covid Vaccine Rush in China Raises Fears of Booming Black Market
Global Covid-19 Infections Top 60 Million

U.S. virus deaths reach ominous levels unseen since early in the pandemic

By Matt Zapotosky and Jacqueline Dupree

Cases are skyrocketing again in cities, in some areas even harder than during previous peaks

By Brittany Shammas, Mark Guarino and Jacqueline Dupree

Trump touts treatments as lifesavers. Regular people find them harder to get.

By Laurie McGinley and Josh Dawsey

Head of USAID tests positive

Stephen Roach

Despite coronavirus vaccine hope, US must brace itself for a winter of despair

Vaccination is unlikely to bring about so-called herd immunity until mid-2021. For a vulnerable US economy entering lockdown again, the case for a double-dip recession is compelling

Stephen Roach Published: 4:15am, 26 Nov, 2020

Servers deliver food to a table at a pop-up restaurant set up in Times Square in New York on October 23. Consumer spending accounts for 68 per cent of the US economy. But with Covid-19 still raging, services consumption – restaurant dining, in-person shopping, travel – is unlikely to recover soon. Photo: Reuters

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3111296/despite-coronavirus-vaccine-hope-us-must-brace-itself-winter

Health

Coronavirus cases are skyrocketing again in cities

Rural areas have been hardest hit this fall, but cities are now seeing dramatic increases in cases

By Brittany Shammas, Mark Guarino and Jacqueline Dupree

November 26, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/26/coronavirus-cases-cities/

United States & Canada

Global coronavirus cases surge past 60 million

The United States records 200,000 new cases and more than 2,400 deaths in its latest daily count
Rising cases have seen countries around the world impose new restrictions in recent weeks

Agence France-Presse Published: 2:18am, 26 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3111393/worldwide-coronavirus-cases-surge-past-60-million

Virus Surge, Once in the Nation’s Middle, Gains Steam All Around

With cases and deaths rising fast, scientists say they worry about the virus’s course in the United States as Thanksgiving celebrations and cold weather arrive.

By Manny Fernandez, Campbell Robertson, Mitch Smith and Will Wright

Nov. 25, 2020Updated 3:57 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/25/us/covid-united-states-spread.html

Access to these updates is free

U.S. reports highest daily death toll since May

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Rick Noack, Hamza Shaban, Paulina Villegas, Adam Taylor and Kim Bellware November 25, 2020 at 8:57 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/25/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

National

Nearly 2,100 died of covid-19 in U.S. on Tuesday, deadliest day since early summer

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Jennifer Hassan, Rick Noack, Derek Hawkins, Paulina Firozi, Hamza Shaban, Siobhán O'Grady, Reis Thebault, Ruby Mellen and Lena H. Sun November 24, 2020 at 11:51 p.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/24/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

U.S. Sets Record of Two Million New Virus Cases in Two Weeks

As Cases Overwhelm the U.S., Officials Give Up on Contact Tracing

Health officials are acknowledging that contact tracing can no longer be expected to contain the virus’s spread. Here’s the latest.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/25/us/coronavirus-cases-rising.html

In race for coronavirus vaccine, Russia turns to disinformation

Kremlin-backed media outlets have criticized Western drugs while promoting Russia’s rival treatment.

BY MARK SCOTT November 19, 2020 3:05 pm

https://www.politico.eu/article/covid-vaccine-disinformation-russia/amp/

Track Covid Cases in Places Important to You

By The New York Times Updated November 25, 2020, 7:43 A.M. E.T.

Build your own dashboard to track the coronavirus in places across the United States.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-cases-deaths-tracker.html

Prognosis

Astra-Oxford Vaccine Found Effective in Preventing Covid

By Suzi Ring and Naomi Kresge November 23, 2020, 2:08 AM EST Updated on November 23, 2020, 11:12 AM EST

One regimen shows 90% efficacy, the other less protection
Data follow positive Moderna, Pfizer vaccine trial results

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-23/astra-oxford-vaccine-prevents-average-of-70-of-covid-cases

Prognosis

Most Infected U.S. County to Shut Down Restaurants, Again

By Linus Chua November 22, 2020, 4:25 AM EST Updated on November 23, 2020, 1:24 AM EST

Restrictions will start on the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday
California governor to quarantine after children’s exposure https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/most-infected-u-s-county-may-shut-down-restaurants-again

AstraZeneca vaccine up to 90% effective and easily transportable, company says

By William Booth and Antonia Noori Farzan

Podcast: AstraZeneca's vaccine might prove more helpful

AstraZeneca and Oxford University Say Their Vaccine Is ‘Highly Effective’

The coronavirus vaccine candidate was up to 90 percent effective, said the drugmaker, which became the third this month to report promising results. At the same time, the virus is causing a record number of hospitalizations in the U.S.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/23/world/covid-19-coronavirus

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/business/astrazeneca-oxford-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Huntington Beach COVID 'Curfew Breakers' Rally to Protest Stay-at-Home Orders

BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 11/22/20 AT 4:31 AM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/huntington-beach-covid-curfew-breakers-protest-1549291

Anti-Lockdown Protesters Burn Masks in Manhattan as New York Daily COVID Cases Highest Since April

BY SOO KIM ON 11/23/20 AT 7:16 AM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/anti-lockdown-protesters-burn-masks-manhattan-new-york-covid-cases-highest-1549440

Asia / Southeast Asia

Coronavirus: Malaysia will close Top Glove factories and screen workers; Indonesia hits 500,000 cases

Top Glove is the world’s largest manufacturer of latex gloves. A total of 28 factories will be closed in stages after 1,889 workers tested positive for the virus
Meanwhile, Australia reopened the border between Victoria and New South Wales, its two most populous states

Reuters Published: 6:45pm, 23 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/3111040/coronavirus-malaysia-will-close-top-glove-factories-and

Shanghai airport Covid scare sparks 'chaotic' mass testing

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55039627

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

As U.S. coronavirus cases soar toward 200,000 a day, holiday travel is surging

The CDC cautioned Thursday against traveling for Thanksgiving. But more than 1 million people still passed through the country’s airports Friday.

By Derek Hawkins and Hannah Knowles

CDC recommends preflight testing for those planning to fly internationally

Regeneron Gets Emergency U.S. Clearance for Covid-19 Therapy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-22/regeneron-gets-emergency-u-s-clearance-for-covid-19-therapy

FDA NEWS RELEASE

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Announces Advisory Committee Meeting to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

November 20, 2020

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has scheduled a meeting of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) on Dec. 10 to discuss the request for emergency use authorization (EUA) of a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer, Inc. in partnership with BioNTech Manufacturing GmbH.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-fda-announces-advisory-committee-meeting-discuss-covid-19-vaccine?source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

FDA sets Dec. 10 meeting to weigh Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine authorization

Nov. 20, 2020 5:21 PM ET Pfizer Inc. (PFE) By: Jason Aycock, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3638503-fda-sets-dec-10-meeting-to-weigh-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-authorization

NOVEMBER 20, 20209:21 AMUPDATED 2 DAYS AGO

Israel nears deal for AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine

By Reuters Staff TEL AVIV (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-astrazeneca-israel/israel-nears-deal-for-astrazenecas-covid-19-vaccine-idUSKBN2801SQ?=undefined&il=undefined&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link#61;0

Prognosis

California Hits Record; Toronto Locks Down Again: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsNovember 19, 2020, 6:49 PM EST Updated on November 20, 2020, 5:05 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-19/dc-cases-rise-texas-sees-new-case-record-virus-update?srnd=premium

California Reports Record 15,442 New Coronavirus Cases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-21/california-reports-record-15-442-new-coronavirus-cases?srnd=premium

How much is 250,000 deaths? Enough to empty wide swaths of the country.

A quarter-million people in the United States have died of covid-19, more than the population of most counties. Over 11 million confirmed cases have been reported, more than the combined population of multiple states.By Lauren Tierney and Tim Meko

Pfizer and BioNTech apply for regulatory clearance of their coronavirus vaccine

The companies announced plans to file for regulatory clearance, a signal that a powerful tool to help control the pandemic could begin to be available within weeks.

Health

More than 3 million people in U.S. estimated to be contagious with the coronavirus

By Joel Achenbach November 18, 2020 at 8:36 a.m. EST

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/covid-3-milliion-plus-infected/2020/11/18/d9f079a8-2849-11eb-8fa2-06e7cbb145c0_story.html

NYC Schools to Close as Virus Rate Reaches 3% Trigger Point

New York MTA Warns of 40% Subway Cut, Shedding 9,300 Jobs
Covid Ravaging Long-Term Care Centers at Fastest Pace Since May
New Jersey Ventilator Use Surges: Virus Update

Pfizer, BioNTech Plan Filing as Vaccine Proves 95% Effective

By Robert Langreth November 18, 2020, 6:45 AM EST Updated on November 18, 2020, 6:49 AM EST

Application for U.S. emergency authorization expected in days
Shot staved off severe cases and also worked in older people

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-18/pfizer-biontech-plan-filing-as-vaccine-proves-95-effective?srnd=premium

New Pfizer Results: Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and 95% Effective

The company said it planned to apply for emergency approval from the Food and Drug Administration “within days.”

By Katie Thomas Nov. 18, 2020, 6:45 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/health/pfizer-covid-vaccine.html

NOVEMBER 17, 20206:34 PM UPDATED 5 HOURS AGO

Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine induces quick immune response: study

By Miyoung Kim, Roxanne Liu SINGAPORE/BEIJING (Reuters) -

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sinovac/sinovacs-covid-19-vaccine-induces-quick-immune-response-study-idUSKBN27X354?il=0&source=content_type%3Areact%7Cfirst_level_url%3Anews%7Csection%3Amain_content%7Cbutton%3Abody_link

MORTALITY ANALYSES - Johns Hopkins University & Medicine.

Mortality in the most affected countries

For the twenty countries currently most affected by COVID-19 worldwide, the bars in the chart below show the number of deaths either per 100 confirmed cases (observed case-fatality ratio) or per 100,000 population (this represents a country’s general population, with both confirmed cases and healthy people). Countries at the top of this figure have the most deaths proportionally to their COVID-19 cases or population, not necessarily the most deaths overall.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality

America Locks Down From Atlantic to Pacific as Covid Rages

French Restaurants, Stadiums to Stay Shut Over Holiday Season
Moderna Vaccine Offers Possible Antidote to Deep-Freeze Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-17/america-locks-down-from-atlantic-to-pacific-with-covid-raging?srnd=premium

China / Science

Coronavirus: the cold, hard challenge of delivering vaccines

Doses of two leading candidates in the race to develop a Covid-19 vaccine must be stored in low temperatures in the longer term
It’s a big issue in countries with cold-chain infrastructure – let alone in places beyond those supply lines

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 9:30pm, 17 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3110227/coronavirus-cold-hard-challenge-delivering-vaccines

Science

Coronavirus hunters pick up another piece of the trail in Italy

New research suggests the pathogen infected people across the country months before it was detected in China
Antibodies specific to the coronavirus were found in blood samples from lung cancer screening tests going back to September last year

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 5:00am, 17 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3110088/covid-19-virus-hunters-pick-another-piece-trail-italy

Prognosis

Covid Surge Quickens Across Entire U.S., Leaving No State Safe

The count of new cases is edging closer to 200,000 each day.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/no-state-is-safe-with-covid-pandemic-accelerating-everywhere?srnd=premium

World

Moderna Vaccine Found Highly Effective at Preventing Covid

By Robert Langreth November 16, 2020, 6:58 AM EST Updated on November 16, 2020, 7:21 AM EST

Vaccine has 94.5% efficacy in an analysis of late-stage trial
Interim results suggest vaccine may also block severe cases

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-16/moderna-vaccine-is-found-highly-effective-at-preventing-covid-19?srnd=premium

Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Meets its Primary Efficacy Endpoint in the First Interim Analysis of the Phase 3 COVE Study

November 16, 2020 at 6:56 AM ESTPDF Version

First interim analysis included 95 participants with confirmed cases of COVID-19

Phase 3 study met statistical criteria with a vaccine efficacy of 94.5% (p <0.0001)

Moderna intends to submit for an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) with U.S. FDA in the coming weeks and expects the EUA to be based on the final analysis of 151 cases and a median follow-up of more than 2 months

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 2020-- Moderna, Inc. (Nasdaq: MRNA)

https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/modernas-covid-19-vaccine-candidate-meets-its-primary-efficacy

Johnson & Johnson and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Expand Agreement to Support Next Phase of COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Research and Development

Sat November 14, 2020 9:34 AM|PR Newswire|About: JNJ NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Nov. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18086029-johnson-johnson-and-u-s-department-of-health-human-services-expand-agreement-to-support-next

https://www.jnj.com/coronavirus

Prognosis

U.S. Tops 11 Million as Cases Surge Coast to Coast: Virus Update

Bloomberg News November 15, 2020, 8:29 AM EST Updated on November 15, 2020, 5:20 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-15/austria-to-test-everyone-eu-official-quarantined-virus-update?srnd=premium

Health & Environment

Why the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is no cure for all coronavirus ills

Amid the excitement, questions remain over virus mutations, people refusing to take it and the problem of storing it at -80 degrees
In short, given the general public may face a wait of up to year before getting a shot, it’s worth thinking twice before booking that plane ticket

John Power Published: 10:00am, 15 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3109797/why-pfizer-biontech-vaccine-no-cure-all-coronavirus

Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274

https://www.bbc.com/news/coronavirus

WORLD

Coronavirus: Italy reaches new record high of nearly 41,000 daily cases

By Shea Lawrence & Lauren Chadwick with AP • last updated: 13/11/2020

https://www.euronews.com/2020/11/13/croatia-estonia-georgia-and-uk-all-reported-record-daily-covid-19-case-counts-on-thursday

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Indian demand for COVID-19 drug remdesivir rising sharply - Cipla

By Anuron Kumar Mitra BENGALURU (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-india-cipla-idUSKBN27P0TX

novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 病毒：新型冠状病毒 2019-nCoV

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: November 04, 2020, 23:57 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases: 48,387,339 view by country Deaths: 1,229,542 Recovered: 34,633,159

The U.S. Surpasses 11 Million Cases, With Blacks and Latinos Hit Disproportionately

“The health care system is breaking, literally breaking,” says a Biden adviser. Doctors across the U.S. plead with the public to be more careful.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/15/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Prognosis

When Will Covid Be Defeated? You’ll Need Patience: Coronavirus Q&A

By James Paton November 12, 2020, 6:39 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-12/will-the-covid-19-pandemic-be-over-soon-coronavirus-q-a?srnd=premium

IDEAS

COVID-19 Is Out of Control. What Can We Do?

We need a one-two punch to knock the virus down and then keep it down.

6:30 AM ET Thomas R. Frieden Former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/11/covid-19-is-out-of-control-what-can-we-do/617097/

HEALTH

‘No One Is Listening to Us’

More people than ever are hospitalized with COVID-19. Health-care workers can’t go on like this.

ED YONG 7:00 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/11/third-surge-breaking-healthcare-workers/617091/

Prognosis

NYC’s Virus Positivity Nears Trigger for Closing School System

By Stacie Sherman November 13, 2020, 9:45 AM EST Updated on November 13, 2020, 10:02 AM EST

Mayor has said in-class learning would halt if rate reached 3%
Seven-day positivity average for the city has climbed to 2.83%

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-13/nyc-inches-closer-to-schools-closing-as-virus-positivity-climbs?srnd=premium

Virus Cases Reach New Highs in U.S., Prompting Talk of More Lockdowns

Daily cases soar above 160,000, just eight days after the country had its first 100,000-case day. South Korea tries to help delivery couriers, whose workloads have intensified during the pandemic.

Here’s what you need to know:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/13/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?

Published1 hour ago Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274

WHO-backed probes move forward to try to shed light on early days of coronavirus

Two missions have been in the works since May, and pressure is mounting for insight into how the virus emerged
They have a different focus, but both inquiries will dig into a contentious period – the start of the outbreak

Simone McCarthy Published: 1:30am, 13 Nov, 2020

A security guard stands outside the Huanan market in Wuhan in January. A WHO-led scientific mission will look into the wild animal trade at the market, where a number of the first known patients worked and shopped. Photo: AFP

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3109635/who-backed-probes-move-forward-try-shed-light-early-days

NOVEMBER 12, 20206:57 AM UPDATED 6 HOURS AGO

Misinformation could prompt people to turn against COVID-19 vaccines: study

By Kate Kelland LONDON (Reuters) -

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-confidence/misinformation-could-prompt-people-to-turn-against-covid-19-vaccines-study-idUSKBN27S1NW

Prognosis Chicago Advises to Stay at Home; N.Y. Cases Spike: Virus Update updated 51 minutes ago

The pandemic breaks U.S. records for hospitalizations and cases as states and cities tighten restrictions.

U.S. Breaks Daily Virus and Hospitalization Records

New York schools are likely to close again. Britain has now reported more than 50,000 virus deaths.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/12/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates?type=styln-live-updates&label=virus&index=0#the-pandemic-breaks-us-records-for-hospitalizations-and-cases-as-states-and-cities-tighten-restrictions

Prognosis

This Covid Surge Is America’s Longest—and It’s Getting Longer

By Jonathan Levin November 11, 2020, 1:37 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-11/this-covid-surge-is-america-s-longest-and-it-s-getting-longer?srnd=coronavirus

NOVEMBER 11, 20209:57 AMUPDATED 17 HOURS AGO

Brazil says Chinese vaccine trial can resume after suspension

By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sinovac/brazil-says-chinese-vaccine-trial-can-resume-after-suspension-idUSKBN27R249?source=news_body_link

Coronavirus: US hospital admissions reach record high as cases surge

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54906483

Prognosis N.Y. Restaurants Get Curfew; U.K. Deaths at 50,000: Virus Update

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/fauci-sees-wide-u-s-vaccine-availability-by-april-virus-update?srnd=premium

The Surging Coronavirus Finds a Federal Leadership Vacuum

The winter wave has been anticipated for months. Now that it’s here, health officials worry once again about strategy and supplies.

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Noah Weiland, Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew Jacobs

Nov. 11, 2020 Updated 9:43 a.m. ET WASHINGTON

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/11/us/politics/coronavirus-surge-trump.html

Prognosis

Texas Cases Top 1 Million; U.S. Hospitalizations: Virus Update

The developer of Russia’s flagship vaccine says it shows a 92% efficacy rate in preventing infections.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/fauci-sees-wide-u-s-vaccine-availability-by-april-virus-update?srnd=premium

WORLD

COVID-19 Patients Receive Oxygen in Cars in Italy as Hospitals Overwhelmed

BY BASIT MAHMOOD ON 11/11/20 AT 5:15 AM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-19-italy-intensive-care-1546577?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1605100236567

NEWS

U.S. COVID Hospitalizations at Highest Ever as Over 60,000 Americans in Hospital Beds Currently

BY SOO KIM ON 11/10/20 AT 7:50 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-us-covid-19-hospitalizations-record-highest-ever-1546339?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1605068310942

Covid Roars Back in U.S. Cities After Months as a Rural Problem

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-10/covid-roars-back-in-u-s-cities-after-months-as-a-rural-problem?srnd=premium

Lilly CEO Sees Supply Squeeze for New Antibody Drug as Covid-19 Cases Surge

U.S. November Cases Top 1 Million; U.K. Moonshot: Virus Update

U.S. Hospitalizations Top 61,000, a Record

U.S. health officials are detailing a possible time for treatments and vaccines. Italy is sealing off more parts of the country as the number of new coronavirus cases rises.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/10/world/covid-19-coronavirus-live-updates

Pfizer CEO Dismisses Accusations that Vaccine Report Timed for After Election: 'We Announced It the Moment We Learned About It'

BY JASON LEMON ON 11/9/20 AT 5:50 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/pfizer-ceo-dismisses-accusations-that-vaccine-report-timed-after-election-we-announced-it-1546161?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1604978995715

Biden Warns of ‘Dark Winter’ Ahead With Covid, Urges Mask-Wearing

By Tyler Pager November 9, 2020, 5:00 AM EST Updated on November 9, 2020, 1:06 PM EST

President-elect asks everyone to wear masks to avoid infection
Emphasis on scientists is intended to show contrast with Trump

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-09/biden-s-covid-task-force-to-play-key-role-in-pandemic-response?srnd=premium

Business

U.S. Cases Top 10 Million; New Surge in California: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsNovember 8, 2020, 6:06 PM EST Updated on November 9, 2020, 4:53 PM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-08/worldwide-cases-pass-50-million-with-u-s-surging-virus-update

N.Y.C. Dangerously Close to Second Wave, Mayor Says, as New Rules Loom

The spike in virus cases threatens the city’s recovery and could mean “a lot more restrictions,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/nyregion/nyc-virus-spike.html

NOVEMBER 9, 20202:15 PM UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

Pfizer, BioNTech initial vaccine results impress, but scientists remain cautious

By Julie Steenhuysen, Kate Kelland CHICAGO/LONDON (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccines-pfizer-sc/pfizer-biontech-initial-vaccine-results-impress-but-scientists-remain-cautious-idUSKBN27P2OK

Parts of Italy Will Lock Down Again as Europe Tries to Halt Second Wave

England will also begin a second shutdown. The pandemic loomed over the U.S. election, where voters who saw the virus as a top issue favored Biden.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/04/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

United States Records Its Worst Week Yet for Virus Cases

By Lauren Leatherby Oct. 30, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/us/us-covid-case-record.html

Business

U.S. Covid Case Growth Is Worse Than Morgan Stanley Bear Model

By Bailey Lipschultz November 3, 2020, 10:56 AM EST

Testing positivity rate nearing 20% in many states, bank says
Local governments may need to find ways to slow virus’s spread

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-03/u-s-covid-case-growth-is-worse-than-morgan-stanley-bear-model?srnd=premium

Pregnant Women Face Increased Risks From Covid-19

If symptomatic, they were more likely to develop complications and die than nonpregnant women with symptoms.

By Roni Caryn Rabin Published Nov. 2, 2020

Updated Nov. 3, 2020, 1:00 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/health/Covid-pregnancy-health-risks.html

Coronavirus: Sweden brings in rule of eight for diners amid spike in infections

Coronavirus pandemic

Sweden has limited to eight per table the number of people sitting together in cafes and restaurants, amid a sharp rise in coronavirus infections.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54797112

Prognosis

England Deaths Climb; Pressure on French Hospitals: Virus Update

Bloomberg News November 2, 2020, 6:44 PM EST Updated on November 3, 2020, 6:05 AM EST

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-02/cases-up-in-key-election-states-new-france-record-virus-update?srnd=premium

Birx Warns White House of New ‘Deadly Phase’ of Pandemic

Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus coordinator, bluntly urged officials in a private memo to pursue a more aggressive approach, directly contradicting President Trump

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/03/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

As the Virus Rages, Some Are Convinced It’s Too Late to Stop It

Coronavirus case counts are at record highs, yet many in states like Idaho are embracing a let-it-ride approach. One county with a hospital nearing capacity repealed its mask mandate.

By Mike Baker Nov. 2, 2020 Updated 8:34 a.m. ET COEUR d’ALENE, Idaho

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/02/us/coronavirus-control.html

Science

Coronavirus: WHO and Chinese experts launch origins mission – online

Virtual meeting an important first step in politically charged environment, health agency official says
But still no date released for investigation on the ground in Wuhan, where the pathogen was first reported

Simone McCarthy Published: 12:00pm, 2 Nov, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3108020/coronavirus-who-and-chinese-experts-launch-origins-mission

Coronavirus: Germany restricts social life in 'lockdown light'

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54778345

Prognosis

England Virus Lockdown May Be Extended Beyond December

By Lucy Meakin and David Goodman November 1, 2020, 4:56 AM EST Updated on November 1, 2020, 11:33 AM EST

Gove notes risk to economy, confidence if hospitals swamped
Non-essential stores, restaurants set to close from Nov. 5

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-11-01/england-virus-lockdown-could-yet-be-extended-minister-warns

Prognosis

N.Y. to Require Covid Tests, 3-Day Quarantine for Visitors

By Yueqi Yang October 31, 2020, 12:28 PM EDT Updated on October 31, 2020, 6:16 PM EDT

Rule allows travelers to ‘test out’ of 14-day quarantine
Airports, local health departments to enforce guidelines

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-31/new-york-sets-3-day-quarantine-for-visitors-who-test-negative?srnd=coronavirus

Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Studies Showing Waning Coronavirus Antibodies

Experts say it’s normal for levels of antibodies to drop after clearing an infection, and that they represent just one arm of the immune response against a virus.

By Apoorva Mandavilli Published Oct. 27, 2020Updated Oct. 29, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/health/coronavirus-antibodies-studies.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=892225037&algo=identity&imp_id=668291541

Prognosis

England at Lockdown Risk While U.S. Breaks Records: Virus Update

Bloomberg News October 30, 2020, 6:59 PM EDT Updated on October 31, 2020, 10:44 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/u-s-lifts-cruise-ship-ban-deaths-in-france-surge-virus-update?srnd=premium

National

At least 229,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.

At least 9,035,000 cases have been reported.

Data as of October 30 at 6:20 p.m.

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Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

Updated: October 30, 2020, 1:24 PM EDT

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THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

An outbreak of a new strain of coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China. It has since spread across the world and the World Health Organization has declared a global pandemic. Seeking to distinguish the virus from the disease it causes, the virus has been named SARS-CoV-2 and the disease Covid-19.

Last updated: 30 Oct, 11:25PM

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CONFIRMED CORONAVIRUS CASES

Worldwide total cases 45,053,643 total deaths 1,181,582 total recovered 30,315,605

Source: Johns Hopkins University, WHO and health authorities Last updated: 30 Oct, 7:08AM

https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus

last updated 30 Oct 2020 7:08AM

Covid-19 in numbers

Total Deaths Total Deaths per 100,000 people

United States 228675 69.09

Brazil 158969 74.99

United Kingdom 46045 67.91

Italy 38122 63.54

France 36058 55.47

Spain 35639 77.48

Russia 27462 18.82

Mainland China 4634 00.32

Hong Kong 105 00.14

Chart: SCMP Source: Johns Hopkins University, WHO and health authorities

https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus

World / United States & Canada

Coronavirus: an American dies every 107 seconds as US tops records

United States faces difficult months as winter approaches
Country has world’s highest case tally and death toll

Tribune News Service Published: 10:53am, 30 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3107715/coronavirus-american-dies-every-107-seconds-us

US & Canada

Coronavirus: US sees record-high daily Covid numbers as election nears

The US saw a record high of 91,000 new Covid-19 cases reported on Thursday, with spikes in dozens of states just days before the presidential election.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-54751759

Health

How epidemics like covid-19 end (and how to end them faster)

A coronavirus causing a disease called covid-19 has infected more than 200,000 people since it was first reported in late 2019. To predict how big the epidemic could get, researchers are working to determine how contagious the virus is.

By Joe Fox, Youjin Shin and Armand Emamdjomeh Feb. 19, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/health/coronavirus-how-epidemics-spread-and-end/?tid=graphics-story

China / Science

Explainer | How Covid-19 vaccines can win approval from medical regulators

Drug makers around the world are racing to get their products to market condensing a process that typically takes years down to a matter of months
While products can be cleared for emergency use, regulatory bodies in China and the US will want to see an efficacy rate of at least 50 per cent

Simone McCarthy Published: 9:00pm, 30 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3107812/how-covid-19-vaccines-can-win-approval-medical-regulators

Masks Work. Really. We’ll Show You How.

By Or Fleisher, Gabriel Gianordoli, Yuliya Parshina-Kottas, Karthik Patanjali, Miles Peyton and Bedel SagetOct. 30, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-mask-covid-particles-ul.html

UArizona Health Sciences Study Shows SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies Provide Lasting Immunity

Oct 12, 2020 TUCSON, Ariz.

https://uahs.arizona.edu/news/uarizona-health-sciences-study-shows-sars-cov-2-antibodies-provide-lasting-immunity

Explainer | Coronavirus: as infectious strain D614G spreads in Malaysia and Philippines, should we be worried?

The strain is said to be ‘10 times as likely to infect other individuals’ as the strain reported in Wuhan last December
While studies suggest D614G is more infectious, experts say it is not deadlier and vaccines will still remain effective against this strain

Today Online Published: 1:30pm, 18 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/3097777/coronavirus-infectious-strain-d614g-spreads-malaysia-and

Coronavirus Cases

Covid Ravages Rural America, Sweeping Through Montana’s Plains

Big Horn County’s tiny clinics strain under the surge

Jonathan Levin and Lynn Donaldson October 30, 2020, 7:00 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-30/covid-ravages-rural-america-sweeping-through-montana-s-plains?srnd=coronavirus

HEALTH

Trump Was Criticized for His COVID Leadership, but Now Europe Is Faring Much Worse

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 10/30/20 AT 5:51 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-criticized-covid-leadership-europe-faring-much-worse-1543426?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1604061375198

U.S.

Most Americans Call Trump's Coronavirus Pandemic Response 'Terrible' or 'Bad': Poll

BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 10/29/20 AT 9:08 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/most-americans-call-trumps-coronavirus-pandemic-response-terrible-bad-poll-1543390?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1604025560351

HEALTH

Brazilian Doctor Becomes Latest Person to Get Covid Twice, With Second Case Worse Than First

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 10/29/20 AT 8:02 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/brazilian-doctor-covid-twice-second-worse-first-1543163?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1604010175385

Germany Aims to Start Coronavirus Vaccination This Year

Shots could be delivered within hours of a vaccine’s approval, which would make Germany one of the first Western countries to distribute a proven jab

By Bojan Pancevski Oct. 29, 2020 12:42 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/germany-aims-to-start-coronavirus-vaccination-this-year-11603989740?source=news_body_link

European Hospitals Are Filling at an Alarming Pace

The virus threatens to bring Europe’s ailing health care systems to the brink of collapse. In the United States, the pandemic has been linked to an increase in violence.

U.S. economic growth hit a quarterly record, but a shortfall remains.

Here’s what you need to know:

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/29/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Prognosis

Tracking Covid-19 Hospitalizations in the U.S.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/covid-19-hospitalizations-us/?srnd=premium

HEALTH

Siberian Virologist Reinfects Himself With Coronavirus in Experiment to Test Immunity

BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 10/29/20 AT 6:50 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/siberia-virologist-reinfection-covid-antibodies-1543144?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603974649893

Inside Operation Warp Speed’s $18 Billion Sprint for a Vaccine

It’s expensive, secretive, and—if the president stays out of the way—our best hope of getting out of this pandemic.

By Stephanie Baker and Cynthia Koons

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-29/inside-operation-warp-speed-s-18-billion-sprint-for-a-vaccine?srnd=premium

WORLD

France to Enter Nationwide Lockdown Due to Rising COVID-19 Infections, 5 Months After First Lockdown Restrictions Lifted

BY MEGHAN ROOS ON 10/28/20 AT 4:27 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/france-enter-nationwide-lockdown-due-rising-covid-19-infections-5-months-after-first-lockdown-1543025?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603920758326

HEALTH

Vaccine Chaos Is Looming

The COVID-19 vaccines furthest along in clinical trials are the fastest to make, but they are also the hardest to deploy.

SARAH ZHANG SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/covid-19-most-complicated-vaccine-campaign-ever/616521/

HEALTH

America Is About to Choose How Bad the Pandemic Will Get

If Donald Trump is reelected, he will continue to downplay the threat of the coronavirus, and more Americans will fall ill.

ED YONG 7:00 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/10/coronavirus-election/616884/

HEALTH

The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning

Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.

ALEXIS C. MADRIGALROBINSON MEYER SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/how-many-people-america-testing-coronavirus/616249/

As Coronavirus Cases Surge, Europe Weighs Nationwide Lockdowns

France and Germany are expected to announce broader measures amid rising cases. U.S. hospitals are straining under an influx of virus patients. Here’s the latest.

N.J.’s Largest City Imposes New Closures as Virus Cases Surge

The state began its first new shutdown orders since March on Tuesday night, requiring all nonessential businesses in Newark to close indoor operations by 8 p.m.

The Lockdown That Felt Like an Eternity Has Finally Ended

Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, emerged from its 111-day hibernation with a mix of euphoria and caution.

Politics

Cuomo Seeks to Keep 95% of U.S. Out of New York as Virus Rages

By Keshia Clukey October 27, 2020, 4:08 PM EDT

New York adds California to list of states on quarantine order
Governor tries to limit increase in cases after first recovery

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/cuomo-seeks-to-keep-95-of-u-s-out-of-new-york-as-virus-rages

World

Boris Johnson Braces for England Lockdown as Coronavirus Cases Surge

By Emily Ashton October 28, 2020, 7:49 AM EDT

New modeling shows U.K. on course for prolonged second peak
Advisers warn toughest restrictions may be needed nationwide

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-28/johnson-braces-for-england-lockdown-as-coronavirus-cases-surge?srnd=coronavirus

The Coronavirus Outbreak

Updated October 27, 2020

Philly considering new restrictions as cases now exceed the city’s ability to track them; as Pa. cases spike, another uptick at Penn State

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/

WORLD

Scientists Push For Christmas Lockdown as U.K. COVID Death Toll Spikes

BY ZOE DREWETT ON 10/28/20 AT 6:03 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/scientists-push-christmas-lockdown-uk-covid-death-toll-spikes-1542759?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603887097120

Prognosis

Covid-19 Hospitalizations Leap in Most States, With Cases Rising

By Jonathan Levin October 27, 2020, 12:50 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-27/covid-19-hospitalizations-leap-in-most-states-with-cases-rising?srnd=premium

El Paso orders a curfew to stem a coronavirus surge as its hospitals overflow.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/26/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#el-paso-orders-a-curfew-to-stem-a-coronavirus-surge-as-its-hospitals-overflow

Vaccine Results Before U.S. Election Day All but Ruled Out, Pfizer Indicates

The country has averaged at least 71,000 new coronavirus cases a day over the past week, the most in any seven-day stretch of the pandemic.

A virus cluster erupts in the Arkansas Legislature and the state surgeon general’s family.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/27/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

COVID-19 cases in Philadelphia have exceeded the city’s ability to track them; Pa. continues to report record high case numbers

https://www.inquirer.com/health/coronavirus/live/covid-coronavirus-cases-pa-philadelphia-nj-de-updates-testing-news-hospital-20201027.html

HEALTH

COVID Can Age the Brain by a Decade, Study Suggests

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 10/27/20 AT 10:41 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-age-brain-decade-study-1542374

Science

Coronavirus means less sex – for Chinese, Americans, British, Turkish

Survey in Turkey shows pattern consistent with findings in China, US and Britain: people are having sex less often and fewer partners. Results suggest people are afraid of spreading Covid-19 during sex, researchers say

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 12:00am, 28 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3107296/coronavirus-means-less-sex-chinese-americans-british-turkish

Science

Coronavirus: co-infection with influenza can speed up replication of pathogen that causes Covid-19, study says

Modifications to the structure of human cells caused by a flu bug can make it easier for the coronavirus to invade them, Chinese researchers say
Upcoming flu season presents a ‘potentially severe threat to public health’, they say

Stephen Chen

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3106920/coronavirus-co-infection-influenza-can-speed-replication

Europe

Coronavirus: Russia starts making second Covid-19 vaccine as cases rise

Output of the second vaccine, which has yet to complete trials, will ramp up by the end of the year, says the head of Russia’s public health watchdog
Unlike Sputnik V, Russia’s second vaccine is a mix of short amino-acid chains, called peptides, that induce an immune response

Bloomberg Published: 11:35pm, 27 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3107308/coronavirus-russia-starts-making-second-covid-19-vaccine-cases

Opinion

Josephine Ma

Time for China to align with global practice in counting coronavirus cases

Since February, China’s coronavirus tally of ‘confirmed’ cases has not included positive patients who are asymptomatic or presymptomatic
Data shows that asymptomatic cases make up a significant percentage of the total number of positive patients and they can spread Covid-19

Josephine Ma Published: 8:47pm, 27 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3107297/time-china-align-global-practice-counting-coronavirus-cases

‘It Has Hit Us With a Vengeance’: Virus Surges Again Across the United States

Unlike earlier outbreaks concentrated in the Northeast and South, the virus is simmering at a worrisome level in most regions.

By Sarah Mervosh and Lucy Tompkins

Published Oct. 20, 2020Updated Oct. 21, 2020, 8:34 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/20/us/coronavirus-cases-rise.html

Fauci Says the First Wave of COVID-19 Never Ended in the U.S., Current Spike Is Just an 'Exacerbation'

BY KATHERINE FUNG ON 10/26/20 AT 2:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-says-first-wave-covid-19-never-ended-us-current-spike-just-exacerbation-1542215?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603746325870

Pandemic Fatigue Is Real—And It’s Spreading

Collective exhaustion with coronavirus restrictions has emerged as a formidable adversary for governments

By Stacy Meichtry , Joanna Sugden and Andrew Barnett

Oct. 26, 2020 5:30 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-fatigue-is-realand-its-spreading-11603704601

NEWS

COVID Cases Are Now Rising in These European Countries

BY KATHERINE FUNG ON 10/26/20 AT 10:40 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/covid-cases-are-now-rising-these-european-countries-1542093

Covid-19: China tests entire city of Kashgar in Xinjiang

Coronavirus pandemic

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-54687533

Prognosis

New York and New Jersey Cases at Highest Since May: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 23, 2020, 6:49 PM EDT Updated on October 24, 2020, 5:39 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/u-s-cases-surge-past-70-000-france-tops-record-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Hospitals Are Reaching Their Limits

The country has seen a 40 percent increase in the past month in the number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/26/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Opinion

America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’

In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.

By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Oct. 22, 2020

阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-united-states.html

4 Pence Aides Test Positive for the Coronavirus

Last Updated Oct. 25, 2020, 2:22 a.m. ETOct. 25, 2020Oct. 25, 2020

Six states broke records as the virus surged at an alarming pace. Dr. Anthony Fauci suggested the U.S. might need a national mask mandate.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Prognosis

New York and New Jersey Cases at Highest Since May: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 23, 2020, 6:49 PM EDT Updated on October 24, 2020, 5:39 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/u-s-cases-surge-past-70-000-france-tops-record-virus-update

Coronavirus: Italy shuts cinemas, gyms and pools in Covid fight

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54682222

Covid-19 Live Updates: Harrowing New Surge Rages Across America’s Heartland

The U.S. set a single-day record of more than 85,000 new cases on Friday, less than two weeks before Election Day. Two vaccine trials resumed after pausing for safety concerns.

Europe is also bracing for a dark winter as the virus surges across the continent.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Prognosis

U.S. Breaks Record With More Than 83,000 New Cases: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 23, 2020, 6:49 PM EDT Updated on October 24, 2020, 3:38 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/u-s-cases-surge-past-70-000-france-tops-record-virus-update?srnd=premium

U.S.

'COVID-19 Vaccine Not Yet Available' Pharmacies Tell Customers Who Keep Asking For Treatment

BY EWAN PALMER ON 10/24/20 AT 7:45 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-vaccine-covid-flu-shot-1541872

Prognosis

Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca Trials to Resume, Rejoining Vaccine Race

By Riley Griffin, Robert Langreth, and Suzi Ring October 23, 2020, 4:50 PM EDT Updated on October 23, 2020, 5:16 PM EDT

Two top contenders to restart trials paused after illnesses
Companies in late-stage research as virus spread worsens

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-23/jnj-astrazeneca-trials-to-resume-rejoining-covid-vaccine-race?srnd=premium

Pivotal Studies of Covid-19 Vaccines From AstraZeneca, J&J Resuming

The testing, paused to probe medical events in study subjects, is restarting after investigators didn’t find a link to the shots

By Thomas M. Burton and Peter Loftus Updated Oct. 23, 2020 5:48 pm ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-vaccine-trial-from-astrazeneca-oxford-can-resume-in-u-s-11603476923?mod=hp_lead_pos6&source=news_body_link

PoliticsTrump Hasn’t Met With Virus Task Force in Months, Fauci Says

Trump Ramps Up Rallies, Bucking Health Guidelines as Virus Rages
N.Y. Covid Hospitalizations Top 1,000 for First Time Since June
U.S. Cases Near High-Water Mark as Midwest Surge Creeps East

J&J to resume U.S. part of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial

Published: Oct. 23, 2020 at 4:52 p.m. ETBy

Wallace Witkowski

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/j-j-to-resume-u-s-part-of-covid-19-vaccine-clinical-trial-11603486332?source=news_body_link

Prognosis

Hospitals Across the U.S. Are Crammed With Covid-19 Patients

By Elise YoungOctober 21, 2020, 2:51 PM EDT Updated on October 21, 2020, 3:40 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/hospitals-across-the-u-s-are-crammed-with-covid-19-patients?srnd=premium

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

CDC says the U.S. is now seeing a ‘distressing trend’ in coronavirus outbreak

PUBLISHED WED, OCT 21 20204:31 PM EDT UPDATED Berkeley Lovelace Jr. Noah Higgins-Dunn

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/coronavirus-cdc-says-us-is-seeing-distressing-trend-in-outbreak.html

Prognosis

Resurgence Sweeps Across Europe; U.K. Extends Aid: Virus Update

Bloomberg News October 21, 2020, 6:40 PM EDT Updated on October 22, 2020, 9:09 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-21/cases-surpass-41-million-europe-outbreak-worsens-virus-update?srnd=premium

Opinion

America and the Virus: ‘A Colossal Failure of Leadership’

In its destruction of American lives, treasure and well-being, this pandemic marks the greatest failure of U.S. governance since Vietnam.

By Nicholas Kristof Opinion Columnist Oct. 22, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/coronavirus-united-states.html

Oct 22, 2020 04:32 PM OPINION

Opinion: How to Protect Workers in the Wake of the Pandemic

By Saadia Zahidi

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-10-22/opinion-how-to-protect-workers-in-the-age-of-automation-101617572.html

HEALTH

After Trump Downplayed COVID, Fauci Says 'Totally Nonsense' to Withhold Information to Avoid Alarming People

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 10/22/20 AT 4:58 AM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-downplayed-covid-fauci-totally-nonsense-withhold-information-avoid-alarm-1541230?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603369129573

Prognosis

Gilead Virus Therapy Remdesivir Gains Approval From FDA

By Robert Langreth October 22, 2020, 4:06 PM EDT Updated on October 22, 2020, 4:55 PM EDT

Antiviral medicine becomes first approved drug for Covid-19
Hospital patients who got the drug recovered five days faster

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/gilead-virus-therapy-remdesivir-gains-approval-from-fda?srnd=premium

Covid-19 Live Updates: U.S. Nears Record, With More Than 75,000 Virus Cases

The tally is the second-highest daily total since the pandemic began, as eight states set single-day case records.

Nepal suspends access to Mount Everest after a local virus case is detected.

The U.S. reported its second-highest daily case total since the start of the pandemic.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/23/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

Prognosis

U.S. Cases Surge Past 70,000; Europe Widens Curbs: Virus Update

Bloomberg News October 22, 2020, 6:29 PM EDT Updated on October 23, 2020, 8:23 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-22/illinois-ohio-hit-highs-fda-approves-remdesivir-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Economics

Time to Reset Expectations for World Economy With Virus Untamed

By Enda Curran, Suzi Ring, and Anchalee Worrachate October 25, 2020, 1:00 AM EDT

Questions remain on timing, distribution and use of vaccine
New wave of pandemic means rising health fears, restrictions

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-25/time-to-reset-expectations-for-world-economy-with-virus-untamed?srnd=premium

Young People Care More About Covid Than You Think

By Elaine He and Lara Williams October 23, 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-opinion-coronavirus-young-people-spread-care-about-social-distancing/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=201025&utm_campaign=sharetheview

Last updated: October 12, 2020, 22:42 GMT

United States

Coronavirus Cases: 8,035,254

Deaths: 220,005

Recovered: 5,169,173

How Many Coronavirus Deaths Could Occur in Each U.S. State

By Paul Murray, Emma Court and Kristen V. BrownPublished: April 6, 2020 | Updated: September 21, 2020

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-where-is-the-us-on-the-curve/?srnd=coronavirus

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: October 12, 2020, 22:44 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases: 38,012,466 view by country

Deaths: 1,084,707

Recovered: 28,558,009

Prognosis

German Cases Jump; U.K. Expands Toughest Rules: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 20, 2020, 6:37 PM EDT Updated on October 21, 2020, 7:44 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-20/china-defends-vaccinations-cases-up-in-u-s-south-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Covid-19 Live Updates: Volunteers to Be Infected With Coronavirus in Vaccine Study

Researchers in London are planning the world’s first effort to study how people immunized with different vaccines respond to exposure to the virus.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/20/world/covid-19-coronavirus-updates

NEWS

'Uncontrolled Spread' of COVID in Majority of U.S. States

BY SOO KIM ON 10/19/20 AT 12:55 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-us-cases-rising-most-states-covid-spread-pandemic-1540319?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1603156885890

Prognosis

Cases Top 40 Million as Europe Readies New Curbs: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 18, 2020, 5:57 PM EDT Updated on October 19, 2020, 7:10 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-18/u-s-cases-over-50-000-again-italy-reports-record-virus-update?srnd=premium

Prognosis

Ailments in Covid-19 Trials Raise Questions About Vaccine Method

By John Lauerman, James Paton, and Stephanie BakerOctober 17, 2020, 8:30 AM EDT

Experimental shots from J&J, AstraZeneca based on adenoviruses
Past experiments with vectors include successes, failures

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-17/ailments-in-covid-19-trials-raise-questions-about-vaccine-method

Prognosis

Italy Readies New Virus Measures With London, Paris Under Curbs

By Tommaso Ebhardt, John Follain, Chiara Albanese, and Sarah SyedOctober 18, 2020, 3:56 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-18/italy-readies-new-virus-measures-with-london-paris-under-curbs?srnd=premium

U.S.

North Dakota on Course to Break COVID Death Toll Record in October, As ICU Beds Run Low

BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 10/16/20 AT 11:35 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/north-dakota-covid-death-october-1539816

What Does ‘Negative’ on a Coronavirus Test Really Mean?

President Trump’s recent tests are a reminder that although many products exist, none test for infectiousness.

By Katherine J. Wu Oct. 15, 2020 读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/health/coronavirus-testing-negative.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=781532586&algo=identity&imp_id=112864396

OCTOBER 16, 20202:49 AMUPDATED 8 HOURS AGO

Sinovac coronavirus vaccine offered by Chinese city for emergency use costs $60

By Reuters Staff BEIJING (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-vaccine/sinovac-coronavirus-vaccine-offered-by-chinese-city-for-emergency-use-costs-60-idUSKBN2710UQ

Mexican Billionaire With Covid Says We’ll All Get It in Time

By Justin Villamil and Dale QuinnOctober 15, 2020, 1:32 PM EDT Updated on October 15, 2020, 5:57 PM EDT

Ricardo Salinas Pliego confirmed his Covid-19 diagnosis
The billionaire has been a vocal critic of lockdown measures

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-15/mexican-billionaire-with-covid-says-we-ll-all-get-it-eventually

A Dose of Optimism, as the Pandemic Rages On

The months ahead will be difficult. But the medical cavalry is coming, and the rest of us know what we need to do.

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. Oct. 12, 2020 Leer en español

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/health/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-optimism.html

The Race for a Super-Antibody Against the Coronavirus

A network of scientists is chasing the pandemic’s holy grail: an antibody that protects against not just the virus, but also related pathogens that may threaten humans.

By Apoorva Mandavilli Published Oct. 12, 2020Updated Oct. 13, 2020, 9:43 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/health/coronavirus-monoclonal-antibodies-trump.html?action=click&block=more_in_recirc&impression_id=3d005e10-0d6e-11eb-ba04-47ec7f444755&index=2&pgtype=Article&region=footer

Donald Trump is accidentally right in saying the US shouldn’t fear Covid-19

The problem is, instead of using his own brush with the virus to drive home a powerful message of overcoming adversity with common sense and courage, he made his refusal to wear a face mask the defining image of his failed Covid-19 policy

Robert Delaney Published: 1:00am, 13 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3105107/trump-accidentally-right-saying-us-shouldnt-fear-covid-19

How to Keep the Coronavirus at Bay Indoors

Tips for dodging the virus as Americans retreat from colder weather: Open the windows, buy an air filter

By Apoorva Mandavilli Published Sept. 27, 2020 Updated Oct. 5, 2020 Leer en español

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/27/health/coronavirus-transmission-indoors.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article

Covid - What's the risk?

https://covidcanidoit.com/US/all

HEALTH

Russia Breaks New Coronavirus Cases Record for Third Time in a Week

BY BRENDAN COLE ON 10/13/20 AT 11:17 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-breaks-new-coronavirus-cases-record-third-time-week-1538647

Prognosis

Trump Tests Negative; More Shutdowns in Europe: Virus Update

Bloomberg News October 11, 2020, 5:58 PM EDT Updated on October 12, 2020, 5:33 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-11/u-s-cases-remain-high-military-leader-reassures-virus-update

How Will We Cope With the Pandemic Fall?

Mental health experts offer advice on how to handle the return to indoor life the cooler weather will bring.

By Jeff Wilser Oct. 9, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/well/family/fall-covid-mental-health.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=208862743&algo=identity&imp_id=844808413

First case of COVID-19 reinfection confirmed in the U.S.

Oct. 13, 2020 4:32 AM ET |About: Pfizer Inc. (PFE)| By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3621570-first-case-of-covidminus-19-reinfection-confirmed-in-u-s

How Will We Know a 2nd Virus Wave Has Arrived in N.Y.C.?

There are signs of trouble ahead: Rising rates of positive tests have alarmed health experts, and city and state officials.

By J. David Goodman Oct. 8, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/nyregion/nyc-coronavirus-second-wave.html

HEALTH

Large COVID Outbreak at Nursery Shows Toddlers Can Spread Disease, CDC Report Says

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 10/12/20 AT 7:09 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/large-covid-outbreak-nursery-shows-toddlers-can-spread-disease-cdc-report-says-1538248?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1602504448886

A Word from the Experts

Trump’s vaccine czar says the first vaccine should be submitted for emergency authorization around Thanksgiving

Published: Oct. 10, 2020 at 9:36 a.m. ET By Jaimy Lee

Head of Operation Warp Speed is hopeful first vaccines will be 80% to 90% effective

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trumps-vaccine-czar-says-the-first-vaccine-should-be-submitted-for-emergency-authorization-around-thanksgiving-2020-10-08?mod=home-page

Business

Iran Deaths Hit Record; U.K. to Lay Out New Curbs: Virus Update

Bloomberg News October 11, 2020, 5:58 PM EDT Updated on October 12, 2020, 7:24 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-11/u-s-cases-remain-high-military-leader-reassures-virus-update?srnd=premium

Oct 9, 2020,05:45pm EDT

World Health Organization Reports Record Daily Number Of Covid-19 Infections

Matt Perez Forbes Staff Innovation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattperez/2020/10/09/world-health-organization-reports-record-daily-number-of-covid-19-infections/#29ed35ec19ed

Covid virus ‘survives for 28 days’ in lab conditions

The virus responsible for Covid-19 can remain infectious on surfaces such as banknotes, phone screens and stainless steel for 28 days, researchers say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54500673

Prognosis

Inhaled Vaccines Aim to Fight Coronavirus at Its Point of Attack

Vaccines sprayed into the nose or inhaled through the mouth won’t require needles and could be easier to roll out. They may be more effective too.

By James PatonOctober 11, 2020, 2:00 AM EDT

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/covid-19-inhaled-vaccines-may-be-more-effective-than-injections

Asia / South Asia

India closes in on US as coronavirus cases cross 7-million mark, Jakarta set to ease curbs

India expected to become pandemic’s worst-hit country in coming weeks as
Health Ministry registered 74,383 infections in past 24 hours with 918 deaths
Meanwhile, Indonesia’s capital will ease social distancing curbs starting on Monday despite struggling to contain the spread of infection

Agence France-Presse Published: 12:48pm, 11 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3105024/india-closes-us-coronavirus-cases-cross-7-million

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Summary

Unfortunately the Covid-19 virus is not over.

During the recent downturn I voted to increase my positions in (AMGN) (ABBV) (JNJ) (GILD) (MRK).

We all need to understand BSL-4 Labs and confirmation of the origins of the Covid-19 virus.

I remain hopeful that politicos will go after bigger fish before they target the biotech/pharma companies.

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Astrazeneca secures $286.93M U.S. Army contract for 200M doses of AZD1222

Oct. 29, 2020 6:45 PM ET|About: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN)|By: Akanksha Bakshi, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3628861-astrazeneca-secures-286_93m-u-s-army-contract-for-200m-doses-of-azd1222

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2399096/source/news_body_link/

LY-CoV555

Eli Lilly secures $312.5M U.S. Army contract for LY-CoV555 procurement

Oct. 29, 2020 6:37 PM ET|About: Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)|By: Akanksha Bakshi, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3628859-eli-lilly-secures-312_5m-u-s-army-contract-for-ly-cov555-procurement

Eli Lilly and Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, was awarded a $312,500,000 firm-fixed-price contract for procurement of monoclonal antibody therapeutic LY-CoV555.

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contracts/Contract/Article/2399096/source/news_body_link/

WORLD NEWS OCTOBER 30, 20201:24 PMUPDATED AN HOUR AGO

J&J plans to test its COVID-19 vaccine in ages 12-18 soon

By Reuters Staff

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-j-j/jj-plans-to-test-its-covid-19-vaccine-in-ages-12-18-soon-idINKBN27F2MP?source=news_body_link

Prognosis

Gilead’s Coronavirus Therapy Remdesivir Beats Sales Estimates

By Robert LangrethOctober 28, 2020, 4:28 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-28/gilead-s-coronavirus-therapy-remdesivir-beats-sales-estimates?srnd=premium

Lilly inks U.S. deal to supply 300K vials of LY-CoV555 for COVID-19

Oct. 28, 2020 6:59 AM ET|About: Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)|By: Douglas W. House, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3627067-lilly-inks-u-s-deal-to-supply-300k-vials-of-ly-cov555-for-covidminus-19

Sanofi, Glaxo to supply 200M doses to COVID-19 vaccine alliance

Oct. 28, 2020 3:38 AM ET|About: Sanofi (SNY)|By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3626972-sanofi-glaxo-to-supply-200m-doses-to-covidminus-19-vaccine-alliance

Novavax Provides Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Clinical Development Update

Tue October 27, 2020 9:03 AM |GlobeNewswire|About: NVAX

5,500 volunteers enrolled to date in pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial in the U.K.
- Study expanded to 15,000 participants
- Full enrollment expected by end of November
- Event-driven interim data expected as soon as early first quarter 2021
U.S. pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial planned to begin by end of November
- Significant progress in large-scale manufacturing achieved with some delay from original timeline
Company to present data from its ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial, including new Phase 2 reactogenicity data, during public CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting on October 30

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Novavax (NVAX)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/18059657-novavax-provides-phase-3-covidminus-19-vaccine-clinical-development-update

London hospitals told to be ready to receive AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine: media reports

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said vaccinating health workers was not his “central expectation” though he did not rule it out

Giulia Bottaro 13:03 Mon 26 Oct 2020 AstraZeneca PLC (LON:AZN)

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/932372/astrazeneca-about-to-deliver-first-batches-of-covid-19-vaccine-to-london-hospitals-media-reports-932372.html?source=news_body_link

FDA authorises restart of the COVID-19 AZD1222 vaccine US Phase III trial

PUBLISHED23 October 2020

https://www.astrazeneca.com/content/astraz/media-centre/press-releases/2020/fda-authorises-restart-of-the-covid-19-azd1222-vaccine-us-phase-iii-trial.html

AstraZeneca vaccine trials offer hope for older age groups - FT

Oct. 26, 2020 3:58 AM ET |About: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN)|By: Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3625555-astrazeneca-vaccine-trials-offer-hope-for-older-age-groups-ft

J&J to resume U.S. part of COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial

Published: Oct. 23, 2020 at 4:52 p.m. ET By Wallace Witkowski

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/j-j-to-resume-u-s-part-of-covid-19-vaccine-clinical-trial-11603486332?source=news_body_link

Remdesivir shows success in large COVID-19 trial. Will become 'new standard of care,' Fauci says.

By Nicoletta Lanese - Staff Writer April 29, 2020

https://www.livescience.com/remdesivir-will-be-new-standard-of-care.html#:~:text=When%20tested%20in%20animal%20models%20of%20coronavirus%20infection%2C,a%20lab%20dish%20when%20exposed%20to%20the%20drug.

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The labs where monsters live

CORONAVIRUS

The labs where monsters live

As countries around the world invest in Biosafety Level 4 laboratories to study lethal viruses and prepare against unknown pathogens, some scientists are sounding the alarm about the potential for a catastrophic accident or attack.

Published Sep 12, 2020

Story by Eduardo Baptista, Linda Lew, Simone McCarthy and Peter Langan

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: October 26, 2020, 21:00 GMT Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases: 43,695,693 view by country Deaths: 1,163,019 Recovered: 32,072,568

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

https://www.worldometers.info/

What is CRISPR? The gene-editing technology carries much promise – and peril – amid pandemic

novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 病毒：新型冠状病毒 2019-nCoV

Global coronavirus cases pass 40 million mark as infection rates rebound in the US and Europe

•Oct 20, 2020
South China Morning Post

Coronavirus means less sex – for Chinese, Americans, British, Turkish

Survey in Turkey shows pattern consistent with findings in China, US and Britain: people are having sex less often and fewer partners-Results suggest people are afraid of spreading Covid-19 during sex, researchers say

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 12:00am, 28 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3107296/coronavirus-means-less-sex-chinese-americans-british-turkish

Coronavirus: co-infection with influenza can speed up replication of pathogen that causes Covid-19, study says

Modifications to the structure of human cells caused by a flu bug can make it easier for the coronavirus to invade them, Chinese researchers say
Upcoming flu season presents a ‘potentially severe threat to public health’, they say

Stephen Chen

Phuket a 'ghost island' as Covid-19 pandemic keeps tourists away from Thai travel hotspot

•Oct 12, 2020
South China Morning Post

More children forced to work as coronavirus batters India’s economy

•Oct 7, 2020
South China Morning Post

Worldwide Covid-19 death toll surpasses 1 million

•Sep 28, 2020

South China Morning Post

US President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump test positive for Covid-19

•Oct 2, 2020
South China Morning Post

Sharing COVID-19 experiences: The Thailand response

•Sep 16, 2020

South China Morning Post

If China’s coronavirus vaccines work, which countries will get them and for how much?

•Sep 29, 2020
South China Morning Post

Sharing COVID-19 experiences: The New Zealand response

•Jul 7, 2020
South China Morning Post

China prepares for coronavirus vaccine mass production though clinical trials are not yet complete

Sep 7, 2020
South China Morning Post

World’s first coronavirus reinfection case confirmed in Hong Kong, a university study reports

•Aug 25, 2020

South China Morning Post

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Links between brain disorders and coronavirus infections under investigation in the UK

•Jul 29, 2020
South China Morning Post

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Shows Promising Results

Aug 22, 2020

Indiatimes

novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) 病毒：新型冠状病毒 2019-nCoV

Six months after WHO declared Covid-19 a public health emergency, what more do we know now?

Jul 30, 2020 South China Morning Pos

India's Covid-19 cases pass 1.5 million mark

Jul 29, 2020 South China Morning Pos

Experts from mainland China arrive to help Hong Kong fight the city’s worst wave of coronavirus

Aug 2, 20202 South China Morning Post

What started Hong Kong's third Covid-19 wave?

Jul 30, 2020 South China Morning Post

Bars and pubs shut as Vietnam faces new wave of Covid-19 infections

Aug 2, 2020 South China Morning Post

Melbourne enacts citywide curfew as Australia continues to battle spike in coronavirus cases

Aug 2, 2020 South China Morning Post

How hi-tech solutions are being used across Asia to cope with the coronavirus pandemic

Aug 6, 2020 South China Morning Post

CORONAVIRUS

Russia approves ‘world’s first’ Covid-19 vaccine, President Vladimir Putin says

Aug 11, 2020 South China Morning Post

CORONAVIRUS

Philippines returns to Covid-19 lockdown as infections soar to record highs

Aug 4, 2020 South China Morning Post

CORONAVIRUS

Scientists at Oxford University share promising news on coronavirus vaccine trials

Jul 21, 2020 South China Morning Post

CORONAVIRUS

Brazil’s favela slums left to fight the coronavirus alone as Covid-19 spread continues in country

Aug 6, 2020 South China Morning Post

CORONAVIRUS

‘Robust immune responses’ found in Covid-19 vaccine clinical trials point to 2021 release

Jul 24, 2020 South China Morning Post

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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: September 29, 2020, 13:32 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases: 33,608,244 view by country Deaths: 1,007,532 Recovered: 24,914,012

Antibody Drugs Touted by Trump Could Be Next to Get Authorized for Covid-19

If the drugs are greenlighted, expected heavy demand is likely to surpass limited initial supplies from Regeneron and Lilly

By Joseph Walker and Peter Loftus Oct. 9, 2020 5:30 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/antibody-drugs-touted-by-trump-could-be-next-to-get-authorized-for-covid-19-11602235803?mod=hp_lead_pos6

Pennsylvania COVID Cases Soar as Crucial Swing State Sees Highest Daily Rise since April

BY SOO KIM ON 10/9/20 AT 11:21 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-pennsylvania-swing-state-election-poll-covid-19-cases-rise-highest-since-april-1537845

Coronavirus: Spain imposes state of emergency on Madrid

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54478320

Covid-19 in the UK: How many coronavirus cases are there in your area?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51768274

Opinion Andrew Sheng

The big lesson from the Covid-19 pandemic: invest in people

The pandemic has hastened existing trends, advancing the move online and killing off dying or obsolete industries
Given that studies have shown investing in people offers better returns than sinking funds into hardware, this should be our focus for the future

Andrew Sheng Published: 3:30am, 10 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3104677/big-lesson-covid-19-pandemic-invest-people

Politics & Policy

A Coronavirus Commission Is Crucial for America's Recovery

An investigation of the pandemic should include scientists, doctors and — gasp! — a Big Pharma executive.

By James StavridisOctober 9, 2020, 10:00 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-09/a-coronavirus-commission-is-crucial-for-america-s-recovery?srnd=premium

The Truth About Trump's Covid-19 Cocktail ‘Cure’

The antibody treatments the president is touting aren’t established as a surefire remedy, aren’t yet widely available and won’t necessarily be free.

By Max NisenOctober 8, 2020, 12:35 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-10-08/the-truth-about-trump-s-regeneron-covid-19-cocktail-cure

Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump Is Hospitalized as More Aides Test Positive

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/03/world/covid-trump

The Day Covid-19 Came to Trump’s White House

Trump’s Hospital Admission Jolts White House and Election Campaign
Physicians Decided to Start Remdesivir Therapy for Trump
Hospital Stay Broadens Array of Treatments Available to Trump

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-03/-top-of-his-game-the-day-covid-19-came-to-trump-s-white-house?srnd=premium

Live updates: Trump heading to Walter Reed hospital after positive coronavirus test

By John Wagner, Colby Itkowitz, Josh Dawsey, Matt Viser, Amy B Wang,

Amy B WangNational politics reporter covering 2020 presidential campaignsEmail Bio Follow Reis Thebault and Meryl KornfieldOct. 2, 2020 at 5:53 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/10/02/trump-biden-live-updates/

Physicians Decided to Start Remdesivir Therapy for Trump

About Remdesivir

https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-health/covid-19/about-remdesivir

India’s Covid-19 Death Toll Passes 100,000

Only the United States and Brazil have reported more deaths from the coronavirus. Despite its climbing numbers, India plans to lift more restrictions.

By Sameer Yasir Oct. 3, 2020, 3:52 a.m. ET SRINAGAR, Kashmir

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/03/world/asia/india-coronavirus-deaths.html

Covid-19 Live Updates: Trump To Undergo Tests at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

President Trump received an experimental drug for mild symptoms, which included a cough and low-grade fever after testing positive for the coronavirus. Vice President Mike Pence, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Speaker Nancy Pelosi have tested negative.

The president has a fever, congestion and a cough, people close to him say, and he is expected to spend a few days at Walter Reed.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/10/02/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Provocative results’ boost hopes of antibody treatment for COVID-19

By Jon CohenSep. 30, 2020 , 5:15 PM

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/provocative-results-boost-hopes-antibody-treatment-covid-19

September 29, 2020 at 4:01 PM EDT Back

REGENERON'S REGN-COV2 ANTIBODY COCKTAIL REDUCED VIRAL LEVELS AND IMPROVED SYMPTOMS IN NON-HOSPITALIZED COVID-19 PATIENTS

TARRYTOWN, N.Y., Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --

Greatest improvements in patients who had not mounted their own effective immune response prior to treatment

Plan rapidly to discuss results with regulatory authorities

Regeneron to host investor and media webcast to discuss results at 4:30 pm ET today

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN)

https://investor.regeneron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/regenerons-regn-cov2-antibody-cocktail-reduced-viral-levels-and

Prognosis

New York Spikes Again; WHO Faults U.S. Response: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsOctober 1, 2020, 7:04 PM EDT Updated on October 2, 2020, 4:01 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-01/amazon-workers-had-covid-19-cdc-funds-stalled-virus-update?srnd=premium

China / Diplomacy

Trump coronavirus diagnosis means tougher US line on China, analysts say

Positive test result will be used as justification for the US president to use harder China-bashing tactics, observers say
News becomes top trending topic on Chinese social media

Kristin Huang, Holly Chik and Shi Jiangtao Published: 10:00pm, 2 Oct, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3103990/trump-coronavirus-diagnosis-means-tougher-us-line-china

Gov. Murphy in Ocean County: Lakewood COVID-19 spike ‘deeply concerning’

Erik Larsen Joshua Chung Asbury Park Press
https://www.app.com/story/news/local/ocean-county/2020/10/02/gov-murphy-ocean-county-lakewood-covid-19-spike-deeply-concerning/3592917001/

Prognosis

Covid-19’s Blow Is Falling Harder Than Ever on Rural America

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-10-02/covid-has-never-been-so-hard-on-rural-u-s-compared-with-cities?srnd=premium

Prognosis

New York Cases Surge; Paris May Close Bars Again: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 30, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT Updated on October 1, 2020, 2:21 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/india-s-super-spreaders-u-s-stimulus-talks-virus-update?srnd=premium

HEALTHCARE & PHARMASEPTEMBER 30, 20202:10 PMUPDATED A DAY AGO

Brazil's Sao Paulo signs agreement with Sinovac for COVID vaccine doses

By Reuters Staff

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-sao-paulo/brazils-sao-paulo-signs-agreement-with-sinovac-for-covid-vaccine-doses-idUSKBN26L3EO

U.S.

U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Still Rising in 21 States as Deaths Surpass 1 Million Worldwide

BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 9/29/20 AT 9:14 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/us-coronavirus-cases-are-still-rising-21-states-deaths-surpass-1-million-worldwide-1534907?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1601429206142

Opinion Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

As coronavirus deaths cross 1 million, the key lesson is that it’s never too late to fight back

Several countries had the right preparedness infrastructure in place and took swift, effective action to contain outbreaks
Because this international public health emergency needs a global solution, support for the Access to Covid-19 Tools Accelerator is crucial

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Published: 4:15am, 30 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3103495/coronavirus-deaths-cross-1-million-key-lesson-its-never-too-late

Prognosis

‘Game Changing’ 15-Minute Covid-19 Test Cleared in Europe

By Emma CourtSeptember 30, 2020, 2:30 AM EDT

U.S. company plans to begin selling test at the end of October
Rapid antigen test to be sold in countries that accept CE mark

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/becton-dickinson-15-minute-virus-test-cleared-in-europe?srnd=coronavirus

Prognosis

New York City’s Average Positivity Climbs as Hot Spot Cases Continue to Rise

The mayor is concerned about upticks in parts of Brooklyn and Queens.

Opinion Cassey Lee, Siwage Dharma Negara and Maxensius Tri Sambodo

Southeast Asia dodged the worst of Covid-19, but the economic devastation may last for years

Despite having a smaller share of total infections than other parts of the world, Covid-19’s economic impact in Southeast Asia has been severe
Recovery will depend on countries’ exposure to the global economy and their ability to control contagion without resorting to stringent lockdown measures

Cassey Lee, Siwage Dharma Negara and Maxensius Tri Sambodo Published: 4:00pm, 30 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3103645/southeast-asia-escaped-worst-covid-19-its-economic-effects-could

Sep 30, 2020 08:07 PMSOCIETY & CULTURE

Photo Essay: Gamblers at World’s Biggest Casino Hub Unwilling to Take Chance on Covid-19

By Huang Shulun, Liu Yanfei, Liang Yingfei and Wang Xintong

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-09-30/photo-essay-gamblers-at-worlds-biggest-casino-hub-unwilling-to-take-chance-on-covid-19-101611782.html

Prognosis

Deaths Top 1 Million; Germany May Limit Parties: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 28, 2020, 6:52 PM EDT Updated on September 29, 2020, 7:20 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/trump-warns-of-more-cases-states-get-rapid-tests-virus-update?srnd=premium

Global death toll from coronavirus tops 1 million

Bleak milestone, recorded by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Jerusalem or Austin, Texas
The United States has the highest death toll in the world with almost 205,000 fatalities

Associated Press Published: 9:09am, 29 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3103425/global-death-toll-coronavirus-tops-1-million

China / Science

Mother’s milk could help fight coronavirus, study finds

Chinese researchers found that exposure to human breast milk helps kill the virus that causes Covid-19
Some health authorities have warned that breastfeeding could spread the virus, although the World Health Organization says mothers should continue to do so

Stephen Chen in Beijing Published: 8:15am, 28 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3103248/mothers-milk-could-help-fight-coronavirus-study-finds

White House Pressured C.D.C. Over School Risks

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/29/world/covid-19-coronavirus

Prognosis

Global Deaths Top 1 Million; Boris Johnson’s Gaffe: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 28, 2020, 6:52 PM EDT Updated on September 29, 2020, 9:32 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-28/trump-warns-of-more-cases-states-get-rapid-tests-virus-update

As Coronavirus Deaths Pass 1 Million, These Are the Countries Worst Affected

BY SOO KIM ON 9/29/20 AT 2:33 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-global-death-toll-one-million-covid-19-pandemic-1533340?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1601381558421

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COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Prognosis

New York Sees Uptick; Global Death Milestone Nears: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 27, 2020, 7:01 PM EDT Updated on September 28, 2020, 12:48 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-27/new-york-city-cases-still-alarming-in-some-areas-virus-update?srnd=premium

Murders Climbed in 27 U.S. Cities as the Virus Spread in the Summer

New York City schools are scrambling to reopen. The city is the only major district in the U.S. restarting in-person classes this month. Here’s the latest.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/09/28/world/covid-19-coronavirus

08 SEPTEMBER 2020 CORRECTION 16 SEPTEMBER 2020

The coronavirus is mutating — does it matter?

Different SARS-CoV-2 strains haven’t yet had a major impact on the course of the pandemic, but they might in future.

Ewen Callaway

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02544-6

HEALTH

Fauci Says 7 Million U.S. COVID-19 Cases, 200,000 Deaths First Wave as Threat of Second Surge Looms

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 9/26/20 AT 5:32 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-second-wave-coronavirus-1534418?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1601123552041

U.S.

North Dakota Coronavirus Cases Soar As State Rescinds Quarantine Order and Students Fail to Get Tested

BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 9/25/20 AT 5:20 AM EDT

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Prognosis

New York City Cases Still ‘Alarming’ in Some Areas: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 26, 2020, 7:33 PM EDT Updated on September 27, 2020, 4:00 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-26/new-york-cases-top-1-000-midwest-breaks-records-virus-update?srnd=premium

Business

Covid Immunity Remains Low With Under 10% of U.S. Adults Exposed

By Michelle Fay CortezSeptember 25, 2020, 6:30 PM EDT

Analysis of 28,500 dialysis patients paints nationwide picture
Results are a blow to hopes for rise of herd immunity

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-25/covid-immunity-remains-low-with-under-10-of-u-s-adults-exposed?srnd=premium

Johnson & Johnson Initiates Pivotal Global Phase 3 Clinical Trial of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

First participants dosed in Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) evaluating safety and efficacy of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735, also known as Ad26.COV2.S

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., September 23, 2020 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, JNJ-78436735, being developed by its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies.

https://www.jnj.com/johnson-johnson-initiates-pivotal-global-phase-3-clinical-trial-of-janssens-covid-19-vaccine-candidate

Prognosis

Covid Doctors Find a Turning Point in Life-Threatening Cases

By Jason GaleSeptember 24, 2020, 2:00 PM EDT Updated on September 25, 2020, 10:32 AM EDT

Research hints antiviral interferon could help some patients
Brothers with rare gene defects point way to possible therapy

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-24/covid-doctors-follow-dna-trail-to-potential-immune-treatment?srnd=premium

U.S.

North Dakota Coronavirus Cases Soar As State Rescinds Quarantine Order and Students Fail to Get Tested

BY ARISTOS GEORGIOU ON 9/25/20 AT 5:20 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/north-dakota-coronavirus-quarantine-order-students-testing-1534222?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1601040255554

Retirees Kept Apart by Covid Defy an Isolated and Lonely Future

The Phoenix Phellows feel the loss after 30 years of coffee together.

By Margaret Newkirk September 23, 2020, 6:00 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-23/retirees-kept-apart-by-covid-defy-an-isolated-and-lonely-future?srnd=premium

WORLD

Boris Johnson Tells U.K. to 'Summon Discipline' as COVID 'Second Wave' Grows

BY ALEX HUDSON ON 9/22/20 AT 3:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/boris-johnson-tells-uk-summon-discipline-covid-second-wave-grows-1533674?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1600828145994

Prognosis

U.S. Cases Rise 0.7%; Death Toll Exceeds 200,000: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 21, 2020, 6:40 PM EDT Updated on September 22, 2020, 4:07 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-21/global-vaccine-pact-grows-u-k-plans-new-curbs-virus-update?srnd=premium

NEWS

CDC Reverses Guidance for Second Time in a Week, Removes COVID Airborne Warning

BY KATHERINE FUNG ON 9/21/20 AT 1:15 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-reverses-guidance-second-time-week-removes-covid-airborne-warning-1533349?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1600743179041

HEALTH

CDC Says Coronavirus Airborne—Here's How the Guidelines on Transmission Have Changed

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 9/21/20 AT 3:43 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/cdc-coronavirus-airborne-guidelines-transmission-changed-1533182?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1600696397852

PrognosisU.S. Stands on Verge of Dark New Milestone: 200,000 Virus Deaths 4 hours ago

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-18/u-s-stands-on-verge-of-dark-new-milestone-200-000-virus-deaths?srnd=premium

Opinion

What the Fall and Winter of the Pandemic Will Look Like

The coronavirus isn’t going away, but a vaccine is coming and so is an election.

By Jeneen Interlandi Ms. Interlandi is a member of the editorial board. Sept. 18, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/coronavirus-fall-winter.html

U.S.

North Dakota, Wisconsin and Missouri Report Most COVID Infections Since Start of Pandemic

BY DANIEL VILLARREAL ON 9/18/20 AT 12:02 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/north-dakota-wisconsin-missouri-report-most-covid-infections-since-start-pandemic-1532777?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1600407172693

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This is CNBC’s live blog covering all the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak. This blog will be updated throughout the day as the news breaks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/coronavirus-live-updates.html

Prognosis

China Expects Virus Vaccine to Be Ready in November, Expert Says

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 16, 2020, 1:19 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/china-expects-virus-vaccine-to-be-ready-in-november-expert-says?srnd=premium

Prognosis

New York City Prepares for a Second Wave, With a Chance to Blunt the Worst

A case at JPMorgan is the latest example of what will happen as workers and students come back

By Drew ArmstrongSeptember 15, 2020, 5:39 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/will-new-york-face-a-second-wave-of-covid-19?srnd=premium

To Beat the Coronavirus, Build a Better Fence

By Tomás Pueyo with Nathaniel Lash and Yaryna Serkez
Illustrations by Annie Jen Sept. 14, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/14/opinion/politics/coronavirus-close-borders-travel-quarantine.html

What We Actually Know About Where Americans Are Moving During Covid

Despite talk of an urban exodus, fewer people moved during the height of the pandemic. But in a few cities, the story is a little different.

By Marie PatinoSeptember 16, 2020, 11:10 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-16/the-truth-about-american-migration-during-covid?srnd=premium

REAL ESTATE

Homebuilder sentiment soars to record high, but lumber prices raise a red flag

PUBLISHED WED, SEP 16 202010:00 AM EDT Diana Olick
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/16/homebuilder-sentiment-soars-to-record-high-but-lumber-prices-rise.html

China / Science

There won’t be enough coronavirus vaccines for a return to normal life until 2022, WHO scientist says

The need for social distancing and mask wearing will continue next year, leading World Health Organisation scientist predicts
Negotiations ongoing for US and China to participate in the WHO’s global alliance of equitable vaccine distribution

Josephine Ma Published: 11:00am, 16 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3101709/there-wont-be-enough-coronavirus-vaccines-return-normal-life

Singapore turns a corner in Covid-19 fight but experts warn the battle is not over

Coronavirus infections in the city state have steadily declined and 99 per cent of its total cases have been reported as recovered
Authorities are easing more restrictions this week amid plans to allow for more inbound travel but at least one expert is calling for ‘eternal vigilance’

Dewey Sim in Singapore and Kok Xinghui Published: 5:19pm, 28 Sep, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3103353/singapore-turns-corner-covid-19-fight-experts-warn-battle-not

Coronavirus Map: Tracking the Global Outbreak By The New York TimesUpdated August 31, 2020, 12:12 P.M. E.T.

The Carnival Cruise Ship That Spread Coronavirus Around the World

How were hundreds of infected Ruby Princess passengers allowed to disembark in Sydney and return to homes from Tasmania to Florida?

By Matthew Campbell

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-09-15/carnival-s-ruby-princess-cruise-ship-spread-coronavirus-around-the-world

CORONAVIRUS

25 years wiped out in 25 weeks: Pandemic sets the world back decades

Progress on global health and the worldwide economy has regressed, Gates Foundation report finds.

By CARMEN PAUN 09/14/2020 11:00 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/14/gates-report-pandemic-world-setbacks-414934

How the Aging Immune System Makes Older People Vulnerable to Covid-19

As we age, the immune system begins to shift into a heightened state of alert, dialing up inflammation and running out of certain immune cells.

By Veronique Greenwood Sept. 8, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/health/covid-aging-immune-system.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=568992359&algo=identity&imp_id=939716506

A record one-day rise in the number of new coronavirus cases around the world has been recorded

The World Health Organization (WHO) says 307,930 confirmed infections were reported over 24 hours

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-54141297

U.S.

8-Month-Old Among Kids Who Caught COVID-19 at Childcare Facilities And Spread It to Relatives, Study Shows

BY KHALEDA RAHMAN ON 9/13/20 AT 6:49 AM EDT

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Prognosis

U.S. Has Its Deadliest Day in More Than Two Weeks: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsSeptember 11, 2020, 6:30 PM EDT Updated on September 12, 2020, 12:02 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/u-s-cases-rise-0-8-texas-nears-14-000-deaths-virus-update?srnd=premium

CORONAVIRUS

The labs where monsters live

Story by Eduardo Baptista, Linda Lew, Simone McCarthy and Peter Langan

https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/world/article/3101114/biosafety-laboratories/index.html

HEALTH

Coronavirus May Have Hit L.A. in December 2019, as Coughs Spiked Before First Official Case

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 9/10/20 AT 10:45 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-la-december-2019-coughs-first-official-case-1530924?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1599845557155

America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral

As the U.S. heads toward the winter, the country is going round in circles, making the same conceptual errors that have plagued it since spring.

Story by Ed Yong

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/

Londoners Venture Back to Work Despite Rise in Virus Infections

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-10/londoners-venture-back-to-work-despite-rise-in-virus-infections?srnd=premium

As U.S. Braces for Potential Second Wave, Nurses Say There's Still a Critical Shortage of N95 Masks

BY JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK ON 9/10/20 AT 10:22 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/us-braces-potential-second-wave-nurses-say-theres-still-critical-shortage-n95-masks-1530991?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1599792199675

European Countries 'Experiencing Larger Outbreaks' of Local COVID-19 Transmission

BY SOO KIM ON 9/10/20 AT 3:22 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-europe-local-cases-community-transmission-second-wave-1530721

HEALTH

India May Soon Overtake U.S. To Have Most Coronavirus Cases in World

BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 9/8/20 AT 10:11 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-india-overtake-u-s-1530298?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1599585738499

HEALTH

The Fog of the Pandemic Is Returning

Millions of coronavirus tests may be happening without their results being made public.

ALEXIS C. MADRIGALROBINSON MEYER8:00 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/how-many-people-america-testing-coronavirus/616249/

The Flu Season

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season.htm

94% of Americans who died from COVID-19 had contributing conditions: CDC

By Amanda Woods

August 31, 2020 | 3:33pm | Updated

https://nypost.com/2020/08/31/94-of-americans-who-died-from-covid-19-had-contributing-conditions/

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

PrognosisNIH Advisers Say Data Fails to Support Trump-Backed Plasma Therapy updated 2 hours ago

Nurses Say They’re Short on Masks, Other Protection Supplies

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-01/nurses-say-they-re-short-on-masks-other-protection-supplies?srnd=premium

Prognosis

Russia Passes Million Cases; Stricter Swedish Plan: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 31, 2020, 6:19 PM EDT Updated on September 1, 2020, 8:01 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-31/u-s-cases-top-6-million-astrazeneca-trial-begins-virus-update?srnd=coronavirus

Economics

New Yorkers Flee for Florida and Texas as Mobility Surges

By Steve Matthews and Alexandre TanziAugust 31, 2020, 9:37 AM EDT

United Van Lines and U-Haul see a summer pickup in mobility
The open spaces of Vermont, Oregon, Idaho attract relocators

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-31/new-yorkers-flee-for-florida-and-texas-as-mobility-surges

California chicken plant to temporarily close after 8 COVID deaths

BY KATE GIBSON

UPDATED ON: AUGUST 31, 2020 / 10:47 AM / MONEYWATCH

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/chicken-plant-foster-farms-california-covid-19-deaths-close-week/

Opinion

Trump’s Coronavirus Response Was Beyond Incompetent

He wasn’t oblivious to the danger. He just didn’t care.

By Paul Krugman Opinion Columnist Sept. 10, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/10/opinion/donald-trump-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage&section=OpEd%20Columnists

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

Updated: September 9, 2020, 5:28 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-cases-world-map/?srnd=coronavirus

A cheap steroid is the first drug shown to reduce death in COVID-19 patients

By Kai KupferschmidtJun. 16, 2020 , 6:20 PM

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/cheap-steroid-first-drug-shown-reduce-death-covid-19-patients

Advent Health Ocala’s ICAM Protocol Takes on COVID-19: Clinician Drives Real World Evidence & Breakthrough

SEP 24, 2020 | ADVENTHEALTH, COVID-19, ICAM, LEADING SITES, NEWS, OFF-LABEL, POPULAR POSTS, PROTOCOL, SITE SUCCESS, SITE WATCH

So, in summary, the ICAM protocol is a combination of 1) Vitamin C & zinc, 2) corticosteroid 3) anticoagulant and 4) macrolide. Each treatment was considered and selected for its contribution to a problem associated with COVID-19.

https://www.trialsitenews.com/advent-health-ocalas-icam-protocol-takes-on-covid-19-clinician-drives-real-world-evidence-breakthrough/

OPINION

The Gathering Parent Horror at Public School | Opinion

ABIGAIL SHRIER
ON 10/16/20 AT 6:00 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/gathering-parent-horror-public-school-opinion-1539181?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1602850178841

BioHazard2020 =Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World Updated: August 12, 2020, 9:27 AM EDT

Business

U.S. Cases Top 6 Million; Arizona Sees Progress: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 30, 2020, 6:58 PM EDT Updated on August 31, 2020, 12:15 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-30/n-y-state-faces-outbreaks-u-s-cases-ticking-up-virus-update?srnd=premium

Covid-19 Live Updates: India Sets Another Record for Daily Cases

The country, which has lost more than 64,000 people to the virus, now the world’s third-highest death toll.

RIGHT NOW

New Jersey restaurants can open for indoor dining at 25 percent of capacity starting Friday, Gov. Philip D. Murphy announced Monday on Twitter.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html

THE CHECKUP

Helping Children With Pandemic Grief

Many children may learn of a grandparent’s death without a chance to visit to say goodbye.

By Perri Klass, M.D. Aug. 31, 2020 Updated 10:04 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/31/well/family/children-coronavirus-grandparents-grief.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=897570995&algo=identity&imp_id=329338324

HEALTH

'It's Not Good News': Coronavirus Reinfections Have Now Been Recorded in Three Countries

BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 8/25/20 AT 8:42 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-test-reinfection-hong-kong-europe-1527422?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1598362022913

Prognosis

Hong Kong Reports First Confirmed Coronavirus Re-Infection

By Jinshan Hong and Jason GaleAugust 24, 2020, 7:33 AM EDT Updated on August 24, 2020, 9:56 PM EDT

Man found to be infected months apart by different strains
Case shows that re-infection may occur within a few months

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/hong-kong-reports-first-coronavirus-re-infection-in-it-worker

China Locks Down Xinjiang to Fight Covid-19, Angering Residents

The restrictions, which remain even after new coronavirus infections subsided, have ruined livelihoods and damaged Beijing’s efforts to project harmony in the troubled region.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/world/asia/china-xinjiang-covid.html

U.S.

Trump and FDA Announce New Method to Treat Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients

BY SCOTT MCDONALD ON 8/23/20 AT 5:50 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fda-announce-new-method-treat-hospitalized-covid-19-patients-1527035?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1598236314459

World / Americas

Christ the Redeemer reopens in Rio de Janeiro after months of coronavirus closures

Visitors to the historic site will be required to wear masks and maintain social distancing
Brazil estimates the country’s tourism sector has lost US$28.4 billion over the last five months

Agence France-Presse Published: 6:57am, 16 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/americas/article/3097532/christ-redeemer-reopens-rio-de-janeiro-after-months-coronavirus

FAMILY

How the Pandemic Has Changed Us Already

The Great Depression permanently altered many people’s behavior. Could COVID-19 do the same?

JOE PINSKERAUGUST 15, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/08/pandemic-habits-behaviors-great-depression-wash-hands/615283/

Is Your Child’s School Ready to Reopen?

By Yaryna Serkez and Stuart A. ThompsonAug. 14, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/14/opinion/politics/covid-school-reopening-guidelines.html

HEALTH

Texas Coronavirus Positivity Rate Just Reached 24 Percent, and It's Just Weeks Until Schools Reopen

BY HANNAH OSBORNE ON 8/13/20 AT 12:23 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-coronavirus-positivity-rate-schools-reopen-1524937?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1597411118878

China Drug Regulator Says COVID-19 Vaccines Must Have 50 Percent Efficacy Rate to Be Approved for Use

BY JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK ON 8/15/20 AT 4:24 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/china-drug-regulator-says-covid-19-vaccines-must-have-50-percent-efficacy-rate-approved-use-1525353?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1597546350458

How Covid Sends Some Bodies to War With Themselves

Many Covid-19 patients may be dying from their immune response to the virus, not from the virus itself. Can science figure out how to save them?

By Moises Velasquez-Manoff Aug. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/magazine/covid-cytokine-storms.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=24950675&algo=identity&imp_id=143139608

925 Quarantined for Covid. Is This a Successful School Reopening?

By Richard Fausset Aug. 12, 2020 Updated 8:30 a.m. ET CANTON, Ga.

A suburban Atlanta county opened its schools amid controversy and a growing case count, previewing a difficult national back-to-school season.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/us/georgia-school-coronavirus.html

Technology & Ideas

Why Young Adults Are Driving the New Coronavirus Spike

Wider testing explains the spike in reported cases among millennials and Generation Z, but so does social-distancing fatigue.

By Lara WilliamsAugust 13, 2020, 1:30 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-13/why-young-adults-are-driving-europe-s-coronavirus-curve?srnd=premium

EDUCATION

College towns fear super-spreader semester as students descend

Local officials are bracing for a virus explosion triggered by young people living in tight quarters who disregard social distancing rules.

By BIANCA QUILANTAN 08/11/2020 07:55 PM EDT Updated: 08/11/2020 11:55 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/11/college-towns-coronavirus-393881

The US has recorded fewer than 50,000 new daily cases for 3 days in a row

From CNN's Christina Maxouris

For three consecutive days, the US has reported fewer than 50,000 new daily cases of coronavirus, according to tallies from Johns Hopkins University.

On Sunday, Johns Hopkins reported 46,935 new cases and 515 new deaths.
On Monday, Johns Hopkins reported 49,536 new cases and 525 new deaths.
On Tuesday, Johns Hopkins reported 46,808 new cases and 1,074 new deaths.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-08-12-20-intl/h_02cd74c103f6c0584ebf1ffd5755e2bc

'Hundreds dead' because of Covid-19 misinformation

By Alistair ColemanBBC Monitoring

At least 800 people died around the world because of coronavirus-related misinformation in the first three months of this year, researchers say.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-53755067

Florida and Georgia set new single-day records for coronavirus deaths

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Rick Noack, Jennifer Hassan, Miriam Berger, Lateshia Beachum, Derek Hawkins, Brittany Shammas and Hamza Shaban

August 12, 2020 at 10:58 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/12/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/?hpid=hp_no-name_hp-in-the-news%3Apage%2Fin-the-news

Coronavirus Live Updates: Bars and Restaurants Become Hot Spots for U.S. Infections

Many community outbreaks this summer have centered on eateries and bars, data show. New Zealand has returned to a partial lockdown.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/12/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html

The True Coronavirus Toll in the U.S. Has Already Surpassed 200,000

By Denise LuAug. 13, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/12/us/covid-deaths-us.html

CORONAVIRUS

The next unprecedented vaccine hurdle: Making hundreds of millions of doses

Adding to the difficulty, several of the vaccines now in late-stage trials require two doses per person — doubling the manufacturing need.

By ZACHARY BRENNAN 08/12/2020 07:55 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/12/coronavirus-vaccine-challenges-394444

‘A Smoking Gun’: Infectious Coronavirus Retrieved From Hospital Air

Airborne virus plays a significant role in community transmission, many experts believe. A new study fills in the missing piece: Floating virus can infect cells.

By Apoorva Mandavilli Aug. 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/health/coronavirus-aerosols-indoors.html?action=click&algo=top_conversion&block=trending_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=166301012&impression_id=45e82aa6-dd65-11ea-a4f1-5f4580dd58b8&index=6&pgtype=Article&region=footer&req_id=90735292&surface=most-popular

New COVID-19 Saliva Test Is Born in Columbia Fertility Clinic

Columbia University Irving Medical Center

News June 20, 2020

https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/one-two-three-spit-covid-19-test-born-columbia-fertility-clinic

U.K. Tourists Face Chaos as France Added to Quarantine List

8/14/2020, 6:26:43 AM

U.K. Tourists Face Chaos as France Added to Quarantine List

By Robert Hutton and Tim Ross August 14, 2020, 5:15 AM EDT Updated on August 14, 2020, 10:06 AM EDT

New rules also apply to Malta, Monaco, Turks and Caicos, Aruba
PM Johnson eases lockdown for leisure but raises penalty fines

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-14/u-k-tourists-face-chaos-as-france-added-to-quarantine-list?srnd=premium

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker

By Jonathan Corum, Denise Grady, Sui-Lee Wee and Carl ZimmerUpdated August 21, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

Trump Says He Downplayed Virus Threat to Maintain U.S. Calm

By Josh Wingrove and Mario ParkerSeptember 9, 2020, 1:22 PM EDT Updated on September 9, 2020, 4:40 PM EDT

Trump gave series of interviews to journalist Woodward
President defends remarks, says he didn’t mislead public

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-09/trump-told-woodward-he-intentionally-downplayed-virus-risks?srnd=premium

biotecHOPE™ Won’t Stop Now

Aug. 26, 2020 5:37 PM ET|About: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN), BNTX, CYDY, GILD, GSK, MRK, NVAX, PFE, SNY

Summary

"The country behaved like a horror-movie character who believes the danger is over, even though the monster is still at large."

there is encouraging news coming from biotech/pharma companies with regard to vaccines and therapies to fight this virus.

"I know breakthrough is coming, By faith I see a miracle

My God made me a promise, And it won't stop now"

biotecHOPE™ Won’t Stop Now Aug. 26, 2020 5:37 PM ET|About: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN), BNTX, CYDY, GILD, GSK, MRK, NVAX, PFE, SNY

BioHazzard2020 COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC Last updated: August 25, 2020, 15:37 GMT

Prognosis

U.S. Cases Rise as Global Count Tops 25 Million: Virus Update

Bloomberg News August 29, 2020, 8:23 PM EDT Updated on August 30, 2020, 10:45 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-30/berlin-protest-turns-violent-u-s-cases-pick-up-virus-update?srnd=premium

Key Developments:

Global Tracker: Cases surpass 25 million; deaths exceed 843,200
Demand for online doctors forges $39 billion Sony-backed titan
India sets a daily record with 78,761 infections
Vaccine Tracker: Where we are in the race for protection?
U.S. adds 46,739 cases
U.K. Tories poll lead collapses on exam chaos, virus strategy

WORLD

India Surpasses U.S. Record of New Coronavirus Infections for Second Day In a Row With More than 78,000 Cases

BY JASON LEMON ON 8/31/20 AT 8:43 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/india-surpasses-us-record-new-coronavirus-infections-second-day-row-more-78000-cases-1528694?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1598879606779

World / United States & Canada

Global coronavirus tally soars past 25 million as India hits daily record

Nearly 40 per cent of all reported Covid-19 cases are in the United States and Brazil, the two worst-hit countries
India registered a record new 78,761 cases in the past 24 hours, the worst single-day spike in the world

Agence France-Presse Published: 2:46pm, 30 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3099443/global-coronavirus-tally-soars-past-25-million

THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus

What you need to know

Last updated: 30 Aug, 10:29PM

Global virus tally soars past 25 million as India hits daily record

NEWHong Kong travel agent pledges stricter oversight as ban on Air India nears end

NEWHong Kong’s ethnic minority groups marginalised academically amid pandemic

NEWCoronavirus: G20 debt relief for African nations may be too little too late

China seeks French cooperation in fight against Covid-19

Coronavirus fourth wave could be in store for Hong Kong, expert warns

Berlin police disperse ‘anti-corona’ protesters; Korea faces bed shortage

Business brisk as Hong Kong dine-in ban lifted, but restaurants still feeling pinch

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

Updated: August 30, 2020, 2:28 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-cases-world-map/?srnd=coronavirus

Prognosis

Colleges With Covid Outbreaks Advised to Keep Students on Campus

By Olivia Raimonde August 30, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT

UNC, Notre Dame among schools grappling with spike in cases
‘Decision to close universities could cost lives,’ Trump Said

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-30/colleges-with-covid-outbreaks-advised-to-keep-students-on-campus?srnd=premium

NEWS

University of Alabama Emphasizes Quarantine Protocols as Over 1,000 Students Test Positive Since Classes Resumed

BY JOCELYN GRZESZCZAK ON 8/29/20 AT 10:08 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/university-alabama-emphasizes-quarantine-protocols-over-1000-students-test-positive-since-1528532?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1598723138902

COVID-19 reinfection reported in Nevada patient, researchers say

The report comes several days after the first confirmed coronavirus reinfection in the world was identified in Hong Kong.Aug. 28, 2020, 11:46 AM EDT / Updated Aug. 28, 2020, 3:52 PM EDTBy Erika Edwards and Akshay Syal

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-19-reinfection-reported-nevada-patient-researchers-say-n1238679

World

All U.K. Child Covid Fatalities Had Underlying Conditions: Study

By Theo GoldenAugust 28, 2020, 5:02 AM EDT

Black or obese children are at a slighly higher risk
Safe for children to go back to school, says researcher

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-28/all-u-k-child-covid-fatalities-had-underlying-conditions-study?srnd=coronavirus

Gilead’s Investigational Antiviral Veklury® (Remdesivir) Receives U.S. Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization for the Treatment of Patients With Moderate COVID-19

Fri August 28, 2020 4:45 PM|Business Wire|About: GILD

-- Expands Previous Authorization of Veklury to Treat Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Regardless of Oxygen Status --

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD)

https://seekingalpha.com/pr/17987857-gilead-s-investigational-antiviral-veklury-remdesivir-receives-u-s-food-and-drug

WSJ NEWS EXCLUSIVE CHINA

Chinese Covid-19 Vaccine Maker in Talks With Countries on Early Approval

Executive at CanSino Biologics says it is asking nations to agree to distribute vaccine before final phase of clinical trials is complete

By Saeed Shah Aug. 28, 2020 7:00 am ET

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-covid-19-vaccine-maker-in-talks-with-countries-on-early-approval-11598612401?mod=pls_whats_news_us_business_f

Covid Gag Rules at U.S. Companies Are Putting Everyone at Risk

Employees say the biggest names in American business have banned them from alerting others to coronavirus outbreaks.

By Josh Eidelson

" Her boss, the general manager, told her she wasn’t allowed to mention the coronavirus case to anyone, including fellow staff."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-08-27/covid-pandemic-u-s-businesses-issue-gag-rules-to-stop-workers-from-talking?srnd=premium

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong public hospitals to revise Covid-19 treatment guidelines, highlight effective drugs behind low mortality rates

Hospital Authority’s infectious disease expert says new guidelines will highlight Interferon as major medication, combined with Ribavirin
Revelation comes as city continues to register drop in new daily cases amid third wave

Victor Ting Published: 10:21pm, 27 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3099152/hong-kong-public-hospitals-revise-covid-19

REBETOL® (ribavirin)

https://www.merck.com/product/usa/pi_circulars/r/rebetol/rebetol_pi.pdf

REBETOL® (ribavirin)

https://www.merck.com/?s=REBETOL%C2%AE+%28ribavirin%29

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICLast updated: August 27, 2020, 19:18

GMTGraphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases:

24,524,840 view by country

Deaths:

832,900

Recovered:

16,989,280

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

WEALTH MATTERS

In Pandemic, More Are Paying for Direct Access to Their Doctors

Concierge care has grown fast as patients no longer want to sit in a waiting room with strangers. But it comes at a high price.

By Paul Sullivan Aug. 21, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/your-money/concierge-personal-medical-care-coronavirus.html

NEWS

U.S. States Where Coronavirus Cases Are Falling

BY SOO KIM ON 8/26/20 AT 1:14 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-us-covid19-cases-falling-states-pandemic-1527804?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1598495765847

World / Europe

Coronavirus cases and deaths are starting to slow in most regions, WHO data shows

The World Health Organisation said Covid-19 cases had fallen 5 per cent in the last week, and deaths had dropped by 12 per cent
The Americas are the hardest-hit by the pandemic, and reported the biggest slowdown, while India and the Eastern Mediterranean saw cases rise

Agence France-Presse Published: 9:12pm, 25 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3098825/coronavirus-cases-and-deaths-are-starting-slow-most-regions-who

Prognosis

Moderna Vaccine Produces Antibodies in Trial of Older People

By Robert LangrethAugust 26, 2020, 9:28 AM EDT Updated on August 26, 2020, 12:25 PM EDT

New data from early-stage trial presented to CDC advisors
High antibody levels to virus seen in older adults after shots

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-26/moderna-will-present-vaccine-data-in-older-people-at-cdc-meeting?srnd=coronavirus

MATTER

What if the First Coronavirus Vaccines Aren’t the Best?

Dozens of research groups around the world are playing the long game, convinced that their experimental vaccines will be cheaper and more powerful than the ones leading the race today.

By Carl Zimmer Aug. 27, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/health/covid-19-vaccines.html

Getting Children Flu Shots Is Even More Important This Year

Doctors offer advice on when and where to safely get vaccinated.

By Christina Caron Published Aug. 21, 2020 Updated Aug. 24, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/parenting/flu-shot-kids-coronavirus.html?surface=home-living-vi&fellback=false&req_id=149343743&algo=identity&imp_id=733164601

Prognosis

They Beat Covid, But Debilitating Effects and Economic Costs May Linger for Years

By Lisa Du and Suzi RingAugust 24, 2020, 5:00 PM EDT

Virus causes physical, cognitive and psychological impairment
Debilitating post-Covid effects may persist for weeks to years

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/covid-s-lingering-malaise-adds-to-35-trillion-economic-cost?srnd=premium

World

Germany’s New Coronavirus Infections Close to Four-Month High

By Andrew BlackmanAugust 25, 2020, 1:47 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-25/germany-s-new-coronavirus-infections-close-to-four-month-high?srnd=coronavirus

Prognosis

Mexico Passes Grim New Milestone With 60,000 Covid-19 Deaths

By Justin VillamilAugust 23, 2020, 12:13 PM EDT

Country has risen to third-worst in the world for deaths
WHO says low testing means the pandemic is “under-recognized”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-23/mexico-passes-grim-new-milestone-with-60-000-covid-19-deaths?srnd=coronavirus

Abbott Labs seeking to expand FDA authorization for rapid COVID test

Aug. 28, 2020 6:23 PM ET|About: Abbott Laboratories (ABT)|By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3609916-abbott-labs-seeking-to-expand-fda-authorization-for-rapid-covid-test

BioHazzard2020

NEWS

Europe Imposes Tough New Restrictions as Countries Face 'Alarming' COVID-19 Surge

ears over a second wave of the novel coronavirus in Europe remain, with at least 1,820,986 confirmed cases reported in the European Union/European Economic Area and the U.K., as of Monday, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported.

BY SOO KIM ON 8/10/20 AT 1:22 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-europe-second-wave-restrictions-mask-mandate-lockdown-1524076?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1597113199218

COVID-19 CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Last updated: August 11, 2020, 18:26 GMT

Graphs - Countries - Death Rate - Symptoms - Incubation - Transmission - News

Coronavirus Cases:

20,394,079 view by country

Deaths:

741,808

Recovered:

13,283,665 ACTIVE CASES 6,368,606 Currently Infected Patients 6,303,945 (99%)in Mild Condition
64,661 (1%)Serious or Critical
CLOSED CASES 14,025,473 Cases which had an outcome:13,283,665 (95%)Recovered / Discharged
741,808 (5%)Deaths
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ See more graphs https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

HEALTH

The Coronavirus Is Never Going Away

No matter what happens now, the virus will continue to circulate around the world.

SARAH ZHANGAUGUST 4, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/coronavirus-will-never-go-away/614860/

Florida reports record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations

Team Trump's conflicting messaging on mask led to preventable deaths, 100,000 children caught Covid-19 in July

Aug. 10, 2020, 12:46 PM EDT / Updated Aug. 10, 2020, 5:59 PM EDT

By Joe Murphy and Corky Siemaszko

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-reports-record-number-covid-19-hospitalizations-n1236286

California sorts through coronavirus data as glitch stymies policy decisions

By VICTORIA COLLIVER 08/07/2020 06:28 PM EDT OAKLAND

https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/08/07/california-sorts-through-coronavirus-data-as-glitch-stymies-policy-decisions-1305972

Inside the Fight to Save Houston’s Most Vulnerable

Our reporters and cameras were given exclusive access to the Covid medical I.C.U. at Houston Methodist Hospital. Meet five patients and watch as the staff works to heal them.

By Sheri Fink, Emily Rhyne and Erin Schaff August 10, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/10/us/houston-hospital-coronavirus.html

HEALTH AND SCIENCE

Putin claims Russia has registered the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, says his daughter has taken it

PUBLISHED TUE, AUG 11 20205:12 AM EDTUPDATED 13 MIN AGOHolly Ellyatt@HOLLYELLYATT
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/11/russia-claims-to-have-registered-first-coronavirus-vaccine.html

Russia Approves Coronavirus Vaccine Before Completing Tests

The country became the first in the world to approve a possible vaccine against the virus, despite warnings from the global authorities against cutting corners.

By Andrew E. Kramer Aug. 11, 2020Updated 6:06 p.m. ET MOSCOW

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/world/europe/russia-coronavirus-vaccine-approval.html

Genetic study suggests that people’s blood type may affect their COVID-19 risk

People with type A blood may have higher risk of severe illness, while those with type O may have lower risk

by Alla Katsnelson, special to C&EN

JUNE 11, 2020 | APPEARED IN VOLUME 98, ISSUE 23

https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/Genetic-study-suggests-peoples-blood/98/i23?utm_source=mostread&utm_medium=mostread&utm_campaign=CEN

Coronavirus Vaccine Tracker

By Jonathan Corum, Denise Grady, Sui-Lee Wee and Carl ZimmerUpdated August 11, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-vaccine-tracker.html

161,000 Missing Deaths:
Tracking the True Toll of the Coronavirus Outbreak

By Jin Wu, Allison McCann, Josh Katz and Elian PeltierUpdated July 31, 2020, 6 A.M. E.T.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html

31 JULY 2020

China’s coronavirus vaccines are leaping ahead – but face challenges as virus wanes

Companies could struggle to enrol enough trial participants, or gather enough data to convince regulatory agencies that the shots work.

David Cyranosk

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02244-1

China / Society

Explainer | How do vaccines and immune systems work, and why could a coronavirus vaccine fail?

Six vaccine candidates have reached phase 3 human trials, but it is not uncommon for vaccines to fall at this final hurdle
The success of vaccines also comes down to what we expect from them and how long immunity lasts

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 11:00am, 11 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3096808/how-do-vaccines-and-immune-systems-work-and-why-could

Prognosis

Sweden’s Prime Minister Says Crisis Has Changed Society Forever

By Rafaela LindebergAugust 23, 2020, 10:17 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-23/sweden-s-prime-minister-says-crisis-has-changed-society-forever?srnd=coronavirus

India coronavirus: Covid strikes remote Greater Andamanese tribe

By Soutik Biswas
India correspondent

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53925071

Coronavirus: How are other countries getting children back to class?

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-53892357

France Covid-19: Mask rule for Parisians amid 'undeniable surge'

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53934952

Coronavirus: How will the world vaccinate seven billion?

By Naomi GrimleyGlobal affairs correspondent

13 August 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53741966

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Coronavirus: Hong Kong records 13 new Covid-19 cases as health authorities set up more than 100 booths for mass testing

Online registration for the universal screening begins from 7am on Saturday, as ministers Patrick Nip and Sophia Chan urge all to take part in the scheme
Two more patients – aged 76 and 91 – died on Friday, taking the city’s tally of virus-related fatalities to 83

Victor Ting Published: 12:52pm, 28 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3099212/coronavirus-health-authorities-set-more-100-mass

Prognosis

Hong Kong’s Free Virus Tests for All Is an Experiment in Trust

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-27/hong-kong-s-free-virus-tests-for-all-is-an-experiment-in-trust?srnd=premium

Prognosis

How Much Do You Really Know About Coronavirus?

Should you wear a face mask? How far apart should you keep from others? Put your Covid-19 knowledge to the test.

By Jason Gale

July 17, 2020, 10:00 AM

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has sickened millions of people worldwide, causing the most destructive pandemic in more than a century. It’s overwhelmed health systems, caused mayhem on financial markets and led to a global economic malaise and a surfeit of misinformation.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2020-coronavirus-quiz-update/?srnd=coronavirus

Prognosis

France Tightens Mask Protocols Amid Gain in Virus Infections

By Ania NussbaumAugust 30, 2020, 11:18 AM EDT Updated on August 30, 2020, 1:26 PM EDT

Masks will be mandatory for many companies from Tuesday
Virus spike hasn’t translated to hospitalizations and deaths

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-30/france-tightens-mask-protocols-after-surge-in-virus-infections?srnd=coronavirus

Coronavirus: Why Spain is seeing second wave

By James BadcockMadrid 21 August 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53832981

COVID-19

You asked, we’re answering: Your top coronavirus questions

By CNN's Holly Yan and Scottie Andrew
CNN’s Melissa Mahtani and Harmeet Kaur contributed to this report.Updated August 25, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/health/coronavirus-questions-answers/#if-a-pregnant-woman-gets-covid-19-will-her-baby-be-infected-can-babies-get-coronavirus-through-breastfeeding

How the Pandemic Defeated America

A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

This article appears in the September 2020 print edition with the headline “Anatomy of an American Failure.”

ED YONG

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

Medical Dispatch

Fighting the Coronavirus, from New York to Utah

They volunteered during the New York City surge—then returned home to watch the virus come to them.

By Dhruv Khullar

August 2, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/fighting-the-coronavirus-from-new-york-to-utah

World / United States & Canada

Worldwide coronavirus cases hit 20 million

It took about six months to reach 10 million infections, but just 43 days to double that tally
US, Brazil and India account for more than half of known cases

Reuters Published: 8:03am, 11 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096831/worldwide-coronavirus-cases-hit-20-million

Prognosis

Covid Returns to New Zealand After 102 Days, Sparking Lockdown

By Matthew Brockett and Tracy WithersAugust 11, 2020, 5:33 AM EDT Updated on August 11, 2020, 7:15 AM EDT

Prime Minister announces first local cases in 102 days
Four cases detected in an Auckland household, Ardern says

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/new-zealand-reports-first-local-covid-19-cases-in-102-days?srnd=premium

Asia / East Asia

Coronavirus latest: Japan hits 50,000 cases; Vietnam’s Da Nang cluster grows

It took Japan just one week to go from 40,000 to 50,000 infections
Meanwhile, Vietnam’s Da Nang cluster is growing; while a lockdown in Australia’s Melbourne seems to be having an effect, its premier says

Agencies Published: 8:29pm, 10 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/3096791/coronavirus-latest-japan-hits-50000-cases-vietnams-da-nang

Nearly 100,000 U.S. children test positive for coronavirus in two-week span

By Antonia Noori Farzan, Rick Noack, Siobhán O'Grady, Brittany Shammas, Hannah Knowles, Kim Bellware and Hamza Shaban

August 10, 2020 at 6:17 p.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/10/coronavirus-covid-live-updates-us/

Prognosis

Most Americans Won’t Be Able to Get a Coronavirus Vaccine Until Well Into 2021

The first doses will likely be reserved for health workers and others at high risk

By Anna Edney, Josh Wingrove, and Robert LangrethAugust 10, 2020, 4:37 PM EDT Updated on August 10, 2020, 6:25 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-10/most-americans-won-t-be-able-to-get-a-coronavirus-vaccine-until-well-into-2021?srnd=premium

Prognosis

U.S. Cases Increase 0.9%; Hospitals Get Respite: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 9, 2020, 6:15 PM EDT Updated on August 10, 2020, 5:53 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-09/texas-positive-tests-up-alert-on-u-s-rural-areas-virus-update

AUGUST 3, 2020 / 7:10 PM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO

Regeneron says antibody cocktail prevents and treats COVID-19 in animals

Michael Erman (Reuters) - Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc

https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN24Z2S3

Developing REGN-COV2

A Novel Anti-Viral Antibody Cocktail

https://www.regeneron.com/covid19

Opinion

‘If I Hadn’t Been Transferred, I Would Have Died’

Conversations about death from Covid-19 revolve around patient characteristics. But hospitals matter, too.

By Daniela J. Lamas Dr. Lamas is a critical care doctor. Aug. 4, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/opinion/covid-rural-hospitals.html

HEALTH COVID-19

AS CORONAVIRUS CONTINUES TO SPREAD IN THE U.S., THE CLINICAL TRIALS CANCER PATIENTS RELY ON ARE DISAPPEARING

As Coronavirus Continues to Spread in the U.S., the Clinical Trials Cancer Patients Rely on Are Disappearing

BY ALICE PARK JULY 23, 2020 6:06 AM EDT

https://time.com/5870461/cancer-clinical-trials-coronavirus/

World / United States & Canada

Coronavirus: US announces major clinical trial of antibody treatment

The trial will initially enrol some 300 volunteers who have all had the virus
The treatment has been developed by US-based Lilly Research Laboratories in partnership with Abcellera

Agence France-Presse Published: 3:22am, 5 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096051/us-announces-major-clinical-trial-coronavirus

HEALTH

The Pandemic Experts Are Not Okay

Many American public-health specialists are at risk of burning out as the coronavirus surges back.

ED YONGJULY 7, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/07/pandemic-experts-are-not-okay/613879/

CORONAVIRUS

Could massive numbers of nursing home deaths have been prevented?

One system — California’s Veterans Affairs Department — has dramatically reduced death rates through organization, access to PPE and full staffing.

By MAGGIE SEVERNS 08/10/2020 07:55 PM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/10/could-nursing-home-deaths-be-prevented-393131

Opinion

David Luna

How Covid-19 is proving a boon for criminal networks’ illicit trade, endangering international security

As the pandemic forces more people to go online for their needs, the black market trade – particularly in drugs, alcohol and tobacco – has boomed, causing untold harm to consumers and losing governments millions in critical revenue

David Luna Published: 3:30am, 12 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3096796/how-covid-19-proving-boon-criminal-networks-illicit-trade

U.S.

FDA Announces New Deadly Toxin Found in Hand Sanitizers, Adding to Recalls

BY SCOTT MCDONALD ON 8/12/20 AT 7:52 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/fda-announces-new-deadly-toxin-found-hand-sanitizers-adding-recalls-1524759?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1597326021267

FDA updates on hand sanitizers consumers should not use

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-updates-hand-sanitizers-consumers-should-not-use

8/12/2020: UPDATE - FDA expands hand sanitizer warnings to include 1-propanol contamination

NEWS

Coronavirus Cases at McDonald's, Taco Bell, Among 80 'Active Workplace Outbreaks' in Oregon

BY SOO KIM ON 8/13/20 AT 6:07 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-us-oregon-outbreak-mcdonalds-taco-bell-walmart-1524828

This Week in Asia / Explained

Explainer | How is India fighting the coronavirus and what about its vaccine?

India has the world’s third-highest number of Covid-19 cases and fourth-highest death toll, overtaking Britain
Five ministers in Narendra Modi’s cabinet have the virus and experts predict a long battle ahead even as vaccine trials continue

Vasudevan Sridharan Published: 9:15pm, 13 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/explained/article/3097265/cases-soar-how-bad-indias-coronavirus-situation

Aug 13, 2020 08:03 PMBUSINESS & TECH

Vaccine-Maker CanSino’s Stock Jumps Nearly 88% in STAR Market Debut

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-08-13/vaccine-maker-cansinos-stock-jumps-nearly-88-in-star-market-debut-101592419.html

World / United States & Canada

Nations brace for new coronavirus outbreaks as global death toll nears 750,000

United States leads world with number of reported cases and deaths
Nations such as Germany see infections jump amid concerning trend

Agencies Published: 6:23pm, 12 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3097110/nations-brace-new-coronavirus-outbreaks-global

World / United States & Canada

Coronavirus vaccine pre-orders top 5 billion in worldwide scramble for supplies

From Japan to Brazil, nations move to secure vaccines, while Russia claims world first with Sputnik V
Trump announces US$1.5 billion deal with Moderna for 100 million doses

Agence France-Presse Published: 1:58am, 12 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3096986/coronavirus-vaccine-pre-orders-top-5-billion

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Research

Looking beyond COVID-19's spike protein for the next wave of vaccines

by Angus Liu | Jul 30, 2020 7:40am

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/research/inducing-t-cell-response-outside-spike-protein-for-new-covid-19-vaccines

Do some people have protection against the coronavirus?

By Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Andrea Kane, CNN

Updated 6:28 AM ET, Sun August 2, 2020

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/02/health/gupta-coronavirus-t-cell-cross-reactivity-immunity-wellness/index.html

Vaccine companies searching for 1-shot dose of COVID-19 vaccine

The race to develop a vaccine could include two types of doses.

ByDr. Laith Alexander andSony SalzmanAugust 1, 2020, 2:42 AM

When it comes to vaccines, experts agree that a hassle-free single shot is always preferred over a two-shot vaccine requiring multiple trips to the doctors' office.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/vaccine-companies-searching-shot-dose-covid-19-vaccine/story?id=72053977

Business

Japan Acted Like the Virus Had Gone. Now It’s Spread Everywhere.

By Lisa Du and Rie MoritaJuly 31, 2020, 7:00 PM EDT

After first wave, Japan re-opened quickly, urged travel
Focus on economic recovery over infection control blamed

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-31/japan-acted-like-the-virus-had-gone-now-it-s-spread-everywhere?srnd=premium

Medical Dispatch

Fighting the Coronavirus, from New York to Utah

They volunteered during the New York City surge—then returned home to watch the virus come to them.

By Dhruv Khullar August 2, 2020

Half a year into the American pandemic, this sort of infighting has become a predictable consequence of our fragmented, leave-it-to-the-states approach. The federal government has abdicated its role in leading the nation’s coronavirus-response efforts, in terms of testing, tracing, communications, and equipment production and distribution. Each state must fend and decide for itself, engaging in its own high-stakes calculus, following or ignoring public-health guidance as it sees fit. State by state, we re-litigate the basics of the pandemic response. Collective, coördinated action—a communal reaction to the deaths of our neighbors—seems beyond us.

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/fighting-the-coronavirus-from-new-york-to-utah

Coronavirus Live Updates: As Cases Surge, U.S. Officials Are at an Impasse Over Aid

Florida faces hurricane season. The virus is picking up speed in the Midwest, and in other states that thought they had already seen the worst of it. India’s home minister tests positive.

Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the Trump administration’s coronavirus coordinator, recommended that Americans in areas where cases are surging consider wearing masks at home if they live with a person who is especially vulnerable to the virus.

Here’s what you need to know:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html

Prognosis

U.S. New Cases Slow; Pelosi Sees Birx Compromised: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 1, 2020, 7:14 PM EDT Updated on August 2, 2020, 2:29 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-01/california-cases-top-500-000-florida-storm-threat-virus-update?srnd=premium

World / United States & Canada

Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus

The US House Speaker said she does not have confidence in coronavirus task force coordinator Deborah Birx, as she was appointed by Donald Trump
But Birx said she has ‘tremendous respect’ for Pelosi, while urging precautions against Covid-19 as it became ‘extraordinarily widespread’

POLITICO Published: 12:00am, 3 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3095723/pelosi-accuses-trump-birx-spreading-misinformation

CONGRESS

Pelosi accuses Trump, Birx of spreading misinformation about coronavirus

House speaker says she does not have confidence in the coronavirus task force coordinator

By ALLIE BICE 08/02/2020 10:05 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/02/pelosi-birx-trump-coronavirus-misinformation-390422

U.S.

Trump Calls Birx 'Pathetic' Hours After Pelosi Rips Her for 'Enabling' President's Alleged COVID Disinformation

BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 8/3/20 AT 2:07 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-calls-birx-pathetic-hours-after-pelosi-rips-her-enabling-presidents-alleged-covid-1522486?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1596494068216

Trump Administration Official Breaks With President: 'Hydroxychloroquine, I Can't Recommend That'

BY JASON LEMON ON 8/2/20 AT 1:31 PM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-official-breaks-president-hydroxychloroquine-i-cant-recommend-that-1522245?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1596407365202

HEALTH

Fauci Doubts Russia Has Proven Its Coronavirus Vaccine Is Safe and Effective

BY KASHMIRA GANDER ON 8/3/20 AT 5:05 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/fauci-russia-coronavirus-vaccine-safe-effective-1522270?utm_source=pushnami&utm_medium=Push_Notifications&utm_campaign=automatic&UTM=1596460499275

Russia Sets Mass Vaccination for October After Shortened Trial

The announcement raised concerns that Russia would begin inoculations and declare victory in the race for a coronavirus vaccine without fully testing its product.

By Andrew E. Kramer Aug. 2, 2020 MOSCOW —

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/02/world/europe/russia-trials-vaccine-October.html

CORONAVIRUS

Trump blasts Birx after she warns coronavirus pandemic is 'extraordinarily widespread'

Trump’s attack comes after top White House officials admonished House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for undermining trust in Birx.

By MAX COHEN 08/03/2020 10:37 AM EDT

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/03/trump-blasts-birx-after-coronavirus-claims-390881

Technology & Ideas

Vaccine Confronts Humanity With Next Moral Test

Who gets coronavirus protection first (and last)? Who profits (and loses)? What is “informed consent” (if it exists)? Divided societies face agonizing choices.

Hippocratic oath to “do no harm.” Virtuous ends do not justify unethical means.

By John AuthersAugust 2, 2020, 12:01 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-02/coronavirus-vaccine-confronts-humanity-with-next-moral-test-kdck4x2j?srnd=premium

Prognosis

N.J. Tightens Indoor Limits; NYC Street Dining: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 2, 2020, 5:14 PM EDT Updated on August 3, 2020, 1:17 PM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-02/california-cases-accelerate-birx-sees-new-phase-virus-update?srnd=premium

Opinion

The Right Way to Get a Vaccine at ‘Warp Speed’

Scientists need to show us the data. And that’s exactly what they’re working on.

By Natalie Dean =Dr. Dean is an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Florida.

Aug. 3, 2020, 5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-efficacy-trials.html

Bill Gates talks to Gavi about its past, present and future

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/bill-gates-vaccine-interview

Coronavirus: Iran cover-up of deaths revealed by data leak

3 August 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53598965

Technology & Ideas

Good Covid-19 News From Italy...and Sweden

The countries' policies for taming the outbreak couldn't have been more different, but their current success in avoiding a resurgence should be heeded.

By Lionel LaurentAugust 4, 2020, 1:38 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-04/italy-and-sweden-are-taming-the-coronavirus-s-potential-second-wave?srnd=premium

BioHazard2020 = Covid-19 -SARS-CoV2 Updates

On August 1, 2020 I started the third full page of information and updates on Covid-19/SARS CoV2.

I never thought that this www.BioHazard2020.com would result in a third full page, but it does.

My first virus posting on this site was on January 11, 2020 ( https://seekingbiotechalpha.com/2020-1 ) =

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3045750/wuhan-pneumonia-hong-kong-set-develop-new-test and https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-01-11/first-death-from-new-sars-like-virus-reported-in-central-chinas-wuhan-101503267.html

https://www.caixinglobal.com/2020-01-09/new-virus-in-sars-family-may-be-cause-of-pneumonia-outbreak-101502535.html

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Vaccines may arrive in record time, but the virus has been faster

BY Alvin Powell Harvard Staff Writer DATE July 28, 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/vaccines-may-arrive-in-record-time-but-the-virus-has-been-faster/

Prognosis

U.S. New Cases Slow; Birx Warns Virus ‘Widespread’: Virus Update

Bloomberg NewsAugust 1, 2020, 7:14 PM EDT Updated on August 2, 2020, 10:11 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-01/california-cases-top-500-000-florida-storm-threat-virus-update?srnd=premium

California becomes first state to hit half a million coronavirus cases

BY LI COHEN AUGUST 1, 2020 / 12:03 AM / CBS NEWS

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-becomes-first-state-to-hit-half-a-million-coronavirus-cases/

U.S.

Nearly Half of Florida's Coronavirus Deaths Happened in July, and the State's Still Breaking Case Records

BY MATTHEW IMPELLI ON 7/31/20 AT 10:17 AM EDT

https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-half-floridas-coronavirus-deaths-happened-july-states-still-breaking-case-records-1521982

Mapping the Coronavirus Outbreak Across the World

Updated: August 1, 2020, 11:35 AM EDT

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-cases-world-map/?srnd=premium

After Plummeting, the Virus Soars Back in the Midwest

States like Missouri, Illinois and Wisconsin are riding a frustrating seesaw during the pandemic, with new coronavirus cases rising again after apparent progress.

By Julie Bosman, Manny Fernandez and Thomas Fuller Aug. 1, 2020 Updated 1:54 p.m. ET CHICAGO —

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/01/us/coronavirus-midwest-cases-deaths.html

HEALTH & MEDICINE ‘Before a tsunami hits’

BY lan Mochari, Namrata Sengupta, Kelsey Tsipis Broad Institute Communications DATE July 17, 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/lessons-from-a-pandemic/

HEALTH & MEDICINE How COVID-19 causes smell loss

BY Kevin Jiang HMS Communications DATE July 24, 2020

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/07/how-to-understand-covid-19-related-loss-of-smell/

The Coronavirus Infected Hundreds at a Georgia Summer Camp

The camp took precautions but did not require campers to wear masks, the C.D.C. reported. Singing and cheering may have helped spread the virus.

By Roni Caryn Rabin July 31, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/health/coronavirus-children-camp.html

China / Society

What are coronavirus risks from riding trains? A new Chinese study analyses passenger data

Passengers in seats directly adjacent to an infected person suffered the highest level of risk of transmission, researchers find
Using a seat previously occupied by someone who has tested positive apparently does not pose much risk

Zhuang Pinghui in Beijing Published: 12:00pm, 1 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3095617/what-are-coronavirus-risks-riding-trains-new-chinese-study

This Week in Asia / Health & Environment

Duterte asks Filipinos to ‘endure’ coronavirus curbs until December, pins hopes on China vaccine

The Philippines recorded 4,063 new cases on Friday, bringing infections to 93,354 as lockdown restrictions extended in Metro Manila
Vice-President Leni Robredo criticised the president’s reliance on a Chinese vaccine, saying more needed to be done to stem the spread of the virus

Raissa Robles Published: 8:00pm, 31 Jul, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/health-environment/article/3095552/duterte-asks-filipinos-endure-coronavirus-curbs-until

How the Pandemic Defeated America

A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees.

ED YONG

This article appears in the September 2020 print edition with the headline “Anatomy of an American Failure.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/

News Desk

The Uncertainties Facing New York City’s Young Essential Workers

By Alexis Okeowo

August 3, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uncertainties-facing-new-york-citys-young-essential-workers

World

Coronavirus cases worldwide pass 18 million as hard-hit US enters ‘new phase’

Fresh clusters reported in countries that previously brought their outbreaks under control
The coronavirus pandemic’s rate of infection continues to accelerate

Agencies

Published: 10:48am, 3 Aug, 2020
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/3095745/coronavirus-cases-worldwide-pass-18-million

China / Society

Coronavirus: WHO team lays groundwork in China for investigation into animal source

Two-person team held ‘extensive discussions … and received updates on epidemiological studies, biologic and genetic analyses’, UN agency says
Announcement comes after emergency committee for Covid-19 calls for detailed investigation to start as soon as possible

Linda Lew Published: 7:00pm, 2 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3095706/coronavirus-who-team-lays-groundwork-china-investigation-animal

China / Science

WHO still dogged by critics, six months after declaring coronavirus emergency

Some argue countries’ ability to respond to the virus was impeded by the WHO being too slow to declare a public health emergency and a pandemic
The organisation has also been accused of being too late with its advice about masks and human-to-human transmission

Linda Lew Published: 12:00pm, 30 Jul, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3095221/who-still-dogged-critics-six-months-after-declaring-coronavirus

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Hong Kong third wave: plans for at least two temporary coronavirus hospitals and expanded makeshift facilities will boost capacity by 2,400 beds

Mainland Chinese experts deployed to the city will also aid in coronavirus testing capacity
Temporary hospitals will be used to treat patients in more serious condition, with one to be built near AsiaWorld-Expo, source says

Lilian Cheng and Gary Cheung Published: 10:22pm, 3 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3095878/hong-kong-third-wave-plans-least-two-temporary

Hong Kong / Health & Environment

Coronavirus: 87 per cent of Hong Kong employees suffering work stress during Covid-19 pandemic, survey finds

About half of employees surveyed in the study designed by the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong also reported symptoms of anxiety disorder
Worst-affected staff work in the tourism, medical and catering industries, those bearing the brunt of the public health crisis

Ng Kang-chung Published: 10:21pm, 2 Aug, 2020

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3095716/coronavirus-87-cent-hong-kong-employees-suffering

Coronavirus Live Updates: Fauci Supports Birx’s Assessment After Trump Criticizes Her

Some U.S. schools begin to reopen with fraught results. With a focus on the coronavirus, other deadly diseases are making a comeback.

In a change for the White House, officials there have been told they will be randomly screened for the coronavirus starting Monday, according to a person who received the email.

Here’s what you need to know:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html

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BioNTech Recruits Rivals to Boost Covid-19 Vaccine Production

German company enlists other firms as its partner, Pfizer, struggles to meet production targets

Immunity passports can speed up return to normality | COVID-19 Special

'Vaccine diplomacy': How China is capitalizing on the COVID crisis

Coronavirus: Chile overtakes Israel as fastest country to vaccinate

Chile vaccinating its population at a rate that beats other countries Thursday marks first anniversary of WHO’s declaration of pandemic

Has the COVID-19 pandemic increased inequality against women? | COVID-19 Special

Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine neutralizes Brazil variant in lab study

Those We’ve Lost

German government loses support on coronavirus policies +++ US ramps up vaccination drive | DW News

‘Chinese virus, get out!’: lecturer from China beaten in Britain amid spike in hate crimes

Peng Wang, who teaches at the University of Southampton, suffered face and arm injuries after being beaten by four men while jogging near his home Reports of race crime against people of East Asian appearance in Britain have soared in the past year

WSJ Investigation: As Workers Faced Covid Risks, OSHA Fell Short of Its Mission | WSJ

How the different Covid vaccines will handle new variants of the virus

U.S. Government Scientists Skeptical of One-Shot Regimen for Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines

Some members of Congress have urged to allow for just one dose to speed up vaccinations

What You Can and Can’t Do if You’ve Been Vaccinated: Travel, Gatherings, Risk Factors, What You Need to Know

Until we reach herd immunity, vaccinated people must navigate some complicated decision-making. Here’s how to assess the risks.

Number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States as of March 4, 2021, by state

How the Novavax coronavirus vaccine uses moth cells

Did coronavirus jump to humans through trade in exotic animals in China? | COVID-19 Special

WHO Investigators to Scrap Plans for Interim Report on Probe of Covid-19 Origins

U.S-China tensions rise over investigation as group of scientists presses for fresh inquiry, including into lab escape theory

Largest Vaccine Maker Warns of Delays as U.S. Prioritizes Pfizer

Comparing Johnson & Johnson Vaccine to Pfizer And Moderna | NBC News NOW

Bergamo, where the horrors of COVID-19 in Europe started | DW News

Exclusive: Oxford study indicates AstraZeneca effective against Brazil variant, source says

India-EU push to temporarily ban vaccine patents | Coronavirus Vaccine | Latest English News | WION

Europe fears creating COVID-19 vaccine passports could lead to discrimination, division

If you’ve hit a pandemic ‘wall,’ you’re not alone. Here’s how to cope. | Expert Opinion

Covid: Germany approves AstraZeneca vaccine for over-65s

Covid19 UK: What impact will the Brazil variant have? - BBC Newsnight

Virus Transmission Levels by County in Pa.

COVID-19 Early Warning Monitoring System Dashboard

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Brazilian Covid strain found in UK raising fears over vaccine protection - BBC News

Chile vaccinating its population at a rate that beats other countries
Thursday marks first anniversary of WHO’s declaration of pandemic

Peng Wang, who teaches at the University of Southampton, suffered face and arm injuries after being beaten by four men while jogging near his home
Reports of race crime against people of East Asian appearance in Britain have soared in the past year