Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Face masks will soon be required in public outdoor settings in Oregon, Gov. Kate Brown announced this week. The rule, which takes effect on Friday, will apply to anyone attending a crowded outdoor event, regardless of vaccination status. Her decision was […]
The global outbreak of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has led to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As of August 25, 2021, SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 214 million and claimed the lives of more than 4.4 million worldwide. Several COVID-19 vaccines have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from various global regulatory […]
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said on Wednesday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker holding a rose is vaccinated against COVID-19 at a medical centre […]
Therapies to counteract the damage caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been few and far between, despite efforts to discover new drugs and repurpose already approved drugs that may target the viral proteins. Without effective therapeutics, clinicians have extended their search into areas of plant-derived compounds. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Johnson County High School teacher Michael Caneege teaches anatomy to his students online in Wrightsville, Ga. ATLANTA (AP) — A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models […]
(Reuters) -The U.S. drug regulator on Monday granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine – the first to secure such Food and Drug Administration validation – prompting President Joe Biden to make a fresh pitch to vaccine skeptics to get the shot to fight the relentless pandemic. The FDA, which gave the […]
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s drug regulator granted emergency approval for its homegrown Soberana 2 vaccine on Friday, allowing the drug’s full inclusion in the country’s inoculation program as it races to curb a Delta variant-fueled coronavirus outbreak here.FILE PHOTO: A nurse shows a dose of the Soberana-02 COVID-19 vaccine to be used in a volunteer […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — Tourists and servers alike dance atop tables and in the aisles at one restaurant on the “Redneck Riviera,” a beloved stretch of towns along the northern Gulf Coast where beaches, bars and stores are packed. Yet […]
FILE PHOTO: People walk past a sign for a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination clinic in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 17, 2021. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson(Reuters) – The United States has administered 358,599,835 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the country as of Wednesday morning and distributed 419,612,925 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – All healthcare workers in New York state must be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a medical or religious exemption, Governor Andrew Cuomo said in a new mandate issued on Monday. They must have received at least one dose of a vaccine by Sept. 27, he said in a statement. Cuomo […]
