‘Stock up’, China says, amid new COVID outbreak

China’s government has urged citizens to stock up on daily necessities and for authorities to take steps to ensure adequate food supplies as the country adopts increasingly tight measures to contain its latest COVID outbreak. A notice posted on the website of the Ministry of Commerce late on Monday urged “families to store a certain […]

FDA panel takes up tough questions on J&J COVID-19 boosters

U.S. health advisers on Friday tackled who should get boosters of Johnson & Johnson’s single-shot COVID-19 vaccine and when—and whether using a competing brand for the second dose might provide better protection. The push for boosters kicked off last month after the Food and Drug Administration authorized third doses of the Pfizer vaccine for seniors […]

China steps up port, driver checks after new virus cases

Roadblocks were set up to check drivers and a disease-control official called Thursday for increased testing of workers at Chinese ports after a rash of coronavirus cases traced to a major airport rattled authorities who thought they had the disease under control. The 171 new cases of the more contagious delta variant in the eastern […]

Kids 5 and up get shots in tests for COVID vaccine

Seven-year-old Russell Bright squeezed his dad’s hand tightly as tests of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine started Monday in Louisiana for children ages 5 through 11. Children held stuffed animals, played under chairs and a few cried at Ochsner Medical Center, just outside New Orleans. Their temperature and blood pressure were checked, their noses swabbed and their […]

Lonza to up Moderna Covid jab output with Dutch production line

Swiss firm Lonza said Wednesday it will open a new production line for the drug substance in Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it possible to churn out hundreds of millions more jabs per year. The new line will be set up at Lonza’s site in Geleen, Netherlands, and is expected to begin production by the end […]

Australian woman wakes up with Irish accent after throat surgery

Fox News Flash top headlines for May 14 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Luck of the Aussie? An Australian woman has gone viral on TikTok after claiming that she woke up with an Irish accent following tonsil surgery. Angela Yen, 27, had a tonsillectomy on April 19 […]

This Australian Woman Woke Up With an Entirely New Accent After Tonsil Surgery

An Australian woman has gone viral on TikTok after waking up from tonsil surgery with an Irish accent—even though she's never been to the country. Angie Yen, whose TikTok bio reads, "Documenting my journey after waking up with an Irish accent on 4/28/21," details in her first post that she woke up after her tonsillectomy […]

Hospitalized shift workers up to 3 times more likely to be COVID-19 positive

People who work shifts appear to be significantly more likely to end up in hospital with COVID-19 than people who have regular work patterns, suggests research published online in the journal Thorax. Researchers found that shift working could be just as important a risk factor as already known high risk features such as ethnicity and […]

US setting up $1.7B national network to track virus variants

The U.S. is setting up a $1.7 billion national network to identify and track worrisome coronavirus mutations whose spread could trigger another pandemic wave, the Biden administration announced Friday. White House officials unveiled a strategy that features three components: a major funding boost for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health departments […]