Biden to unveil national COVID strategy

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Washington — President Joe Biden will sign 10 executive orders Thursday as part of his strategy to combat COVID-19, which has now claimed 400,000 American lives. In a conference call with reporters, Mr. Biden’s COVID response coordinator Jeffrey Zients and members of the White More...

New York City temporarily closing vaccination sites due to lack of supply from federal government
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); New York City has been forced to temporarily close its COVID-19 vaccination hubs due to a lack of supply from the federal government, city officials More...

COVID-19 vaccine rollouts are lagging. Here’s what states are doing to pick up the pace
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A growing number of states that have struggled to speedily distribute the COVID-19 vaccine are enlisting the National Guard for help. Washington More...

Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman offers words of hope amid pandemic
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Amanda Gorman, the U.S.’s inaugural youth poet laureate, is offering Americans some words of inspiration to help get through More...

Should COVID-19 vaccination give people the “basic rights” to avoid lockdown restrictions?
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Berlin — Germany’s Foreign Minister wants people who’ve had a full two doses of coronavirus vaccine to be exempted from lockdown More...

Doubling up on masks adds to “obstacle course” for COVID particles, research shows
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Health experts saying wearing a mask provides protection against COVID-19 both for the person wearing it and those around them. Now, reports CBS More...

Study provides more evidence that U.K. COVID variant won’t “escape” Pfizer’s vaccine
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); New research published on Tuesday by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech provides further evidence that their COVID-19 vaccine should be effective More...

Newly identified COVID-19 strain in Los Angeles could be driving region’s virus surge, study suggests
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A newly identified strain of the coronavirus prevalent in Southern California could be contributing to the drastic spike in cases in the region, More...

New York City set to run out of COVID-19 vaccine within days, Mayor de Blasio says
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); New York City is on track to run out of COVID-19 vaccine doses in the next few days, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday. According to de Blasio, More...

U.S. races to distribute vaccine as new COVID-19 strains spread
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As the U.S marks the deaths of more than 400,000 Americans from COVID-19, mutations of the virus are rapidly popping up across the country. So far, More...