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Category: Covid
Sandra Lindsay, First to Get U.S. COVID Vaccine, Travels to Jamaica on Mission – NBC New York
February marks Black History Month, a time to pay tribute to those Black and Afro-Latinx who broke boundaries and continue to make history. Long Island critical care nurse Sandra Lindsay…
China’s approves homegrown oral covid drugs VV116, xiannuoxin
In the heated race to develop covid antiviral pills, a Chinese biopharma firm tweaked a technology patented by the US drug giant Gilead—and then handily beat Gilead to the market.…
A Mental Health Startup Unionizes; Plus, Covid Emergency To End In May
InnovationRx is your weekly digest of healthcare news. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. getty Therapists at mental health startup Resilience Lab voted to unionize on Wednesday, one…
House passes bill to end COVID-19 national emergency
The Republican-controlled House on Wednesday passed a bill that would immediately end the COVID-19 national emergency first declared in March 2020, brushing aside the Biden administration’s announcement that the declaration…
Draft WHO pandemic deal pushes for equity to avoid COVID ‘failure’ repeat
LONDON/GENEVA, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Governments may have to reserve drugs and vaccines for the World Health Organization to distribute in poorer countries to avoid a repeat of the “catastrophic…
Covid Vaccine Makers Kept Prepayments for Canceled Shots for Poor Nations
As global demand for Covid-19 vaccines dries up, the program responsible for vaccinating the world’s poor has been urgently negotiating to try to get out of its deals with pharmaceutical…
Biden finally pulls the plug on COVID state of emergency
In the course of taping an interview with “60 Minutes” last September, President Biden strolled through the Detroit Auto Show with CBS newsman Scott Pelley. Noting that it was the…
For GOP base, battles over covid vaccines and closures still resonate
Comment on this story Comment For many Americans, the relentless focus on covid seems largely a thing of the past: Far fewer are wearing masks, businesses and schools are mostly…
Opinion | Biden is right to end the national emergency for covid-19
Comment on this story Comment More than three years after the first case of covid-19 was diagnosed in the United States, President Biden announced on Monday that the national emergency…