#1M NYC residents will get COVID vaccine in January

#1M NYC residents will get COVID vaccine in January

“#1M NYC residents will get COVID vaccine in January” One million New York City residents will receive the coronavirus vaccine in the first month of 2021, Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a New Year’s Eve pledge. “We’re going to vaccinate 1 million New Yorkers in January,” the mayor told CNN. It’s an ambitious New…

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#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine

“#China greenlights first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine” Chinese health regulators said Thursday that they have given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The two-dose vaccine is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes as the country has begun to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year…

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#’Dancing nurse’ who cheered patients with moves has COVID-19

#’Dancing nurse’ who cheered patients with moves has COVID-19

“#’Dancing nurse’ who cheered patients with moves has COVID-19” A woman who earned the nickname the “Dancing Nurse” for cheering her COVID-19 patients with her moves while volunteering across the country has contracted the virus. Registered nurse Ana Wilkinson, who had been treating coronavirus-stricken patients in New York and most recently in Texas, wrote on…

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#Letters to the editor — Dec. 31, 2020

#Letters to the editor — Dec. 31, 2020

“#Letters to the editor — Dec. 31, 2020” The Issue: Sen. Kamala Harris and other politicians receiving the COVID vaccine before the elderly. Again, we are made aware of the class differential between we common mortals and the political class (“Congress vax vex,” Dec. 30). The people who have not missed one paycheck now jump…

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#Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

#Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine

“#Britain first to approve AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine” LONDON — Britain on Wednesday became the first country in the world to approve a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca as it battles a major winter surge driven by a new, highly contagious variant of the virus. AstraZeneca said the authorization was for a two…

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