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2 Big Finds on the Pfizer Vaccine Front

One dose is effective, and the vaccine can be stored in ordinary freezers

(Newser) - A new study has produced two big finds that could have wide-ranging implications for coronavirus vaccine distribution and storage. Per the Wall Street Journal , the peer-reviewed research out of Israel published Thursday in the Lancet shows that just one shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 85% effective at stopping symptomatic...

Florida Women Dress Up as 'Grannies' to Get Vaccine

They turned out to be 35 and 44 years old

(Newser) - Impersonating a grandmother isn't just for big, bad wolves anymore. Officials in Orange County, Florida, say two women dressed up as "grannies"—with bonnets, glasses, and gloves—to try to get their second dose of coronavirus vaccine. Orange County Health Officer Dr. Raul Pino tells WFTV that...

Tourists Accused of Trying to Bribe Their Way Into Hawaii

Louisiana couple didn't have negative COVID tests

(Newser) - If you're interested in visiting the Aloha State, you'll have to be OK with a 10-day quarantine when you first arrive, unless you've got COVID test results in hand confirming you tested negative within the past 72 hours. Two tourists allegedly thought they could get around those...

CDC Reports 'Huge Decline' in Life Expectancy

It's down by a full year, according to data from the first half of 2020

(Newser) - Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic caused its first wave of deaths, health officials are reporting. Minorities suffered the biggest impact, with Black Americans losing nearly three years and Hispanics nearly two years, according to...

Kroger Is Closing More Stores Over Hazard Pay Issue

This time the grocery store chain is shuttering stores in Seattle

(Newser) - Kroger is closing two more stores, this time in Seattle, rather than providing workers with hazard pay. A law that went into effect this month in the city requires grocery stores of a certain size to pay workers an extra $4 per hour amid the COVID-19 pandemic, CNN reports. As...

Andrew Cuomo's COVID Task Force Is Under Investigation

As criticism of New York governor's handling of coronavirus pandemic mounts

(Newser) - New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's COVID controversy has erupted into a full-blown probe. The FBI and the US Attorney's Office in Brooklyn are investigating his coronavirus task force, sources tell the Albany Times-Union . The investigation focuses, at least partially, on how the task force handled nursing homes and...

DHS Seizes 11 Million Counterfeit N95 Masks
11M Counterfeit
N95 Masks Seized
Feb 17, 2021 5:25 PM CST

11M Counterfeit N95 Masks Seized

More 'enforcement actions' are expected in the coming weeks

(Newser) - The DHS announced Wednesday that it has seized more than 11 million counterfeit 3M N95 masks during raids over the past few weeks, CNBC reports. The masks were meant for frontline workers, per the Washington Post . "That individuals, criminals exploit our vulnerabilities for a quick buck is something that...

Israel Has Kept Vaccines From Palestinians—Until Now

There are only 2K doses of Sputnik V vaccine for Gaza Strip, a territory of 2 million Palestinians

(Newser) - Israel allowed the Palestinian Authority to deliver the first coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, despite objections from Israeli lawmakers who suggested they be used as a bargaining chip for the release of captives held by the territory's militant Hamas rulers. Israel has faced international criticism for...

Calling All Volunteers Willing to Be Exposed to COVID

In a world first, UK to start exposing humans to coronavirus to study how the infection spreads

(Newser) - British regulators have approved the world's first coronavirus human challenge trial, in which volunteers will be deliberately exposed to the virus to study how infection spreads. The government said Wednesday that the UK's clinical trials ethics regulator has approved the trial and it will start within a month....

New York Sues Amazon Over Alleged COVID Shortcomings
New York Sues Amazon Over
'Deficient' COVID Response
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Feb 17, 2021 6:35 AM CST

New York Sues Amazon Over 'Deficient' COVID Response

Suit filed by AG Letitia James also alleges it retaliated against an NYC worker

(Newser) - "Amazon's extreme profits and exponential growth rate came at the expense of the lives, health, and safety of its frontline workers." So claims a lawsuit filed against the company by the state of New York, which alleges Amazon both failed to put in place COVID safeguards for...

Biden Offers to Stay After Town Hall to Help Worried Mom

Plus more from the Tuesday night event

(Newser) - Joe Biden wrapped up his first town hall since becoming president Tuesday night, and the evening got pretty personal for one attendee of the event in Milwaukee, Wis. The woman asked a question about her 19-year-old son, who was diagnosed with pediatric chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) at 14 and...

Study: 2 Shots of Pfizer Are 'Incredibly Effective'

But health officials report worrisome numbers on South Africa variant

(Newser) - Israel, which got off to a quick start in vaccinating its citizens, has now seen the benefits documented. Among 600,000 people who received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, symptomatic cases have dropped 94%, a study shows. And that group was 92% less likely to develop severe COVID-19 illness,...

South Korea Has New Accusation Against North Korea

It says its neighbor tried to hack Pfizer; no word on whether the attack was successful

(Newser) - The North Korean regime tried to hack US drugmaker Pfizer in an effort to steal information on the company's coronavirus vaccine, according to South Korea's National Intelligence Service. Lawmakers were briefed on the findings during a closed-door session of the National Assembly's intelligence committee on Tuesday, per...

Cuomo: There Was No COVID Cover-Up
Cuomo: There Was No
COVID Cover-Up
Feb 16, 2021 12:31 AM CST

Cuomo: There Was No COVID Cover-Up

Says state should have released information on nursing home deaths more quickly

(Newser) - Under fire over his management of the coronavirus' lethal path through New York’s nursing homes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday the state didn't cover up deaths but should have moved faster to release some information sought by lawmakers, the public, and the press. “All the deaths in...

WHO Grants Emergency Authorization to Vaccine

Hundreds of millions of AstraZeneca doses will be shipped to countries in COVAX program

(Newser) - The World Health Organization has granted an emergency authorization to AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine, a move that should allow the UN agency's partners to ship millions of doses to countries worldwide as part of a UN-backed program to tame the pandemic. In a statement Monday, the WHO said it...

Not 'a Single Dose' of Vaccine in 130 Nations

Wealthy countries are scooping up doses, creating health and ethical conundrums

(Newser) - As good news continues to trickle in about coronavirus efforts in the US, including a reported deal by the Biden administration that snagged 200 million more doses for Americans, things aren't progressing as well in many parts of the world. In fact, UNICEF says that 130 countries have "...

Daily US COVID Cases Hit a Number Not Seen Since November

And that's good news: The daily average dropped below 100K

(Newser) - Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned Sunday that infections remain high and precautions to slow the pandemic must remain in place. The seven-day rolling average of new infections was well above...

New Zealand City on Lockdown as Family Tests Positive for COVID

It's not clear how 3 people in Auckland got the coronavirus

(Newser) - New Zealand has instituted a lockdown for the first time since August after three members of an Auckland family tested positive for the coronavirus. It's not clear how the parents and their teenage daughter contracted COVID-19, the first case of apparent community spread in the country in months, but...

COVID Likely Killed White Tiger Cubs

They died at a Pakistani zoo

(Newser) - Officials at a Pakistani zoo believe COVID-19 has claimed the lives of two white tiger cubs. The 11-week-old cubs died at the Lahore Zoo on Jan. 30, Reuters reports, four days after beginning treatment for presumed cases of feline panleukopenia virus, which, per the Washington Post , is a “fairly...

Forget &#39;Pandemic,&#39; Start Thinking &#39;Endemic&#39;
Forget 'Pandemic,'
Start Thinking 'Endemic'
in case you missed it
Feb 13, 2021 5:30 PM CST

Forget 'Pandemic,' Start Thinking 'Endemic'

COVID may be with us permanently, like the flu, reports the Wall Street Journal

(Newser) - Everyone's gotten familiar with the word "pandemic" in the last year. Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that we'll likely have to shift our thinking on COVID to use "endemic" instead. Meaning, the virus could be with us in some fashion for years or perhaps permanently,...

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