Covid-19: The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials
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A single dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine can protect older people, a study shows. California reaches a deal that encourages schools to reopen.
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A hot dog vendor in Los Angeles reopened on Monday after being closed for two months. The restaurant has been in business since 1939.Credit.Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse Getty Images
Tens of thousands of students walked into classrooms in Chicago public schools on Monday for the first time in nearly a year. Restaurants in Massachusetts were allowed to operate without capacity limits, and venues like roller skating rinks and movie theaters in most of the state opened with fewer restrictions. And South Carolina erased its limits on large gatherings.
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Vaccines not panacea for poor COVID-19 response
Health advocate and community doctor Josh San Pedro said that mass testing remains important amid the increasing number of cases, and the new coronavirus variant, which is proving to be more transmissible. After all, vaccines have no 100 efficacy rate and that chances of getting infected remain.
By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
MANILA – Under the world’s longest and strictest COVID-19 lockdown, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte repeatedly proclaimed that the answer to the pandemic is “only vaccine.” Such declaration came amid mounting criticisms to government’s poor response.
doon sa nangyari na pagpasok, sa paggamit ng mga vaccine
na mismong nagsabi ng FDA na wala pa silang inaprubahan, said Julie Caguiat, spokesperson for the Citizens Urgent Response to End COVID-19 or CURE Covid, in a briefing.
[Translation: The CURE Covid s position is to call for an independent probe on use of vaccines that the FDA itself said was not yet approved]
On Saturday, President Rodrigo Duterte mentioned that some soldiers have already received the COVID-19 vaccine from the China-owned company Sinopharm. Defense and military officials also confirmed the news. The Armed Forces said it had the PSG inoculated first to protect Duterte from COVID-19, despite the absence of authorization from the country s Food and Drug Administration.
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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, December 29) – Medical frontliners stress they should be highly prioritized in the national COVID-19 vaccination program amid reports that some soldiers and Presidential Security Group (PSG) personnel have been immunized with unregistered vaccine.
Filipino Nurses United Secretary-General Jocelyn Andamo pointed out to CNN Philippines’ Rico Hizon on Tuesday that health workers are more prone to contract COVID-19 due to the nature of their work.
“It is sad to know that some people were vaccinated already, yet they have been telling before that medical frontliners should be the first to receive the vaccine,” Andamo lamented.
Alliance of Health Workers National President Robert Mendoza insisted in the same interview that the COVID-19 vaccine that will be administered to the people must pass the Philippine Food and Drug Administration regulations and Phase 3 clinical trials, registered by the agency, safe, and effective.