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Africa Variant Found in Maryland; U.S. Cases Slow: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/30/2021 Bloomberg News © Bloomberg People wait in their vehicles at a drive-thru Covid-19 vaccination site at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. The city of Long Beach this week expanded distribution of vaccines to food workers, the first group of essential workers in Los Angeles County outside the healthcare industry to be offered the critica...

Share: Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) will start COVID-19 vaccine supply with 2 million doses on receiving an emergency use authorization in the U.S., according to Government Accountability Office (GAO) report. JNJ spokesman told Bloomberg in an email that it is expected to supply 100 million doses to the U.S. government by the first half of 2021 but did not comment on the GAO report. As per an earlier report, JNJ anticipates applying for emergency use authorization with the U.S. Food and D...

What other states are doing that Alabama isn’t to roll out COVID vaccine Updated Jan 29, 2021; Posted Jan 29, 2021 FILE - In this Friday, Jan. 22, 2021 file photo, empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are seen at a vaccination center at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)AP Facebook Share A person living in West Virginia is almost twice as likely to have gotten a COVID-19 vaccine than a person in Alabama. The same goes for Connecticut, New...

Statewide coronavirus hospitalizations have declined 9.6% over the past two weeks, a promising sign, but state health officials warn that the number of COVID-19 patients is still a "big concern" as the country races to vaccinate people before new, more contagious coronavirus variants spread. Coronavirus hospitalizations in Texas peaked at 14,218 on Jan. 11. On Monday, there were 12,851 coronavirus patients in Texas, according to the most recent data from the Texas Department of State Health ...

Analysis: My Covid-19 vaccine trial experience remains vital as vaccination rates are lagging Over a month ago, I got injected with either a Covid-19 vaccine candidate or placebo from Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen unit. Since I’ve enrolled in a randomized, double-blind vaccine trial, I don’t know what I got and neither do the doctors and nurses who are running the trial at Ark Clinical Research in Long Beach, Ca. I’ve had no side effects; my arm wasn’t even sore after I received my shot...

Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine is coming soon, experts say. 100M doses could arrive by April. Updated Jan 26, 2021; Facebook Share The New Brunswick-based company’s vaccine has been in a Phase 3 clinical trial, known as “Ensemble.” “I would think that no more than two weeks from now the data will be analyzed in the similar fashion, the way we analyzed it with the Moderna and the Pfizer candidate,” Fauci said Friday on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC. “That is an indepen...

Positive Pub for West Virginia By January 26, 2021 - 12:40 am Too often when I see a headline in a national publication that mentions West Virginia, I hold my breath.  We have all read many stories over the years that portray the Mountain State in a poor light. But there were two national stories this past weekend where West Virginia shined. The New York Timesprominently featured a story about how our state has done a better job than every other state with Covid vaccinations so far.  The h...

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Indiana community surprises longtime pizza deliveryman with a new car Peters has worked at a Pizza Hut in Tipton for 31 years, and Tanner Langley, 28, told Good Morning America hes the only pizza deliveryman hes ever known. "The town of Tipton calls him Mr. Smiley," Langley said. "He makes that impact on everybody and hes a very kindhearted individual." During a recent delivery, Peters mentioned to Langley that his 28-year-old car was having issues. Langley wanted to do something, so he starte...