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TORONTO A national panel of vaccine experts is recommending that Canadian provinces extend the interval between the two doses of a COVID-19 shot to quickly inoculate more people.
The National Advisory Committee on Immunization says extending the dose interval to four months would create opportunities to protect the entire adult population against the virus within a short time frame.
SEOUL, South Korea South Korea’s central bank says the country’s economy shrank for the first time in 22 years in 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic destroyed service industry jobs
/PRNewswire/ Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts ("Blue Cross") today announced it will join Blue Cross companies across the country, along with members.
U.S. COVID death toll above 518,000 as Biden adds voice to outrage at Texas and Mississippi for reopening MarketWatch 3/4/2021
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 518,000 on Thursday, as President Joe Biden added his voice to a chorus of outrage over Texas and Mississippi’s decision to reopen their states for business, just as declining case numbers are stalling and public health experts are urging Americans to stick with safety measures.
Texas has the third highest death toll from COVID-19 among states after California and New York and has vaccinated only a small percentage of its population. The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned several times in the past week against reopening prematurely, warning that the nation is still seeing about 70,000 new cases a day and about 2,000 deaths, as new variants that are far more infectious than the original virus circulate.