Lawmakers may have been exposed to coronavirus in Capitol lockdown, attending physician says lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine protects against key mutation found in fast-spreading virus variants, study shows
Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
Ossineke Pharmacy supervisor, Sarah Tarkington, left, and MidMichigan Medical Center Pharmacy Manager, Laura Caplis, prepare the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to be administered in December in Alpena, Mich.photo for The Washington Post by Elaine Cromie.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine works against a key mutation found in new, fast-spreading coronavirus variants first discovered in the United Kingdom and South Africa, and now spreading across the globe.
The finding,published late Thursday night, but not yet peer-reviewed, bolsters many scientists expectations that the immune response triggered by vaccines will be broad enough to counter the new, highly contagious variants.
U.S. tries to expedite vaccine distribution after record day of death
Paulina Firozi, Jacqueline Dupree and Meryl Kornfield, The Washington Post
Jan. 7, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
WASHINGTON - After angry rioters and supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a last stand for the outgoing president, the United States has tallied its deadliest day of the coronavirus pandemic for the second straight day.
On Thursday, more than 4,000 people died of covid-19 in the United States, the first time the toll has exceeded that milestone, after a record day Wednesday of 3,915 deaths. The pandemic has now claimed more than 363,000 lives in the United States. More than 265,000 new coronavirus cases were reported, the second-highest count in a day according to a Washington Post analysis. More than 132,000 people are battling covid-19 in hospital beds, the most the nation s health-care system has taken on.
One in 50 Americans Has COVID in Some Areas Before New Variants Have Taken Hold
On 1/8/21 at 10:02 AM EST
As the U.S. struggles to contain the spread of COVID, experts have told
Newsweek as many as one in 50 people may be infected with the virus in some parts of the country.
Their estimates come as a new, more infectious variant of COVID from the U.K., which was first identified in Colorado in late December, has emerged in a total of eight states: the Centennial State itself, Texas, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, California, Florida, New York, and Georgia. However, the variant is likely in more states than currently known, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told
Editorial: Our post-pandemic bucket list for 2021. Hey, we can dream.
FacebookTwitterEmail
1of5
Jonathan Adam helps inspect his girlfriend Anna Torres costume before she competes in a cosplay event at Japan Festival Houston at Hermann Park on Sunday, April 14, 2019, in Houston. Torres character is named Eternal Sailor Moon. She built everything herself, I was just gaming, Adam said.Jon Shapley, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
2of5
Megan Thee Stallion in Concert for Red Bull at White Oak Music Hall near Downtown Houston on Tuesday, December 3, 2019Jamaal Ellis, Houston Chronicle / ContributorShow MoreShow Less
3of5
4of5
People wait to board a Metro Route 82 bus on Westheimer near Gessner Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Houston.Melissa Phillip, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less