By Ray Cox
Special to The Roanoke Times
Not to boast too openly about the high quality of the constituency for this column, the wit and insight of the many identify them as instinctive journalists with a follow-up question at the ready.
A recent meandering tour of the regionâs mineral springs led to the Catawba Valley and the site of the Catawba Hospital, a state behavioral health complex. In a bygone day, it was a resort known as Roanoke Red Sulphur Springs. Later it was a state-run hospital dedicated to the treatment of tuberculosis, which prompted the examination to come.
The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday that preliminary tests showed the incidence of severe abnormal reactions caused by the Covid-19 vaccines currently used in China is no higher than that of the influenza vaccine, Xinhua news agency reportedLast
Almost 50 million doses of COVID-19
vaccine have been distributed in the United States and nearly 30
million doses administered, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention said on Saturday. . | February 4, 2021
US Covid-19 case count rose to 26,012,880, with a total of 438,239 deaths, as of 2.22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), according to the CSSE tally, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.Cali