“Of course, we didn’t put Democrats in the vial; we didn’t put Republicans in the vial,” University of Washington’s Dr. Larry Corey writes in a recent COVID-19 Vaccine Matters blog jointly produced by Johns Hopkins University and the UW. While development of vaccines now being distributed to combat COVID-19, the deadly disease caused by the novel coronavirus, are a “remarkable achievement” that demonstrate the power of science to save lives, mistrust and fear continue to cause nearly 40% of Americans to say they would be unlikely to get vaccinated. Larry Corey Some of that mistrust stems from before the pandemic, but unfortunate politicization of COVID-19 vaccine development is also to blame. When the current administration jumped in to claim credit for the rapid development of the vaccines, that act personalized the science behind its creation.
From: Public Health Agency of Canada
On January 10, 2021, Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, issued the following statement on COVID-19.
January 10, 2021 | Ottawa, ON | Public Health Agency of Canada
Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer, issued the following statement today:
The end of 2020 marked a turning point for Canada in our fight against COVID-19. We witnessed Canadian approval of the first two vaccines for COVID-19 – the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine, and rollout of initial doses of these vaccines across the country. Knowing the first Canadians had been vaccinated against COVID-19 gave us something positive to focus on at the end of a difficult year, and continues to fuel our hope, strength, and resolve for the year ahead.
Concern at unexplained hoiho deaths
10 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM
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Yellow-eyed penguin chicks are falling ill with an unexplained pneumonia-like sickness. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
Concern is mounting for an already challenged species as a mysterious sickness kills yellow-eyed penguin chicks.
The Wildlife Hospital Trust manager Jordana Whyte said the unexplained respiratory condition affected hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) chicks across North Otago, Otago and the Catlins. We don t understand how they are getting it and why it is killing them.
On necropsy, it presented as a type of pneumonia.
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It was cause for concern. If it gets worse next year, for example, we ll be in huge trouble.
KABUL, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) A total of 76 new COVID-19 positive cases have been registered in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of pa