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731 shares A nurse holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy's Hospital in London, December 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool) Hospitals across the US have made a surprise discovery in recent days that many are hailing as a Hanukkah miracle. Some vials containing the precious Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine contained more than the expected five doses, sometimes enough for seven people. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)  on Wednesday confirmed that some of the vials may be overfilled and advised health professionals to use every full dose possible “given the pu...

Children from the real-life school of rock took inspiration from the classic 1980’s St Winifred’s Choir anthem to pen their own song about how much they have missed seeing their grandparents during the pandemic. Many of the young musicians, including lyricist Abby Warner, 14, have been unable to see their grandparents physically for over 10 months and face Christmas seeing them only on screens. Rev Sinclair said: “It’s such a great song and I absolutely love the message behind it about keeping grandparents safe this Christmas time. Of course we all want to be together physically but i...

0 shares The Walla news site reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to appoint Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz as the next US ambassador in place of Gilad Erdan, who is supposed to take up the role in addition to the UN envoy position he already holds. Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90) According to the outlet, Netanyahu is meeting with Erdan, and giving him the choice of choosing which position he wants to keep and which he wants Steinitz to have. Steinitz has been closely involved in US and UN-brokered negotiations with Lebanon over a maritime b...

0 shares There’s no official word yet on the government’s reported decision to walk back its plans for Hanukkah restrictions. However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts on Twitter that Israel has “among the lowest death rates among coronavirus sufferers in the world.” “We made the right decisions, saved many lives, and that’s what we will continue to do,” he says, without detailing what decisions he is referring to. He attaches a chart of unknown provenance showing death rates of coronavirus sufferers, showing Israel as the second-lowest of a handful of countries, b...

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