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EU threatens to block Covid vaccine exports amid AstraZeneca shortfall Daniel Boffey in Brussels (Video by Dailymotion) The EU has threatened to block exports of coronavirus vaccines to countries outside the bloc such as Britain, after AstraZeneca was accused of failing to give a satisfactory explanation for a huge shortfall of promised doses to member states. The pharmaceutical company’s new distribution plans were said to be “unacceptable” after it “surprisingly” informed the European commission on Friday that there would be significant shortfalls on the original s...

COVID Outbreak at Pet Cat's Birthday Party in Chilean Town Leads to 15 Infections People 1/25/2021 © Provided by People Getty A birthday party thrown for a pet cat led to a COVID-19 outbreak that infected over a dozen people. According to Newsweek, who cited local reports, the birthday party for the feline took place in the town of Santo Domingo, Chile, and all ten guests tested positive for COVID-19 afterwards. The attendees also infected five additional family members and friends. Francisco Alvarez, Valparaiso regional secretary of the Ministry of Health (SEREMI), reportedly confirmed...

Blurry vision, insomnia and other ways blue light is affecting your health Mirror 23/01/2021 Hattie Parish During the first lockdown, many Brits spent as much as 40 per cent of their day watching TV and online streaming services. And for many people, work and social lives also played out exclusively on devices, so that’s a lot of screen time. No wonder, then, that our interest in blue light – also known as high-energy visible or HEV light – has soared in the past year, with online searches up 58 per cent. The data shows we’re unsure of the negative effects on our hea...

COVID Vaccine Likely Won’t Be Available to the General Public by End of February, Says CDC Director People 1/22/2021 © Provided by People Getty As issues with COVID-19 vaccine distribution and availability continue, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control said that the vaccine likely will not be available to the general public for another few months. In December, former Trump administration health secretary Alex Azar had told Today that he expected the vaccine to be widely available to the public in pharmacies by the end of February or early March. But on Friday, new CDC d...

How SAGE scientists calculate the UK's weekly R number Ed Conway, economics & data editor There are few more important numbers these days than R. The reproduction rate has for much of this pandemic been cast as the most crucial of all pieces of data. © Imagebridge The UK's R number is moving in the right direction Perhaps this is unsurprising; after all the main question everyone is focused on is whether the spread of the disease is accelerating or not - and the official reproduction rate, the measure published by the government's scientific adviser group SAGE each week, is...