A version of this story appeared in the March 17 edition of CNN’s Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday. (CNN)After virtually all of western Europe temporarily suspended the use of Oxford-AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, the continent’s top medicines regulator […]
Since taking office in her first television interview, Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized the importance of vaccinating educators. “Teachers should be a priority,” said Harris on Wednesday. “They must be able to teach in a safe place … Therefore, teachers must be a priority along […]
Viviane Faver A Brooklyn-based group called Safe Walks NYC offers safe walking from subway stations in response to violence in the neighborhood. In an exclusive interview for the New York Beacon, founder Peter Kerre -also founder of Street Riders NYC and involved in the Black […]
London (CNN)The Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine appears to substantially reduce transmission of the virus, rather than simply preventing symptomatic infections, UK researchers have suggested.The rate of positive PCR tests declined by about half after two doses, according to preliminary results by researchers at the University of Oxford that […]
January 21, 2021 EditEdit with WPBakery Page Builder (CNN)President Joe Biden’s first full day in office Thursday will focus on getting the Covid-19 pandemic under control, rolling out his national strategy that includes several executive actions related to vaccinations and testing in hopes of moving the federal response […]
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhuman.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Three African American health leaders — advocates for expanded health care who are on the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19 raging across California — took a […]
(Photo: President-elect Donald Trump walks to take his seat for the inaugural swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Friday, Jan. 20, 2017. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)e in January 2021 as former Vice President Biden prepares to take over […]
By Abby Goodnough and Jan Hoffman Striking a compromise between two high-risk population groups, a panel advising the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Sunday to recommend that people age 75 and older be next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the United States, […]
A popular Denver bookstore that has fallen on hard financial times due to the coronavirus pandemic has announced that it is selling the business, and will become the country’s largest Black-owned independent bookstore in the acquisition. The Tattered Cover owners Len Vlahos and Kristen […]
(CNN)As the number of Covid-19 cases pushes medical facilities to the brink, one hospital has taken an unconventional approach: treating patients in its parking garage. Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno, Nevada, has turned its parking deck into an “Alternate Care Site” in an effort to serve […]
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