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Chinese COVID-19 Vaccines Not Very Effective: Official Chinese COVID-19 vaccines “don’t have very high protection rates,” the director of the China Centers for Disease Control admitted over the weekend. At a conference on Saturday, Gao Fu also said the government is considering mixing them to improve their effectiveness, the AssociatedContinue Reading

Prince Philip Dies At Age 99 Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, died Friday at Windsor Castle in England at age 99, Buckingham Palace announced. It said the Duke of Edinburgh died peacefully, The New York Times reported. Philip was hospitalized several times in recent years for various conditions,Continue Reading

Special ACA Enrollment Window Brings Insurance to 500,000 Americans More than half a million people have gained health coverage under a special sign-up window for Affordable Care Act insurance plans, the White House said Wednesday. Officials said even more Americans will get insurance under the sign-up opportunity that will beContinue Reading

Double Mutant Coronavirus Variant Detected in U.S. for First Time A “double mutant” variant of the coronavirus has been detected in San Francisco, making it the first time the variant has been spotted in the United States. The variant has two mutations that help the virus attach to cells andContinue Reading

Walgreens Wasn’t Following COVID-19 Dose Timing Guidelines Walgreens wasn’t following U.S. government guidance on when to give second doses of COVID-19 vaccines, but will start doing so after hearing from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The pharmacy chain has given the two-dose Pfizer vaccine to thousands ofContinue Reading

Navajo Nation Curbs COVID-19 Cases The Navajo Nation recently reported no coronavirus cases and no COVID-19 deaths in a 24-hour period, a notable achievement considering that the second largest tribe in the United States once had one of the highest coronavirus case rates in the country. The tribe has moreContinue Reading

More Cases Seen of Blood Clots Linked to AstraZeneca’s COVID Vaccine British regulators say they’ve identified 30 cases of rare blood clots in people who’ve received AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, and Australia says it’s investigating a possible link between the vaccine and clotting in a man who recently received the shot.Continue Reading

Production Error at U.S. Plant Ruins 15 Million Doses of J&J COVID Vaccine A production error that ruined about 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine could delay upcoming shipments of the vaccine in the United States. The incident occurred at a plant in Baltimore run byContinue Reading

GOP Governors Resist Calls by Biden to Keep Mask Mandates Several Republican governors still plan to cancel mask mandates despite President Joe Biden urging states to maintain those rules. For example, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchison said Tuesday that he’s canceling the state’s mask mandate immediately, a day earlier than previouslyContinue Reading

Salmonella Scare Drives Pet Food Recall A number of brands of dog and cat food are being recalled by Midwestern Pet Foods due to possible salmonella contamination that poses a risk to both pets who eat the products and people who handle them, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.Continue Reading