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Canada is battling a surge of coronavirus infections fueled by new variants which is sickening much younger adults than hospitals are accustomed to seeing.On Saturday evening, the nation surpassed 1 million recorded coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic. The third wave of coronavirus has mainly struck th...

The company at the center of the mix-up that led to roughly 15 million discarded doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine has a history of quality control violations, the Associated Press reported.A manufacturing plant in Baltimore under Emergent Biosolutions, one of eight companies producing the Johnson & Johnson vac...

A mishap at Emergent Biosolutions, a manufacturing plant in Baltimore that produces two separate coronavirus vaccines — Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca — has spoiled close to 15 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine and has delayed production and shipment schedules for weeks, according to The New York Times...

After a month-long investigation in Wuhan, the World Health Organization has offered its best guess as to where the coronavirus came from and how it got into the human population.A 120-page report released Tuesday lists the virus' potential origin scenarios in order of their likelihood. At the top is the possibility...

A new World Health Organization report, set to be released on Tuesday, lists the coronavirus' possible origin scenarios in order of their likelihood.According to the the Associated Press, which obtained a draft copy of the report, the most likely option is that the coronavirus jumped from bats to people via an inter...

During President Joe Biden's first solo press conference since taking office in January, not a single reporter asked a question about the coronavirus pandemic — a notable omission as the country country continues to see tens of thousands of new cases each day.But Americans tuning in to the hour-long conference still...

Summary List PlacementAs the number of vaccinations in arms increases daily, the light at the end of the quarantine tunnel is finally within sight. Three vaccines, from Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson have been approved. The challenge remains distribution.  After early production setbacks, President Biden has said the US will have the 500 million doses needed to vaccinate the country's adult population by...

Summary List PlacementThe latest round of stimulus checks has already landed in thousands of people's bank accounts as of Friday, according to The Wall Street Journal. The $1,400 checks are the latest round of direct payments delivered to Americans since the coronavirus began about one year ago. Treasury Department officials said earlier Friday that people should expect checks to start arriving this weekend after...

Summary List PlacementAround 450 of the roughly 10,000 workers at Tesla's Fremont, California, factory tested positive for COVID-19 from May to December, The Washington Post reported Friday. Tesla and Alameda County Public Health Department did not respond to a request for comment on this story. Last May, after public health orders required non-essential businesses to shut down in Alameda County, Elon Musk reopened the...

Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden said Thursday that all US adults will be eligible to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1, but recent vaccination rates suggest it could be even sooner. The president was speaking during his first prime-time address since taking office and on the heels of the passage of the Democrats' $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Biden said the vaccination schedule could...

Summary List PlacementIn June 2019, Johnny Boufarhat incorporated a company called Hopin with the UK's Companies House register. His idea was fairly straightforward. Online conference and events were bad and the software was worse, so why not create something better? So Hopin was born, offering conferencing software to make it easy to run everything from trade expos to social events online, starting at $99...

Summary List PlacementAll adult Americans will be eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine by May 1. President Joe Biden is expected to announce during a primetime address Thursday night that he will direct states, tribes, and territories to make all adults in the US eligible for the vaccine "no later than May 1," according to a senior administration official. "That doesn't mean everyone will get...

Summary List PlacementRep. Tim Ryan, a Democrat from Ohio, chastised GOP colleagues for harping on about Dr. Seuss while the House attempted to move forward the Protecting the Right to Organize Act, a bill intended to significantly aid workers' rights to organize.  The bill, which would penalize employers who violate federal law and retaliate against unionizing workers, was being discussed the day before the...

Summary List PlacementBlack clergy members across the US are filling in the gap of COVID-19 care by hosting testing and vaccination clinics.  Black Americans have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, with adults more than twice as likely to die from the virus. However, clergy members have said there are still limited resources in the communities that need them most.  In an effort to address...

Summary List PlacementWomen made up a majority of those reporting adverse effects from the COVID-19 vaccine, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed. Nearly 7,000 people reported to the CDC that they were experiencing side effects after receiving the vaccine, including symptoms of headaches, fatigue, and dizziness. Women made up nearly 80% of those who reported side effects. The survey...

Summary List PlacementMarriott is catering to the COVID-19 trend of longer vacations with a new suite of locations and rooms under its "longer stay" brands. This desire for extended trips has been growing since people began considering travel again amid COVID-19. And according to a Vrbo survey of 2,200 US-based travelers in December 2020, almost 40% of those surveyed said their next trip would...

Summary List PlacementAmericans knew little about how their actions were fueling the coronavirus' spread a year ago: People met friends at bars and concerts, blew their noses in public, and gathered en masse for campaign rallies, Mardi Gras celebrations, and college basketball games.  Research now shows the virus was likely spreading in the US as early as December 2019. But even after the US...

Summary List PlacementLast year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he regretted reopening bars too soon in the early months of the pandemic, which led to spikes of COVID-19 infections in the state. "If I could've done anything differently it would've been to delay the opening of bars," Abbott told local news outlet WFAA last June. "The opening of bars, if I recall correctly, was...