by Jim Heath | Jan 25, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
President Biden said today he believed that the U.S. will be able to offer vaccines to every American who wants one ‘in spring.’ He also increased his goal of 1 million vaccines a day to 1.5 million today, predicting his administration would reach that...
by Jim Heath | Jan 24, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted today that the US doesn’t have enough COVID-19 vaccines to meet states’ needs, even as New York and Georgia desperately plead for more doses to inoculate their populations. ‘We...
by Jim Heath | Jan 19, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The United States hit a grim milestone and surpassed 400,000 coronavirus deaths today, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That figure is more than the number of Americans who died during World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined and nearly...
by Jim Heath | Jan 18, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
Five prominent anti-vaccine organizations that have been known to spread misleading information about the coronavirus received more than $850,000 in loans from the federal Paycheck Protection Program, raising questions about why the government is giving money to...
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health, Joe Biden
President-elect Joe Biden tonight unveiled a $1.9 trillion package to provide economic relief to Americans and businesses and help fund an ambitious coronavirus vaccine program with the goal of reaching 100 million doses by the end of his first 100 days in office....
by Jim Heath | Jan 14, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
A trauma surgeon says lungs of recovered COVID-19 patients look far worse than even those of smokers. Dr Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been treating thousand of people ill with the disease since...
