Associated PressEXPLAINER: Why it's hard to make vaccines and boost suppliesAssociated Press - By LAURAN NEERGAARDWith demand for COVID-19 vaccines outpacing the world’s supplies, a frustrated public and policymakers want to know: How can we get more? A lot more. Right away. The problem: “It’s not like adding more water to the soup,” said vaccine specialist Maria Elena Bottazzi of Baylor College of …
Associated PressExhausted hospital chaplains bring solace to lonely, dyingAssociated PressLOS ANGELES (AP) — Inside hospital rooms across America, where the sick are alone without family to comfort them, the grim task of offering solace falls to overworked and emotionally drained hospital chaplains who are dealing with more death than they’ve ever seen. Last week nearly a dozen died on a …
Associated PressGlobal death toll from COVID-19 tops 2M amid vaccine rolloutAssociated PressThe global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday as vaccines developed at breakneck speed are being rolled out around the world in an all-out campaign to vanquish the threat. The milestone was reached just over a year after the coronavirus was first detected in the Chinese city of …
Associated PressUN: COVID-19 herd immunity unlikely in 2021 despite vaccinesAssociated Press - By MARIA CHENG and JAMEY KEATENGENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization’s chief scientist warned that even as numerous countries start rolling out vaccination programs to stop COVID-19, herd immunity is highly unlikely this year. At a media briefing on Monday, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said it was critical countries and their …
Associated PressChina: WHO experts arriving Thursday for virus origins probeAssociated PressBEIJING (AP) — Experts from the World Health Organization are due to arrive in China this week for a long-anticipated investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the government said Monday. The experts will arrive on Thursday and meet with Chinese counterparts, the National Health …
Associated PressPfizer study suggests vaccine works against virus variantAssociated Press - By LAURAN NEERGAARDNew research suggests Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in the two more-contagious variants of the coronavirus that have erupted in Britain and South Africa. The study was preliminary and did not look at the two other major vaccines being used in the West — Moderna’s and …
