Nearly two dozen Americans have experienced life-threatening allergic reactions after receiving Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, a new report finds. Between December 14 and 23, a total of 21 people suffered anaphylaxis upon getting their first dose, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed on Wednesday. Of those patients, 17 people had a history of … Read more
Quickly turning around results of the process to detect the new ‘super-covid’ variant ‘isn’t an urgent need,’ because the findings won’t change how the US handles the pandemic, a CDC official told DailyMail.com. ‘For less urgent sequencing, when there isn’t an urgent need to get the data turned around quickly, it’s much more efficient to … Read more
An Instagram account, believed to have been created by a gay Instagrammer, is naming and shaming ‘Covidiots’ who have been flaunting lockdown rules during the pandemic. The @gaysovercovid account, which was created by an anonymous user, sifts through the gay community’s Instagram posts to find and share people throwing maskless parties and huge gatherings while coronavirus cases … Read more
A few Instagram accounts have been created to roast partygoers and maskless Americans who have been flouting guidance from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) to gather in large groups and walk around in public without facial coverings. The @gaysovercovid account has shared numerous images, clips, memes and information calling out gay men … Read more
About 14 percent of the U.S. population may already have antibodies against the novel coronavirus and could safely wait to get a vaccine, a new study finds. Researchers from Pfizer Vaccines looked at antibody test surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last year. They determined the nearly 47 million Americans … Read more
A group representing major US airlines on Monday urged the Trump administration to lift travel bans on passengers flying in from Brazil, Europe and the UK as the air travel industry continues to strain under the weight of the on-going coronavirus pandemic. The plea came in a letter authored by Airlines for America (A4A), a … Read more
For the second consecutive day, the United States has set a record-high number of coronavirus deaths. On Thursday, the country reported 3,744 fatalities due to COVID-19, data from Johns Hopkins University shows. This breaks the previous record set on Wednesday of 3,725 and brings the total number of deaths to 342,414. The figure also marks … Read more
The United States has hit a pandemic record of more than 3,900 deaths and 125,000 hospitalizations in a single day as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that there could be 82,000 more fatalities in the next 24 days. For the ninth day this month, deaths have exceeded 3,000. On Wednesday, the … Read more
Operation Warp Speed’s chief scientist has admitted the US vaccine rollout ‘should be better’ as anger mounts that fewer only about 230,000 Americans are getting vaccinated a day. So far, fewer than 2.6 million people have been vaccinated as of 9am ET Wednesday, according to the CDC‘s updated figures. That means just 461,982 vaccines have … Read more
Nearly half a million Wuhan residents may have been infected with coronavirus – almost 10 times the city’s official number of confirmed cases – a study by China‘s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests. The research aimed to estimate the scale of previous infections by testing blood serum samples from a number of … Read more