FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
Read More »US government enters $ 1.525 billion deal with Moderna for 100 million doses of its Covid-19 vaccine
President Trump announced the deal during a media briefing on Tuesday. Moderna is one of several companies producing the vaccine “at risk”, as the sector calls it, which means that the company is currently producing the vaccine before it is approved. Clinical trials are currently underway to test whether it …
Read More »The city of Auckland of New Zealand is preparing for lockdown as mystery COVID cases emerge
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealanders rallied on Wednesday to share essentials as the country’s largest city was ready to go into lockdown again, following new cases of the coronavirus running a 102-day record run terminated without new infections. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last night that she would expel Auckland …
Read More »NIH chief says politically motivated approval of coronavirus vaccine ‘can’t happen’
Doctors are worried that just before Election Day President Trump may press the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve a coronavirus vaccine before it is ready as an “October surprise” to win votes. “This just can’t be allowed to happen,” Drs. Francis Collins to CNN. He said that if …
Read More »Delay routine dental check-ups, WHO requests, until COVID risk is known
FILE PHOTO: A dentist sues a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non-aerosol-generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, Milton Keynes, UK, June 8, 2020. REUTERS / Andrew Boyers / File photo GENEVA (Reuters) – Dental patients and staff need to be …
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