Raleigh, N.C. – Government Roy Roy Cooper on Tuesday issued a new stay-at-home order to limit the spread of coronavirus, ordering most businesses to close at 10pm every night, starting Friday. “We must act now to save lives, maintain the capacity of the hospital and keep our economy safe,” Cooper …
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Hospitals are scrambling for plans to determine if health care workers can receive the Covid-19 vaccine first, with the expectation of an initial supply of the amount needed to vaccinate all high-priority employees. Enough is expected to deliver the December vaccine to about 200 million people, according to federal officials. …
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Governments are moving toward approving the first vaccines to contain Covid-19, but public concerns about dosage safety are threatening to undermine those efforts. A survey by the University of Hamburg found that about 40% of respondents in seven European countries were hesitant or unwilling to prepare for the Covid-19 vaccine …
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Drug development for sickle-cell disease, largely neglected for decades, is becoming a crowded field: two papers published on Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine give promising results from a study of experimental therapies, including Crisper gene editing for the disease. In addition, Beam Therapeutics Inc. The American Society …
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Even if all coronavirus vaccines run according to the federal government’s plan, many jurisdictions will initially receive only a fraction of the amount they will need to cover their health care workers. For example, Minneapolis-St. The Paul Metro area has been told by state officials to expect 19,000 doses, enough …
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