The COVID-19 vaccines in use now have been touted for how well they work—the Pfizer vaccine trials found its product to be 95 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 infections after both shots and the Moderna 94.1 percent effective after the same. And people are gradually becoming familiar and comfortable with how the mRNA technology that… Read More »
Minister says public inquiry into coronavirus response would be ‘premature’ as he rejects growing calls for probe into No10’s handling of crisis Scientific advisers, bereaved families and doctors are calling for a public inquiry Ex-civil service chief Lord Kerslake said it would be ‘criminal not to learn lessons’ Boris Johnson had promised last July there would… Read More »
LATEST COVID-19 DEVELOPMENTS: * Authorities insist Australia’s successful suppression of COVID-19 has bought time to roll out vaccines. While more than 100,000 people have been vaccinated to date, the federal government previously committed to four million by the end of March. * Australia has now gone almost two weeks without a case of local COVID-19.… Read More »
An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had COVID-19 — six times the official count, a study released Tuesday suggests. Researchers from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai also found the coronavirus was circulating through the five boroughs “long before” the first recorded case, the study published in Nature states. An estimated 1.7 million New Yorkers have had… Read More »