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    42 people in West Virginia are mistakenly given a virus treatment instead of the vaccine.

    Forty-two people in Boone County, in southwestern West Virginia, who were scheduled to receive the coronavirus vaccine on Wednesday were mistakenly injected with an...

    U.S. Officials Say Covid-19 Vaccination Effort Has Lagged

    The distribution of vaccines in the United States has gotten off to a slower-than-expected start, federal health officials acknowledged in a news conference on...

    How Does the Coronavirus Variant Spread? Here’s What Scientists Know

    A more contagious form of the coronavirus has begun circulating in the United States.In Britain, where it was first identified, the new variant became...

    More than 500 vaccine doses were left out to spoil on purpose by a hospital employee.

    An employee at a Wisconsin hospital intentionally removed more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration last week, rendering them useless, the hospital...

    Here’s Why the ‘Last Mile’ of Vaccine Distribution Is Going So Slowly

    In Florida, less than one-quarter of delivered coronavirus vaccines have been used, even as older people sat in lawn chairs all night waiting for...

    74 of Our Favorite Facts for 2020

    Each day, our editors collect the most interesting, striking or delightful facts to appear in articles throughout the paper. Here are 74 from the...

    ‘Grim’ Virus Discoveries in Colorado and California Alarm Scientists

    “I would expect a similar trajectory” in the United States, said Trevor Bedford, an evolutionary biologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in...

    How the Novavax Covid-19 Vaccine Works

    The Maryland-based company Novavax has developed a protein-based coronavirus vaccine called NVX-CoV2373. The vaccine...

    How the Sinopharm Covid-19 Vaccine Works

    In early 2020, the Beijing Institute of Biological Products created an inactivated coronavirus vaccine...

    74 Facts for 2020 – The New York Times

    Each day, our editors collect the most interesting, striking or delightful facts to appear in articles throughout the paper. Here are 74 from the...

    U.K. Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford and AstraZeneca

    LONDON — Britain became the first country on Wednesday to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of...

    What Can Be Learned From Differing Rates of Suicide Among Groups

    It’s a much debated connection. A recent systematic review of studies found that attending religious service is not especially protective against suicidal ideation (thinking...

    WHO | Yellow fever – Senegal

    From October to December 2020, a total of seven confirmed cases of yellow fever (YF)...

    Britain Authorizes Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford and AstraZeneca

    These setbacks have not dampened enthusiasm in Britain for the country’s leading homegrown vaccine, one that analysts have said could right the course of...

    He Was Hospitalized for Covid-19. Then Hospitalized Again. And Again.

    A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of 106,543 coronavirus patients initially hospitalized between March and July found that one in...

    Britain Authorizes Covid Vaccine from Oxford and AstraZeneca

    LONDON — Britain became the first country on Wednesday to give emergency authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of...