The Minnesota Department of Health announced Monday that it had confirmed the first known U.S. case of a contagious variant of coronavirus originally found in Brazil.The Brazilian strain was found by the Ministry of Health's variant monitoring program, according...
Volunteers in protective suits disinfect in a residential area of Tonghua, China on January 24, 2021.Visual China Group | Getty ImagesBEIJING - A small Chinese town's rush to control coronavirus has left some residents without food and some...
On January 22, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden signs Executive Orders for economic relief for families and businesses affected by Covid in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC.Nicholas Comb | AFP | ...
Vivek Murthy, named U.S. Surgeon General by President-elect Joe Biden, speaks as Biden announces his team tasked with fighting the Covid-19 pandemic at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on December 8, 2020.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have tacitly changed their guidelines for Covid-19 vaccine shots, stating that it is now okay to mix up Pfizer and Moderna shots in "exceptional situations" and that it is okay too to...
Walgreens pharmacist Jessica Sahni will hold the vaccine against Pfizer BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the New Jewish Home in New York on December 21, 2020.Yuki Iwamura | ReutersPfizer said it had fully enrolled its Covid-19 vaccine study...
Scientists work in a laboratory testing COVID-19 samples at the New York City Health Department during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in New York on April 23, 2020.Brendan McDermid | ReutersNew York State runs about 1,000 genome tests...
United States President Joe Biden speaks about his administration's plans to respond to the economic crisis during a Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Response in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington on January 22, 2021.Jonathan Ernst |...
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference on Coronavirus (COVID-19) on Downing Street on January 15, 2021 in London, England.Dominic Lipinski | Getty ImagesThere is "some evidence" that a new variant of Covid, first identified...
Dr. Johnson & Johnson board member Mark McClellan told CNBC that "if the clinical trial works," the company could significantly increase the availability of Covid vaccines in the coming weeks. "I know J&J has a very large supply...
