[ad_1] Los Angeles County ended 2020 breaking Covid-19 records and ushered in the new year by doing the same. Los Angeles public health officials reported on Saturday that LA County had exceeded 800,000 total cases of the coronavirus – nearly half of the cases reported last month. To date, Los Angeles County has confirmed 806,210 … Read more
[ad_1] A member of medical staff prepares to administer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 21, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Come on Nakamura / Getty Images At least 60 residents of a luxury apartment complex in Houston have been vaccinated against COVID-19, the general manager told The Daily Beast. … Read more
[ad_1] The number of new daily Covid-19 cases in Los Angeles County had been declining for two weeks. From an all-time high of 21,411 on December 16, new cases settled between 13,000 and 15,000. While deaths remained woefully high, there was some hope that a plateau in cases meant that the transmission of the virus … Read more
[ad_1] Battled with a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local US prisons and state penitentiary systems have resorted to a drastic strategy to keep the virus at bay: completely arrest and transfer their inmates elsewhere. From California to Missouri to Pennsylvania, state and local officials say so many guards have fallen ill with the … Read more
[ad_1] DALLAS – Coronavirus-related hospitalizations declined slightly in Texas on Saturday but remained near their all-time high, with health officials saying there were around 600 intensive care beds available in the state of nearly 29 million people. Texas reported 12,319 COVID-19 patients in hospitals on Saturday, ending five consecutive days of record hospitalizations. But even … Read more
[ad_1] HOUSTON – While people wait to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, a luxury skyscraper in Houston is facing questions about how some of its tenants gained access to the vaccines. A website for Montebello calls the condo building near the Galleria “one of Houston’s luxury skyscrapers,” with units that can sell for millions of dollars. … Read more
[ad_1] New Years Eve was different this year for many people, with social distancing regulations limiting social plans that would normally have taken place. Another group that was different for was a weird crowd forming outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London. A&E Doctor Matthew Lee tweeted a clip of what appeared to be a group … Read more
[ad_1] Drugmaker AstraZeneca has reportedly pledged to increase production to 2 million doses per week by mid-January, even as government vaccine deployments fall short of expectations. “The plan then is to build it up fairly quickly – by the third week of January we should get to two million a week,” an anonymous AstraZeneca member … Read more
[ad_1] You would have thought Billy Joel was in town for a concert. “They arrived at 7:40 p.m.,” said Gretchen Smith, spokesperson for the Flagler health department, of the first load of cars that arrived at the county fairground on Friday evening, ahead of the event. vaccination against coronavirus the next day. It was not … Read more
[ad_1] Britain reactivated emergency hospitals built at the start of the pandemic and closed primary schools in London on Friday (local time) to counter the rapid spread of a much more infectious variant of the new coronavirus. With more than 50,000 new daily cases of Covid-19 in the past four days, the health service said … Read more