Johannesburg, South Africa — The new coronavirus variant identified in South Africa poses even more of a risk than the strain discovered several weeks ago in England, Britain’s top health official warned on Monday. His alarm came as scientists warned that the new strain sweeping...
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Scientist who helped develop Oxford vaccine among 1st to get it as U.K. wields new weapon against COVID
The United Kingdom put a new weapon to work in the battle against the coronavirus on Monday. With infection and hospitalization rates skyrocketing, the push to get the Oxford University-developed vaccine into as many arms as possible couldn’t be more urgent. An 82-year-old kidney...
Hospitals on high alert for new, more contagious COVID-19 strain
Hospitals in the United States are on high alert for the new, more contagious COVID-19 strain that first surfaced in the United Kingdom and has since shown up in Colorado, California and now Florida. Florida health officials announced this week they have evidence of the...