European Union Greenlights BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine After Agency Gives Safety Approval

A person enters the European Medicines Agency in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Dec. 21, 2020, where the EMA’s human medicines committee is holding an exceptional meeting to conclude the evaluation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. -AP (AMSTERDAM) — The European Union on … Read More

Weekly Update – 18 December 2020

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Greetings from Tyler, Has the United States not gone to WAR, sent battle groups, ships and airplanes, not to mention America’s sons and daughters, to keep foreign nations from falling under the communistic or murderous intentions of their tormentors?  Ever … Read More

Boris Johnson calls crisis meeting over new Covid-19 variant

The troubling new coronavirus strain has also been found in South Africa. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson has summoned ministers after the emergence of the new strain. Reuters. Boris Johnson called senior ministers to an unscheduled meeting on Friday evening … Read More

Germany enters harder lockdown as virus deaths hit new high

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BERLIN (AP) — Germany reported a record level of coronavirus deaths as it entered a harder lockdown Wednesday, closing shops and schools to try to bring down stubbornly high new daily infections. The country recorded 179.8 virus infections per 100,000 … Read More

Fauci tells Americans not to see their kids for Christmas

Doc says an already ‘difficult situation’ means it can’t ‘be business as usual this Christmas’ Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said this week that he and his wife will not be seeing his three adult children … Read More

WHO Team Leaves for Wuhan to Investigate Coronavirus Origin

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Getty Images A World Health Organization research mission to China is expected to arrive in Wuhan next month to investigate how the novel coronavirus jumped from animals to humans, and whether it emerged earlier or in a different place than originally thought. … Read More

Alaska health care worker suffers adverse reaction after COVID-19 vaccine

The woman had an allergic reaction within 10 minutes of receiving the shot. A health care worker in Alaska is doing “well” after suffering an adverse reaction minutes after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, officials said. The health care worker, who was identified as a … Read More

U.S. Treasury labels Switzerland, Vietnam as currency manipulators

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FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Treasury building is seen in Washington WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury labeled Switzerland and Vietnam as currency manipulators on Wednesday and added three new names to a watch list of countries it suspects of taking … Read More

Biden’s pledges could spur more migration. But in a pandemic, the border is unprepared

LOS ANGELES/MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) – After spending eight months of 2019 in a makeshift tent camp in the dangerous Mexican border city of Matamoros, Israel Martinez abandoned his hopes of seeking asylum in the United States. Beaten down by the … Read More

Hunger study predicts 168,000 pandemic-linked child deaths

FILE – In this Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020 file photo, two-year-old Akon Morro, who is anemic and suffers from edema due to malnutrition, sits on the floor of a feeding center in Al Sabah Children’s Hospital in the capital Juba, … Read More

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