Public Health

About 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be distributed across the country this week.

Health Canada has approved the Pfizer vaccine, and the first doses will arrive in the country next week.

"This accomplished team of leaders will bring the highest level of integrity, scientific rigor, and crisis-management experience to one of the toughest challenges America has ever faced," Biden said.

Three Indian-made COVID-19 vaccines are currently at different stages of clinical trials.

China currently has five coronavirus vaccines undergoing large-scale, Phase III clinical trials.

Hospitalizations for the new coronavirus have surpassed 100,000 nationwide as public health experts predict the situation will worsen in the coming weeks.

An investigation to determine the source of the outbreak is underway, as health officials say the birds will be "humanely culled."

"As the Bible says, we need to obey God rather than man. A pastor has a responsibility to keep his church safe, but also to keep it open," Jeffress told Fox Business Sunday.

The drug was touted by President Donald Trump earlier in the pandemic.

"The safest way is to celebrate with people in your household," says the CDC. Otherwise, it's masks indoors, social distancing and disposable plates.

Health experts explained to Newsweek that receiving a negative COVID test before heading home for Thanksgiving could still put your family at risk of an outbreak.

The infectious disease expert highlighted how he's been through numerous transitions of power given he's served under six different presidents.

Although the seven-day average fatality rate remained lower than those reported during the first few months of the pandemic, COVID-19 deaths are rising rapidly in the U.S. amid an ongoing outbreak resurgence.

The state's mask mandate was extended to December 11 and has received a flood of opposition following the announcement.

After the U.S. broke its single-day high of new coronavirus cases, Fauci argued Monday that the surge is not a third wave of infections but merely an extension of the first.

MRI scans showed tissue abnormalities in the lungs of 60 percent of patients, in the kidneys of 29 percent, in the hearts of 26 percent and in the livers of 10 percent.

"By targeting specific age groups we can substantially reduce the number of doses required to achieve an equivalent reduction in transmission," researcher Michael Meehan said.

We should have channeled resources to protecting the elderly, rather than overriding everyone's basic rights, forcing young children inside, emptying hospitals and setting up thousands of hospital beds no one needed.

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention removed its updated guidance that suggested the virus could be suspended in the air and transmitted over distances greater than six feet on Monday.

"No matter how hard you work and what you do, the president is going to do something detrimental to keeping Americans safe," former Homeland Security advisor Olivia Troye said.

"It is incredible that the chief law enforcement officer in this country would equate human bondage to expert advice to save lives," the House Majority Whip said.

By using the vaccine as a political tool, Trump is threatening the trust people have in it, and therefore its very value.

An 18-month congressional investigation led by Democrats found that Medicaid official Seema Verma billed taxpayers more than $35 million for media consultants tasked with building her personal brand .

Johan Carlson said keeping messages clear and consistent and getting the public to take personal responsibility helped limit spread of the virus.

Bodega owners are worried their lives are in danger as they attempt to enforce Governor Andrew Cuomo's mask order.

This is not the first time the department has released confusing figures in its coronavirus updates.

The state's department of health refused to release information on which schools and universities have coronavirus cases, after a local reporter submitted an open records request.

"To drop this much unusable and stale data is irresponsible," Governor Ron DeSantis said. DeSantis has ordered the state's department of health to stop using Quest Diagnostics to process COVID-19 tests.

The air quality in the Bay Area is expected to be at a moderate level from Thursday.

Rural hospital closures will force some of Georgia's poorest residents to travel more than 30 miles to seek health care.