Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
At Oklahoma COVID ward, staff fight to prevent lonely deaths
By Nick Oxford OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - The patient alarms ping constantly in the COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Oklahoma City, signaling to pulmonologist Dr. Syed Naqvi and the rest of the ICU team ...
Jan 29, 2021
U.S. likely to start COVID-19 vaccination in children by late spring or early summer – Fauci
(Reuters) - The United States will likely start vaccinating children by late spring or early summer, top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said on Friday, as studies are underway to test th...
Jan 29, 2021
Biden says action on COVID-19 stimulus needed “now”
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden said on Friday that Congress needs to take immediate action on his $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief proposal, adding that economists overwhelmingly believe addi...
Jan 29, 2021
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood asked by licensing body to undergo mental health evaluation
By Jan Wolfe and David Thomas (Reuters) - An attorney licensing body on Friday said it has asked L. Lin Wood, a lawyer who played a key role in Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his election defeat,...
Jan 29, 2021
Biden renews deportation relief for Syrians in the United States
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The administration of President Joe Biden on Friday extended deportation relief for several thousand Syrian immigrants living in the United States, an early move t...
Jan 29, 2021
Proud Boys supporter who U.S. says had ammunition cache and made threats pleads not guilty
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Proud Boys supporter who U.S. prosecutors said kept a large weapons cache and made ominous social media posts, including toward a Democratic senator, pleaded...
Jan 29, 2021
J&J COVID-19 vaccine is 72% effective in the U.S., and 66% overall in large trial
By Julie Steenhuysen (Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson on Friday said its single-dose vaccine was 72% effective in preventing COVID-19 in the United States but a lower rate of 66% was observed globally in...
Jan 29, 2021
U.S. FDA extends review period on Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug
(Reuters) - Biogen Inc and partner Eisai Co Ltd said on Friday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has extended the review period by three months for aducanumab, its experimental treatment for Alzhe...
Jan 29, 2021
U.S. COVID vaccine hopeful using Gates Foundation cash to prepare for human trial
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Scientists who normally focus on fixing defective genes said on Friday that up to $2.1 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will help them move their COVI...
Jan 29, 2021
Personal touch, word of mouth: How U.S. rural communities succeed getting COVID-19 shots into arms
By Tina Bellon, Nick Brown and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) - When Juan Carlos Guerra got the call on Jan. 12 that his county would receive 300 COVID-19 vaccine doses the following day, he went straight t...
Jan 29, 2021
