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Biden announces the U.S. will donate 17M COVID doses to the African Union
At a meeting with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, President Biden announced that the U.S. will donate 17 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to the African Union. Biden said the move would supplement an earlier 50-million dose donation from the U.S. to the AU.
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FDA advisory panel unanimously recommends Moderna booster for certain at-risk groups
On Thursday, a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously to recommend Moderna booster shots at a half dose of 50 micrograms for emergency use authorization for similar at-risk groups as the Pfizer booster vaccine. The decision now goes to the FDA, which is expected to make a final decision in the coming days.
NewsYahoo News UK20 COVID hotspots as UK records second highest infections in the world
Only the US is recording more daily cases than the UK.
HealthThe GuardianCovid vaccines for US children are coming but challenge will be persuading parents
Covid vaccines for US children are coming but challenge will be persuading parents. Authorization for kids aged 5-11 is inching closer but only a third of parents plan to take up the shots as soon as vaccines are ready
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WH: ‘Politics’ is why Gov. Abbott is challenging vaccine mandates
On Tuesday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki was asked why she thinks Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is banning federal vaccine mandates, to which she replied that he is putting politics over the health of the people he is governing.
NewsYahoo News UKThe 115-word passage that sums up how Boris Johnson's government wasted £37bn during the pandemic
NHS Test and Trace failed in its objectives and was not good value for the taxpayer, the report concluded.
NewsYahoo News UKRevealed: The region where unemployment is recovering slowest after COVID
Many areas of the UK have rebounded strongly since the end of lockdown, but others are struggling.
NewsYahoo News UK'Why can’t you say sorry?': Minister refuses to apologise 11 times over damning COVID report
Cabinet Office minister Stephen Barclay dodged repeated calls for an apology for the government's handling of the pandemic.
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Mayorkas: Title 42 'is not an immigration policy that we in this administration would embrace'
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas told Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff that “it’s a heartbreaking thing to see” asylum seekers continuing to be turned away from the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump-era Title 42 authority. During the discussion, which was originally broadcast as part of the Soufan Center’s 2021 Global Security Forum in Doha, Qatar, Mayorkas added that Title 42 “is not an immigration policy that we in this administration would embrace, but we view it as a public health imperative as the Centers for Disease Control has so ordered.”
NewsYahoo News UKJeremy Vine left 'unnerved' after anti-vaxxers turn up at his home
Broadcaster Jeremy Vine shared videos of anti-vaxxers turning up at his home to serve an 'anti-vaxx writ'.
NewsYahoo News UKParents threaten to sue school if children are given coronavirus vaccines without consent
Parents at Tretherras School, in Newquay, Cornwall, have signed a "cease and desist" legal notice.
NewsYahoo News UKHundreds of schools urged to bring back bubbles and contact tracing amid rise in COVID cases
Staffordshire County Council has reportedly recommended that COVID measures including bubbles and contact-tracing should be reintroduced in schools in the county.
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Biden on COVID vaccinations: 'Finish the job'
On Thursday, President Biden delivered remarks in Chicago and highlighted the importance of COVID-19 vaccine requirements in the workplace. He said that Americans have a plan and the tools, “we just have to finish the job.”
NewsYahoo News UKThe UK’s 46 COVID hotspots as daily cases top 40,000
More than 40,000 new cases of COVID were reported in the UK on Thursday for the first time since early September.
HealthYahoo News UKNorovirus cases up by nearly 40% as hundreds of outbreaks reported in the last month
Most of the outbreaks were recorded in educational settings.
HealthYahoo News UKLong COVID finally given formal definition by the World Health Organization
Long COVID has remained one of the more mysterious aspects of the coronavirus pandemic.
NewsYahoo News UKUnder-18s are facing 'one of their worst periods of pandemic' as hospital admissions rise
Experts have voiced concerns over rising COVID rates among schoolchildren, including hospitalisations.
CelebrityYahoo Celebrity'Breaking Bad' actor Giancarlo Esposito's message to the unvaccinated: 'Go to a small island and sequester yourself'
The "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul" has a plan for how to handle the unvaccinated.
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Biden administration plans to quadruple the number of at-home tests
On Wednesday, the Biden administration announced its plans to boost rapid at-home COVID-19 tests with an additional $1 billion investment. Jeffrey Zients, the White House's coronavirus response coordinator, said the number of at-home tests available to Americans is on track to quadruple by December.
NewsYahoo News UK8 EU countries overtake the UK’s vaccination rate: ‘We have now slipped considerably’
The UK has fallen behind countries like Portugal and Spain.
NewsYahoo News UKAnti-vaxxers 'ambushed pupils outside school and showed them images of dead children'
Police are investigating after the alleged incident outside St Thomas More Catholic School in Blaydon, Tyne and Wear.
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What to know about the flu shot and COVID vaccine: Yahoo News Explains
Health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shot as well as the COVID-19 vaccine if they are eligible in an effort to prevent hospitals from being even more overwhelmed than they already are by COVID. Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency physician, says “it’s definitely possible” that we may see a double whammy of the flu season and COVID-19. Wen explains why it’s important to get the flu shot now and how it comes into play with the COVID-19 vaccine.
NewsYahoo News UKHospital patient, 67, 'saved' by anti-vaxxers dies from COVID
Joe McCarron, 67, was rushed back into hospital days after being urged to leave Letterkenny University Hospital by anti-vaxxers and later died.
NewsYahoo News UKDad-of-four died of COVID on Christmas Day after ambulance sent to wrong address
Steve Cooke was left struggling to breathe for hours while self-isolating at his home in Chatham, Kent, on Christmas Day.
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WH touts successful vaccination rate among African Americans, Latinos
On Tuesday, White House pandemic response coordinator Jeff Zients cited new findings from the Kaiser Family Foundation that showed vaccination rate gaps were closing among ethnic groups: 71 percent of white Americans, 70 percent of African Americans and 73 percent of Latinos have all received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
