Jan 24 UK vaccination drive expands as virus toll nears 100,000 By Jill Lawless, Associated Press Health Secretary Matt Hancock said Sunday that three-quarters of the U.K.’s over-80s have received a vaccine shot. He said three-quarters of nursing home residents have also had their first jab. Continue reading
Jan 23 Watch 1:51 COVID-19 shutdowns bring new popularity to old winter pastime By PBS NewsHour After months of shutdowns and restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, some ski resorts are cautiously reopening in the U.S. and Europe. But not in France. Worried about outbreaks, French ski resorts can’t use their chair lifts or open their chalets. Continue watching
Jan 23 Watch 5:06 As Biden gears up to bolster vaccination, logistical challenges remain By PBS NewsHour President Biden has set a goal to vaccinate 100 million Americans in his first 100 days even as federal and state officials grapple with logistical challenges and the absence of a national inoculation plan. ProPublica reporter Caroline Chen joins Hari… Continue watching
Jan 23 UK doctors seek review of 12-week gap between vaccine doses By Jill Lawless, Associated Press A major British doctors’ group says the U.K. government should “urgently review” its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine up to 12 weeks after the first, rather than the shorter gap recommended by the… Continue reading
Jan 22 Watch 4:13 News Wrap: Biden invokes Defense Production Act to ramp up supply of COVID-19 vaccines In our news wrap Friday, President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to ramp up the U.S. supply of COVID-19 vaccines, National Guardsmen are back at the Capitol amid outrage over reports they were ordered out on Thursday, Russia welcomed… Continue watching
Jan 22 Watch Remembering 5 extraordinary lives lost to COVID-19 As we passed the grim milestone this week of more than 400,000 Americans killed by COVID-19, we take a moment to remember another five of the extraordinary lives lost. Continue watching
Jan 22 Mexico looks to reopen schools in just one of its states By Christopher Sherman, Associated Press The federal government is working closely with authorities in the Gulf state and plans to vaccinate as many as 20,000 school staff between Saturday and Tuesday. Continue reading
Jan 22 Belgium bans leisure travel for a month to combat pandemic By Raf Casert, Associated Press Prime Minister Alexander De Croo also says visitors from Britain, South Africa and South America will have to quarantine for ten days to make sure they don't bring dangerous variants into Belgium. Continue reading
Jan 21 Watch 8:19 Biden calls for a wartime approach to the pandemic. What needs to be done? President Biden is calling for a full-scale wartime approach to the pandemic and its impact. Michael Osterholm, an epidemiologist and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, joins William Brangham to discuss… Continue watching
Jan 21 Watch 2:50 News Wrap: Two suicide bombings kill at least 32 people in Iraq In our news wrap Thursday, at least 32 people were killed in a pair of suicide bombings in central Baghdad, new Labor Department numbers continue to highlight the pandemic’s economic toll, President Biden proposes a five-year extension of a longstanding… Continue watching