Alaska first state to open vaccines to all adults

Fauci: Young children won’t have access to vaccine until 2022 Stanford professor of medicine Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Yale School of Public Health professor Dr. Harvey Risch discuss Alaska has become the first state to drop eligibility requirements for COVID-19 vaccines and allow anyone 16 or older who lives or…

Germany detects first case of Brazilian virus variant

Germany has detected its first case of a newly discovered Brazilian coronavirus variant, feared to be particularly infectious, regional health officials in the state of Hesse said Friday. The infected person recently returned from a trip to Brazil and lab tests on Thursday confirmed he had caught the new strain,…

Europe first region to pass 500,000 virus deaths

Europe became the first region in the world on Thursday to pass the milestone of 500,000 coronavirus deaths, according to an AFP tally based on official sources shortly before 1500 GMT. The 52 countries and territories of the European region counted at least 500,069 deaths—ahead of Latin America and the…

Which Americans will get the COVID vaccine first?

The Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines could be approved in a matter of weeks, but who in the United States will get them first? Though nothing has yet been decided, US experts may differ from other countries in prioritizing “critical workers” who keep society running—potentially even before people at highest…