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U.S. life expectancy dropped by a year in the first half of 2020, due to COVID-19 and overdose deaths, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
Pfizer plans to test a booster shot to address the South African coronavirus variant. (Reuters)
But making it available is likely to take months, says NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD. (The Hill)
The Biden administration will give $4 billion to COVAX, the global COVID-19 vaccine distribution program. (Washington Post)
Rich countries may end up with a billion more COVID-19 vaccine doses than they need, according to anti-poverty advocacy group ONE Campaign. (Reuters)
As of 8:00 a.m. ET on Friday, the unofficial COVID-19 count in the U.S. stood at 27,896,700 cases and 493,119 deaths, up 68,899 and 2,402, respectively, from Thursday.
Food and food packaging aren't a "credible" source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission, FDA and USDA say.
The Vatican backed away from plans to fire employees who refuse COVID vaccination without a good health reason, after getting blasted on social media. (Reuters)
Should spreading anti-vaccine misinformation be a crime? The BMJ has a debate.
Convalescent plasma is off the table for COVID-19 at Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. (Wall Street Journal)
Pandemic-related job loss cost 30,000 lives in the United States alone. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A tussle over herd immunity: there are too many unknowns to predict when the U.S. will see it, according to NPR, while MedPage Today Editor-in-Chief Marty Makary, MD, in the Wall Street Journal, said April.
A Massachusetts CVS pharmacy underdosed shots by giving the Pfizer dose for the Moderna vaccine to an undisclosed number of people. (WCVB5)
A man in Denmark got four months in prison for coughing at police officers -- while yelling "corona" -- during a routine traffic stop. (Reuters)
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