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COMMUNITY

Lebanon’s COVID-19 spike overwhelms battered hospitals and exhausted doctors

January 18th, 20210 BEIRUT - COVID-19 patients wait on pavements outside hospitals in Beirut, where emergency rooms are packed and intensive care beds full. Inside, exhausted healthcare workers are succumbing themselves - doctors at one hospital, asking not to be named, said around 40 percent of staff were sick or in isolation. Countries worldwide are...

COMMUNITY

COVID-19 variant found in Michigan

January 16th, 20210 LANSING - The first case of new a highly contagious COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7. has been identified in an adult female living in Washtenaw County by the state health authority on Saturday. The person recently traveled to the U.K., where this variant originated, says MDHHS. Close contacts of this individual have been identified and are...

Other Voices

Covid-19 under Apartheid: How Israel manipulates suffering of Palestinians

January 14th, 20210 Israel’s decision to exclude Palestinians from its COVID-19 vaccination campaign may have surprised many. Even by Israel’s poor humanitarian standards, denying Palestinians access to life-saving medication seems extremely callous. Amnesty International, among many organizations, condemned the Israeli government’s decision to bar...

Health

Feds release millions of vaccine doses to Michigan, other states

January 12th, 20210 LANSING - Millions of previously held-up doses of the new COVID-19 vaccine have been released to Michigan and other states. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that they will grant a request from Governor Whitmer and eight other governors and release the millions of doses of the safe,...

COMMUNITY

Wayne County seniors can get COVID vaccines at area hospitals

January 11th, 20210 WAYNE COUNTY - Wayne County residents aged 65 and older can now get COVID-19 vaccines at local hospitals, county officials said on Monday. The plan is part of an overall move by the state to accelerate vaccine distribution beyond health care workers by adding people over 65 and some essential workers like teachers, as more of the...

Health

50 percent of vaccines held back by Trump administration for unknown reason

January 7th, 20210 LANSING — Governor Whitmer has joined several other state governors to call on the federal government to release millions of COVID-19 vaccines held back by the Trump administration for unknown reasons. Whitmer joined Gavin Newsom (CA), Laura Kelly (KS), J.B. Pritzker (IL), Tim Walz (MN), Andrew Cuomo (NY), Tony Evers (WI) and Jay...

Health

4,700 frontliners to get second COVID vaccine dose at Henry Ford

January 5th, 20210 DETROIT — Priority vaccinations for healthcare workers continue this week, with thousands of frontline healthcare workers at Henry Ford Health System branches receiving their second doses of the COVID-19 vaccines in the coming days. Henry Ford prioritizes vaccinations based on employees' role and risk for exposure as well as their...

Health

State distributes 3.5 million free masks, cases surpass 500,000

January 4th, 20210 MICHIGAN — As the state surpassed 500,000 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus, Michigan’s health department is distributing 3.5 million free masks as part of its Mask Up, Mask Right campaign. Free KN95 masks provided by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) will be distributed by community organizations,...

Health

U.S. government partners with pharmacy chains to increase COVID-19 vaccine access

November 12th, 20200 The U.S. government is partnering with regional pharmacy chains and independent community pharmacies to increase access to COVID-19 vaccines whenever they are made available, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Thursday. The partnership will cover about 60 percent of pharmacies throughout the 50 U.S. states,...

Elections

Wall Street climbs on optimism over stimulus deal talks

October 19th, 20200 NEW YORK — Wall Street’s main indexes inched higher at the open on Monday on hopes of a coronavirus vaccine by the year-end, while investors were also encouraged by signs an agreement in Washington on a fiscal package could be reached soon. Last week the White House proposed a $1.8 trillion stimulus package, but House Speaker Nancy...

U.S.A

Trump says coronavirus vaccine possible around Nov. 3 election

August 6th, 20200 WASHINGTON, D.C. — An optimistic President Trump told a radio talk show on Thursday it was possible the U.S. would have a coronavirus vaccine around the time of the Nov. 3 election. Trump's own White House experts have not been this positive about the timeline of a supposed COVID-19 vaccine. In fact, many around the world have...