Category: Vaccines

Stick to Your Word, EU Tells Vaccine Makers, as Supply Chains Wobble

VILNIUS—Europe urged pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday to stand by their word in supplying coronavirus vaccines amid a series of delivery cuts and delays, as hopes for a quick fix to COVID-19 slowly crumble into recrimination. The world has hailed the super-fast development of vaccines as the best chance of escaping the year-long pandemic, which has…


Disneyland Vaccine Site Reopens Following Wind Closures

SANTA ANA (CNS)—After two days of closures due to high winds, the COVID-19 vaccination site at Disneyland reopened Jan. 21, and county officials plan to open another large-scale location to administer doses this weekend. The Disneyland super point of distribution (POD) site was closed Jan. and Wednesday as Santa Ana winds battered much of Southern…


Amazon Offers to Help Biden Administration With CCP Virus Vaccine Distribution

E-commerce giant Amazon has offered to help the Biden administration with accelerating the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, while seeking to get its employees inoculated as early as possible. Amazon Worldwide Consumer CEO Dave Clark said in a letter to President Joe Biden on the day of his inauguration (pdf) that the company is willing…


UK Reports 1,820 CCP Virus-Related Deaths, Setting New Daily Record

The UK recorded 1,820 deaths related to the CCP virus on Wednesday, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic began last spring. According to newly released official data from Public Health England, a further 1,820 people died within 28 days of a positive CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus test. This is over 200 more…


England’s NHS in Most ‘Precarious’ Position for 72 Years Says Its Chief

England’s National Health Service is struggling more amid the CCP virus pandemic than it has in its 72-year history, its Chief Executive Officer said on Sunday. NHS chief Sir Simon Stevens told the BBC’s Andrew Marr program that hospitals across the country continue to fill up with Covid-19 patients and “staggeringly” another person is admitted…


Senior, Health Workers, Flood Disneyland for Vaccine Despite Tech Troubles

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Disneyland’s vaccine super site was flooded with patients for the second day running Jan. 14, but as the remedy against COVID-19 becomes more readily available, many patients say they’ve struggled to make an appointment. Orange County residents can book a timeslot to receive the vaccine through the county’s Othena system, which takes reservations online…


Seniors, Health Workers, Flood Disneyland for Vaccine Despite Tech Troubles

ANAHEIM, Calif.—Disneyland’s vaccine super site was flooded with patients for the second day running Jan. 14, but as the remedy against COVID-19 becomes more readily available, many patients say they’ve struggled to make an appointment. Orange County residents can book a timeslot to receive the vaccine through the county’s Othena system, which takes reservations online…


Scientists Say Official Study Shows Natural Immunity to CCP Virus Similar to Vaccine Immunity

The level of natural immunity people acquire from having caught the CCP virus in the past is high and likely to be roughly the same as the protection they will get from vaccination against the disease, scientists have said a new official study shows. Public Health England (PHE) said in a media release on Thursday…


Hundreds Line Up for the Opening of Disneyland Vaccination Center

Cars lined up early in the morning Jan. 13 at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim for the opening of Orange County’s first super POD (point of distribution) site designed to facilitate COVID-19 vaccinations for up to 7,000 county residents per day. More than 200 people waited in long lines for nearly two hours outside the tents…


Doctor Questions Orange County’s Approach to Assuaging Vaccine Fears

The Orange County Board of Supervisors (OCBS) has hired a public relations firm to help ease the public’s COVID-19 vaccination concerns, but the move is not sitting well with everyone. “When you have to persuade, through public relations, to accept a vaccination, it brings up a question about public health: Since when should public health…