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Small Risk Of Mostly Temporary Facial Paralysis After Covid Shots Is Vastly Outweighed By Benefits Of Vaccination, Study Finds

A large Hong Kong study found an elevated risk of developing Bell’s palsy, a rare kind of facial paralysis, after receiving the Sinovac Covid shot but no “significantly increased risk” with Pfizer’s shot, stressing that the benefits of vaccination outw…

If These 13 States Were Countries They’d Rank Among The Worst Covid Outbreaks In The World

13 of the world’s 20 worst outbreaks of Covid-19 are in U.S. states with very low vaccination rates.

Return Of Mask Mandates: Oregon Becomes Latest State To Reimpose Rules

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said masks were needed to combat the infectious delta variant and rising Covid-19 hospitalizations, which are on track to overwhelm the state’s healthcare system in a matter of weeks.

Hospitalizations Spike In States With Low Vaccination Rates As Unvaccinated Covid Patients Fill ICUs

Nearly half of ICU beds in states like Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi are taken up by Covid-19 patients and many states have warned they are running out of beds.

Documents Show ‘Alarming’ Animal Welfare Violations In CDC Labs, PETA Says

Documents obtained via freedom of information requests by PETA reveal hundreds of incidents including lab animals left without food and water, euthanized due to staff errors or experimented on improperly.

United Airlines Mandates Covid Vaccines For All U.S. Employees

The airline is the first major U.S. carrier to mandate the vaccine for all employees, who will be fired if they don’t comply and are not covered by a limited set of exemptions.

United Airlines Mandates Covid Vaccines For All U.S. Employees

The airline is the first major U.S. carrier to mandate the vaccine for all employees, who will be fired if they don’t comply and are not covered by a limited set of exemptions.

Fully Vaccinated Half As Likely To Catch Delta Covid Variant And Less Likely To Infect Others, Study Finds

There is a one in 13 chance unvaccinated people will get infected with Covid-19 if exposed to someone with the virus, the researchers found.

Most Unvaccinated Americans Don’t Feel Responsible For Surging Covid Cases, Poll Suggests — Here’s Who They Blame

Vaccinated Americans overwhelmingly blame the unvaccinated for rising Covid-19 cases and the spread of new variants, according to a new Axios-Ipsos poll.

Sanofi Buys U.S. Partner Translate Bio For $3.2 Billion As Pharma Giant Bets Big On mRNA Tech

Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna used mRNA to build effective Covid-19 vaccines in record time, a feat Sanofi is keen to build upon in the future.