Category: breaking-news

A Longstanding Ban On Gay And Bisexual Men Donating Blood Has Been Dropped In The U.K.

Britain was one of many countries that, like the United States, barred gay and bisexual men from donating blood in what campaigners brand a discriminatory hangover from the 1980s HIV/AIDS crisis.

Russia Is Developing A Covid-19 Vaccine For Pets And Mink

Domestic animals, such as cats and rabbits, are known to catch the virus and mink, the bedrock of the fur industry, have been culled in their millions due to widespread outbreaks.

New York City May Go Back Into Lockdown, De Blasio Says

There has been a surge in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.

U.S. Coronavirus Hospitalizations Reach All-Time High

Nearly 300,000 people have died of coronavirus.

Trump Reverses Early Vaccination Plan For White House Officials

President Donald Trump announced late on Sunday evening that White House staffers would receive the vaccine “somewhat later in the program” following reports that they would be among the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech jab.

Concert Industry Will Lose More Than $30 Billion Because Of Pandemic, Pollstar Finds

The year was projected to end with $12.2 billion in ticket sale revenue.

AstraZeneca, Oxford To Create Combination Covid-19 Vaccine With Russia’s Sputnik V

Many officials worried about how fast Russia developed and approved the vaccine, launching it without completing the large-scale clinical trials needed to prove safety and efficacy.

New York City To Shut Down Indoor Dining As Infection Rate Surges

New Yorkers will still be able to eat outdoors and order takeout and delivery.

Covid-19 Cases Explode Again in Nursing Homes, But Some States Are Far Worse Than Others

As the pandemic explodes throughout the US, so do covid-19 cases and deaths in nursing homes

Australia Drops Promising Covid-19 Vaccine After Volunteers Falsely Tested Positive For HIV

A protein fragment used in the vaccine could induce an immune response great enough to signal a false positive in some HIV tests.