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Racing the virus: Why tweaking the vaccines and increasing production is not simple

Biden Advisers Say U.S. Will Remain Vulnerable to Covid Unless Congress Acts

WASHINGTON — President Biden’s coronavirus czar said Wednesday that the United States was woefully behind other nations in tracking potentially dangerous variants of the virus, and used the first White House public health briefing to issue a stark warning that Americans will remain vulnerable to the deadly pandemic unless Congress acts.

“We are 43rd in the world in genomic sequencing — totally unacceptable,” said Mr. Biden’s Covid-19 response coordinator, Jeffrey D. Zients, citing December data from the GISAID Initiative, which provides a global database of coronavirus genomes. In a brief interview later, he corrected himself, saying he had since learned that the United States was now behind 31 other nations.

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England lockdown to last until March, Boris Johnson says as hotel quarantine introduced

England will remain in a national lockdown until at least early March when schools are set to reopen, Boris Johnson has said, and travellers into Britain from high-risk nations will now have to quarantine inside hotels.

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Vaccinated People Are Going to Hug Each Other

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/536123-biden-adviser-says-months-before-everyone-who-wants-a-covid-vaccine-can-get

How Do We End the Pandemic? Panel of Experts Discuss the Path Forward.

Some States lift restrictions gradually amid fears of new variant

Genome Sequencing of Sewage Detects Regionally Prevalent SARS-CoV-2 Variants

E.U. and U.K. Fighting Over Scarce Vaccines

LONDON — The vaccine wars have come to Europe.

For months now, wealthy countries have been clearing the world’s shelves of coronavirus vaccines, leaving poorer nations with little hope of exiting the pandemic in 2021. But a fresh skirmish this week has pitted the rich against the rich — Britain versus the European Union — in the scramble for vials, opening a new and unabashedly nationalist competition that could poison relations and set back collective efforts to end the pandemic.

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Avoid preventive pain relievers before getting a COVID vaccine: Experts

Everyday activities are more dangerous now that new Covid-19 variants are circulating, expert says

WHO Issues New Clinical Advice on Treating COVID-19 Patients

UK's coronavirus death toll passes 100,000 --smallest nation to suffer that many deaths.

...With more than 2 million dead worldwide, people the world over are mourning loved ones, but the U.K.’s toll weighs particularly heavily: It is the smallest nation to pass the 100,000 mark.

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Only one of the world’s 29 poorest countries has started coronavirus vaccinations

South Africa’s president criticizes ‘vaccine nationalism’

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African president and African Union chairman Cyril Ramaphosa has called on richer nations to release surplus vaccine doses to the rest of the world.

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