Historic U.S. COVID vaccine campaign launches with convoy of trucks

Historic U.S. COVID vaccine campaign launches with convoy of trucks

(Reuters) -The first shipments of Pfizer Inc’s COVID-19 vaccine left a factory in Michigan early on Sunday on a convoy of semi trucks, kicking off a historic effort to stop a surging pandemic that is claiming more than 2,400 lives a day in the United States. Mask-wearing workers at a Pfizer factory in Michigan began …

Supreme Court Rejects Trump-Backed Texas Lawsuit Trying To Overturn Election

Supreme Court Rejects Trump-Backed Texas Lawsuit Trying To Overturn Election

Key Facts Texas sued Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia over their voting rules that expanded voting access amid the Covid-19 pandemic, alleging they led to irregularities that justify throwing out the states’ presidential election results. The lawsuit was widely decried by legal experts, who described its arguments as “laughable” and “utter garbage” and projected the …

Viral spread: Americans paying the price for Thanksgiving

Viral spread: Americans paying the price for Thanksgiving

https://youtu.be/tLlv9jfL3ME With some Americans now paying the price for what they did over Thanksgiving and falling sick with COVID-19, health officials are warning people — begging them, even — not to make the same mistake during the Christmas and New Year’s season. “It’s a surge above the existing surge,” said Ali Mokdad, a professor of …

Take Your Vitamin D

Take Your Vitamin D

Professor Roger Seheult, MD explains the important role Vitamin D may have in the prevention and treatment of COVID-19. Dr. Seheult illustrates how Vitamin D works, summarizes the best available data and clinical trials on vitamin D, and discusses vitamin D dosage recommendations. Roger Seheult, MD is the co-founder and lead professor at https://www.medcram.com He …

DA approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

DA approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use

The Food and Drug Administration approved the emergency use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine Friday as a second surging of the coronavirus continues to batter a pandemic-weary nation. The approval clears the way for the first wave of American recipients — millions of health workers and nursing home residents — to begin getting shots in mere …

FDA to approve Pfizer vaccine late Friday after Trump threat

Nick Bit: this is a braking story. The FDA to approve Pfizer vaccine for emergency use today. This was after Trump threatened to fire FDA director Hahn. and led the FDA to speed up its timetable for potential emergency approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine from Saturday morning to later on Friday, according to the Post. …

US Senate approves 7-day extension of govt funding

US Senate approves 7-day extension of govt funding

The U.S. Senate on Friday unanimously approved a one-week extension of federal funding to avoid a government shutdown this weekend and to provide more time for separate negotiations on COVID-19 relief and an overarching spending bill. With the Senate’s vote the measure now goes to President Donald Trump for signing into law. Nick Note: this …

FDA to authorize Pfizer vaccine in ‘couple of days’ – Azar

FDA to authorize Pfizer vaccine in ‘couple of days’ – Azar

Get the damn vaccines out now!’ Trump rages at ‘slow turtle’ FDA for taking so long to approve Pfizer vaccine and tells them ‘stop playing games and start saving lives’ – as Azar says approval may still take ‘a couple of days’ Trump tweeted on Friday that the FDA was a ‘slow turtle’ taking too …

Over 100 Republicans back legal effort to challenge election results

Over 100 Republicans back legal effort to challenge election results

https://youtu.be/om46J9RWfX4 Over 100 Republican lawmakers and 17 GOP state attorneys general are backing a lawsuit at the Supreme Court that seeks to overturn the election results in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. Legal experts say the lawsuit, which was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, is baseless and unlikely to be heard by the …