Pfizer said that three shots of its mRNA COVID-19 vaccine offer protection for children aged 5 and younger, according to an announcement Monday, as the pharmaceutical giant indicated that it will hand its data to federal health officials in its push to vaccinate small children. Despite Pfizer’s proclamation on Monday, polls have suggested that parents of children […]
A major pharmaceutical company this week fired many employees who refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Syneos Health is a global pharmaceutical outsourcing company with some 28,000 employees in more than 110 countries. It contracts with bigger pharmaceutical companies including COVID-19 vaccine maker Johnson & Johnson/Janssen. While J & J employs pharmaceutical representatives, it also […]
Six gunmen fired more than 65 rounds on a Philadelphia street, sending nighttime pedestrians on a busy block teeming with markets and restaurants scrambling for cover and injuring six people, at least one of them critically, police said Friday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to hold off on giving COVID-19 booster shots through September so that poorer nations can provide citizens with their first dose of the vaccine. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that some low-income countries, including many in Africa, have less than two percent of their adult populations fully vaccinated. […]
The White House pushed back on the World Health Organization’s (WHO) calls for a moratorium on distributing COVID-19 booster shots, with press secretary Jen Psaki calling it a “false choice.” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged wealthier nations including the United States and companies controlling the vaccine supply to prioritize addressing providing more doses […]
Germany and the UK have both announced plans to offer a COVID-19 booster shot as soon as next month. The booster shot in Germany will be prioritized for those deemed to be more at risk, such as people who don’t have strong immune systems or the immunocompromised, from next month, while in the UK, some […]
Top Biden administration officials are now signaling that certain groups will need COVID-19 booster shots, a shift from earlier this month when they said the argument for boosters lacked evidence. Government officials are “actively looking into ways” to let people who do not have strong immune systems, or the immunocompromised, gain access to boosters, Dr. Amanda […]
COLUMBIA, S.C.—A Charter Communications worker was killed in a South Carolina shooting and standoff that also wounded two public workers repairing a sewer main, a deputy, and a woman inside the home where the shooter was barricaded, authorities said. The man who shot the workers fixing the sewer, 45-year-old Shannon Earl Smith, died from at […]
After a postal worker in Chicago was shot and critically injured, the US Postal Inspection Service offered a $50,000 reward for information. The 24-year-old female letter carrier was “shot multiple times while working” Thursday on the South Side around noon, the Chicago Police Department said in an incident release. It seems she was not targeted, […]
Shots were reportedly fired Tuesday at a school in suburban Denver, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office tweeted: “Unstable situation, shots fired at STEM school at Ridgeline and Plaza.”
LEXINGTON, Ky.—A Kentucky coroner says a newborn girl delivered following the fatal shooting of her pregnant mother has died. A statement from the Fayette County Coroner’s Office says 4-day-old Amelia Johnson died Tuesday night, March 19, from a lack of oxygen due to the death of her mother. Her manner of death was listed as […]
ISTANBUL—Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn Monday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. Officials said two people with criminal records were detained. There were no casualties in the fleeting attack, in which three of the six bullets fired hit the […]
