#covid-vaccine

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Three years after closing its brewpub, Lagunitas Brewing is reopening on April 13 to the general public in North Lawndale, near Douglass Park.The closure was a part of a glut of shutters as restaurants coped with their health, government mitigation measures, and dwindling consumer confidence during a pandemic without a COVID vaccine.

In a picturesque corner of western Wisconsin, a growing right-wing conservative movement has rocketed to prominence.They see the broader America as a dark place, dangerous, where democracy is under attack by a tyrannical government, few officials can be trusted and neighbors might have to someday band together to protect one another.

Chicago and Cook County are once again at a "medium" COVID-19 threat level, the Chicago Department of Public Health announced Friday.Both the city and county had previously been at "low" threat since late September.However, CDPH Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady predicted in recent weeks that the area's risk level would rise.

Americans may be offered a single dose of a Covid vaccine each fall, much as they are given flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Monday.To simplify the makeup and timing of the shots, the agency also is proposing to retire the original vaccines and to offer only bivalent doses for primary and booster shots, according to briefing documents published on Monday.

NurPhoto / Contributor via Getty Moveable explores the future of transportation, infrastructure, energy, and cities.People who refused to get the COVID vaccine are far more likely to get into a traffic crash requiring hospitalization, a recently published study found, adding evidence to the theory that anti-vaxxers often demonstrate other kinds of dangerous antisocial behavior.

(Left) A computer-generated image of the omicron variant of the coronavirus.(Right)SARS-CoV-2 is shown in this colorized transmission electron micrograph.Uma Shankar Sharma/Getty Images and Science Source Even though the public's interest in the pandemic began to wane in its third year, COVID still grabbed the top spots for our most-read stories.

Switzerland's compulsory basic insurance  KVG in German and LaMal in French and Italian  is quite comprehensive and includes coverage for illness, medications, tests, maternity, physical therapy, preventive care, and many other treatments.It also covers accidents for those who do not have accident insurance through their workplace.

The Prime Minister must ensure people who suffer serious side effects from Covid vaccines are properly compensated, a Conservative former minister said.Former attorney general Sir Jeremy Wright raised the case of his constituent Jamie Scott, a 44-year-old man who remains seriously disabled following a Covid vaccine, at Prime Minister's Questions.

Judges were asked this week to determine whether or not vaccine mandates introduced by the previous government during the pandemic  which applied to healthcare and school staff as well as over-50s  breached the fundamental rights set out by Italy's constitution.Italy became the first country in Europe to make it obligatory for healthcare workers to be vaccinated, ruling in 2021 that they must have the jab or be transferred to other roles or suspended without pay.

BROOKLYN - Nets general manager Sean Marks wasn't bitting when he was asked about Kyrie Irving's departure from Brooklyn.Irving had told reporters the day prior that his exit from Brooklyn "was in the works like after Year 1."It was just the latest comments from Irving, who has been taking pointed shots at the organization since he was traded on Sunday.

BROOKLYN - James Harden was booed when he was introduced in the Philadelphia 76ers lineup, he was booed when he touched the ball at the start of the game and was called a "traitor" by some Nets fans when he stepped to the free throw line.None of that seemed to matter to the man known as the beard and after the Sixers had defeated the Nets, he appeared to get a few things off his chest about his time in Brooklyn.

Hours after acknowledging that the Miami Marlins bullpen needed work, general manager Kim Ng got to work by trading JJ Bleday to the Oakland Athletics for left-handed reliever A.J. Puk.The one-for-one swap of former first-round MLB Draft picks is now official.The #Marlins have reportedly acquired LHP A.J. Puk ($4.1M median trade value) from the #Athletics in exchange for OF JJ Bleday ($4.2M).The deal is accepted by our model.-

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Rishi Sunak oversaw wasteful government spending and departmental losses that cost the taxpayer up to 26.8 billion, Labour has said.The Opposition party compiled a dossier of the extensive waste under Mr Sunak during his time as Chancellor and as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2021-22 and 2019-20.

The decision to suspend the Conservative whip from Andrew Bridgen means there are now 15 independent MPs in the Commons, one more than the number of Liberal Democrats.Seven of those MPs were formerly Labour members, while six used to be Conservatives.The SNP and Plaid Cymru have both suspended the whip from one of their members.

Cutting-edge research into developing personalised mRNA vaccines for cancer patients will be accelerated following the UK's successful Covid-jab rollout.BioNTech, the German firm that co-produced a Covid vaccine with Pfizer, will partner with the government to deliver 10,000 personalised therapies to patients in the UK by 2030.

A conspiracy theorist has been found guilty of plotting terror attacks on the UK's communication systems and motorways to topple the British government.Oliver Lewin, 38, from Coalville, Leicestershire, believed the spread of coronavirus had triggered the emergence of a Chinese communist system in the UK, and that the country was being controlled by a Jewish elite.

Moderna said people without insurance will be able to get its COVID vaccine at no cost after the U.S. government bows out.But patients will have to use the company's cumbersome assistance program.AILSA CHANG, HOST: Once the government's COVID vaccine supply runs out, the shots will be available on the commercial market.

Licensed healthcare professionals on YouTube can now apply to get panels added to their videos that mark them as reliable health information sources, the company said Thursday.They'll also be able to have videos added to health content shelves, which compile information on specific medical conditions.

Fast forward and imagine it is January 5, 2025.Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2024 election in December, defeating Donald Trump once again.But Trump-loyal militias have mobilized, kidnapping election officials and demanding they confess to fraudulently manipulating vote totals.In Arizona, where the most kidnappings have occurred, the governor refuses to call in the National Guard.

Oregon's attorney general sued the Center for Covid Control, which was operating three questionable COVID-19 testing sites in the Portland area.In the height of the first Omicron surge in late 2021, COVID testing-both at-home tests and appointments with testing clinics-was scarce.One independent testing company, the Center for Covid Control (CCC), opened three testing sites in the Portland area during the surge, offering rapid and antigen testing services for free.

This weekend's storm is hitting Brooklyn in different ways, and the New York Blood Center is calling for blood donors as the "tripledemic" of RSV, influenza and COVID-19 - coupled with the upcoming holidays - threaten an already unable supply across the five boroughs.The past two years have brought chronic blood shortages nationwide, the first-ever national blood crisis in the United State's.

Fast forward and imagine it is January 5, 2025.Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2024 election in December, defeating Donald Trump once again.But Trump-loyal militias have mobilized, kidnapping election officials and demanding they confess to fraudulently manipulating vote totals.In Arizona, where the most kidnappings have occurred, the governor refuses to call in the National Guard.

Respiratory viruses including flu and RSV are circulating across the United States at high levels, overwhelming children's hospitals and prompting concern among parents of young children.Most kids who get sick this season will recover quickly with home care, but some will need medical attention.What should parents watch for, and how might they know it's time to call their pediatrician or go to the ER? CNN spoke with Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, director of pediatric telemedicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, about warning signs of serious illness and the steps parents and children can take to help protect themselves from germs.

Welcome to this year's flu season.This year's flu strain has already begun spreading across the United States, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.There have been at least 880,000 cases of influenza, nearly 7,000 hospitalizations and, tragically, 360 deaths from the flu this fall, including one pediatric death.

If you are a parent, you are most likely hearing about the surge of RSV and Other Respiratory Illnesses affecting young children with the arrival of flu season.Being shared is that doctors across the country are seeing a resurgence in RSV, a common respiratory illness that can leave some kids in need of hospitalization.

For almost a month now, Sean Merriam has been walking around town with a stuffy nose and a mysterious cough that keeps clattering in his lungs.He knows it's not Covid, because he tests regularly, and it's not the flu, which he recovered from a few weeks ago.The culprit may be the respiratory syncytial virus, known as R.S.V., that has been surging this season, but he's not sure.

White House public health officials offered cautious optimism that Americans could begin to move on from coronavirus, but cautioned that keeping immunity vaccination up-to-date and combating scientific disinformation remained key for the country to successfully emerge from the three-year Covid-19 pandemic.

While it feels like ages ago, the Lakers and Kyrie Irving's dance around one another this past offseason was only a small handful of months ago.So, so much has changed since it felt inevitable Kyrie would be donning the purple and gold during the summer.There were a number of stops and starts and hold-ups throughout the whole saga.

President Joe Biden is scheduled to get his updated Covid-19 booster shot and urged the public to get theirs to ensure a healthy holiday season.r Biden is set to appear at the White House with the doctors who are leading administration efforts against the spread of the coronavirus.They were set to be joined by executives from several major drug store chains, which are mounting renewed efforts to help people to get a dose of Covid-19 vaccine that has been reformulated to target the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of Omicron, the most dominant strains in the United States.

We're not surprised, just really disappointed.Reuters reports that next year, pharma giant Pfizer plans to nearly quadruple the per-dose price of their COVID-19 vaccine, jacking costs from $20 to $30 per shot to $110 to $130.Particularly striking: Experts, per  Reuters, estimate that at that price, the vaccine cost 10,000 times what it costs Pfizer to actually make it.