Tag: Disease outbreaks
Las Vegas officials hold pop-up vaccine clinic at strip club
LAS VEGAS — Wearing a French maid-inspired lingerie costume and high heels, dancer JoJo Hamner waited patiently to get her COVID-19 vaccine in a...
A new reason to swipe right? Dating apps adding vax badges
WASHINGTON — The White House is pushing a new reason to swipe right: vaccination badges and “super swipes” for people who've gotten their coronavirus...
Sniffing Labrador Retrievers join Thai coronavirus fight
BANGKOK — Thailand has started deploying a canine virus-detecting squad in hopes of quickly identifying people with COVID-19 as the country faces a surge...
Artist publishes 100 drawings from Peru’s COVID-19 pandemic
LIMA, Peru — With a pencil and a notebook, artist Edilberto Jiménez walks the streets of Lima and cities in the Andes mountains collecting...
Zimbabwe imposes lockdown in Kwekwe where variant detected
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe has imposed a strict lockdown on the central city of Kwekwe because the COVID-19 variant dominant in India has been...
Analysis: Vaccinations jumped 33% after Vax-a-Million news
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The number of people in Ohio age 16 and older who received their initial COVID-19 vaccine jumped 33% in the week...
Pfizer-BioNTech pledge 2B doses to less wealthy nations
ROME — American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German company BioNTech pledged Friday to deliver 2 billion doses of their COVID-19 vaccine to middle- and...
New England Pats gives flight to China’s vaccine diplomacy
MIAMI — The New England Patriots' team plane has delivered 500,000 Chinese-made COVID vaccines to El Salvador — and in the process inadvertently inserted...
Judge: Iowa school leader improperly kept kids out of school
DES MOINES, Iowa — The leader of Iowa’s largest school district violated his duty by not complying with a law intended to ensure students...
Ontario resuming use of AstraZeneca, but only as second dose
TORONTO — Canada’s most populous province is resuming use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, but only as a second dose for those who'd received...