Medical worker Christina Mathers attends to an unconscious patient who is holding the patient’s hand in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston, Texas on December 21, 2020. Go Nakamura | Getty Images The new coronavirus strain, which was first discovered in the UK, could already be in circulation…

LONDON – European stocks were higher Tuesday morning, trying to bounce back from a brutal sell-off in the previous session as investor sentiment was shaken by a new strain of coronavirus in the UK The pan-European Stoxx 600 rose 1.1%, with the German DAX and French CAC index rising 1.3% each. The UK’s FTSE 100…

Nurse Hope Alfonso, 34, receives the Pfizer Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) vaccine on December 17, 2020 at Dignity Health Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center in Glendale, California. Lucy Nicholson | Reuters The US is investigating why a handful of people suffered severe allergic reactions shortly after taking Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines, an official from the National…

President Donald Trump speaks alongside HHS Secretary Alex Azar and the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Dr. Robert Redfield, during a tour of the Center for Disease Control following a COVID-19 coronavirus briefing in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, on March 6, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters US Secretary of Health…

[The stream is slated to start at 11:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will hold a press conference on Friday on Covid vaccine sales plans as the state threatens further economic shutdown. During a press conference on Wednesday,…

Employees move boxes of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine as they prepare for shipment at Pfizer Global Supply’s Kalamazoo manufacturing facility in Kalamazoo, Michigan on December 13, 2020. Morry Gash | AFP | Getty Images Officials at Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. government’s program to distribute Covid-19 vaccines to Americans, had to cut doses for several states…

House spokeswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will receive a COVID-19 vaccination from Dr Drs on December 18, 2020 in her office on Capitol Hill in Washington. Brian Monahan (R), attending physician for United States Congress, DC. Ken Cedeno | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell received the Covid vaccine from…

If you’ve had serious side effects after taking a Covid vaccine, attorneys tell CNBC that there is basically no one to blame in a U.S. court. The federal government has granted companies like Pfizer and Moderna liability immunity if something goes wrong with their vaccines. “It is very rare for a blanket immunity bill to…

The Department of Health and Human Services released a comprehensive new report on the state of the U.S. Covid-19 outbreak on Friday, releasing data previously only available to government employees. The new “Community Profile Report” uses data collected by various agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the HHS Protection System to…

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and former executive director of Theranos, arrives for a hearing in the U.S. District Court in the Federal Building of Robert F. Peckham in San Jose, California on Monday, November 4, 2019. Yichuan Cao | NurPhoto | Getty Images A surge in coronavirus cases in California has resulted in a four-month delay…