A medical staff administers a free Covid-19 test at a state drive-through test site in the parking lot of the University of Texas, El Paso campus on November 23, in El Paso, Texas amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak , 2020. Ivan Pierre Aguirre | Reuters Al Weiss went to New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital…

Aviation industry workers hold signs during a protest in the Federal Plaza in Chicago, Illinois on September 9, 2020. Kamil Krzaczynski | AFP | Getty Images U.S. airlines have begun the complicated process of recalling 32,000 workers they took on leave this fall. This is a condition airlines must meet in order to receive additional…

UPS package handlers Jesirae Elzey and Demeatres Ralston unload boxes of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine when it arrives at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky on December 20, 2020. Michael Clevenger | Pool | Reuters Coronavirus vaccine distribution has been slower than US officials hoped, as the number of vaccinations is well below the US government’s target…

The U.S. started vaccinating the population against the coronavirus last week, but mass adoption isn’t a guarantee. Nearly 4 in 10 Americans say they would “definitely” or “probably” not get a vaccine, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center of 12,648 US adults from Nov. 18-29. While this is better than Pew’s September…

Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNBC that “it was very likely” that the US government is close to a deal with Pfizer for up to 100 million additional doses of Covid vaccine. “It’s good news that it sounds very likely,” said Collins. “We’re going to have 400 million doses…

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,…