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Doctor prepares administrations for the Covid-19 mass vaccination program for health workers on February 4, 2021 in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia.

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It’s no surprise that questions related to the coronavirus pandemic have dominated search engines over the past year.

More recently, and with the advent of vaccines, many people are wondering when and where they can get a sting, what (if any) side effects there might be, what happens after a first dose, and how long immunity to Covid-19 might last .

Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions:

How can I get a coronavirus vaccine?

Where, and equally importantly, when you will be able to get a coronavirus vaccine will depend on several factors including the country and state you are in, your age and, in some cases, your occupation.

Serious illnesses can also help determine how quickly you can get a Covid vaccine.

In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) make recommendations on who should be offered the vaccine first. But each state has its own plan for deciding who to get vaccinated first and how to get vaccines. It is recommended that you contact your local health department for more information in your area.

In the UK, there are four priority groups to receive the vaccine first: the elderly, nursing home workers and health workers, those over 70 and those at extreme risk. The vaccine is to be introduced in more priority groups from mid-February (essentially in all over 50s). To receive the Covid vaccine, you must have been contacted by your doctor and invited to a vaccination appointment.

In the EU struggling with supplies, the first doses are for priority groups set by the block: health professionals and those over 60. However, how and when you can access the vaccine depends on which country you live in. A full list of vaccination strategies and priority groups for EU members of the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control can be found here.

Which Covid Vaccine is the Best?

This question has been asked several times over the past few months, especially after late-stage clinical trials have been conducted by major vaccine manufacturers with varying degrees of effectiveness. It has also become an important question as the regions also deal with supply issues.

For example, the UK approved and introduced the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine before the AstraZeneca vaccine, but it is more accessible because it is made in the UK

James Shaw, 82, receives Oxford University / AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Advanced Nurse Justine Williams on January 4th, 2021 at Lochee Health Center in Dundee, Scotland, UK.

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How much protection do I have after a first dose?

It’s not uncommon for the coronavirus vaccines to require a starting dose followed by a “booster” shot. Many vaccines take two doses to work.

The first dose will cause the body to recognize the virus and prepare your immune system to fight it, while the booster shot will boost the body’s immune response. It’s important to note that it takes some time to build up immunity – it usually takes one to two weeks for immunity to start building – rather than immediately after receiving the first dose.

According to Moderna, the vaccine is 80.2% effective 28 days after the first dose (although it takes some time to build this immunity, it is about 50% effective 14 days after the first dose, data shows), while Pfizer this said and BioNTech’s vaccine is 52%. effective after a single dose, but there have been several studies arguing that it could be lower and higher.

The CDC recommends that the Pfizer BioNTech doses be administered three weeks (21 days) apart and the Moderna doses every one month (28 days) and no earlier than these intervals. When it comes to whether there can be a longer delay before the second dose is given, experts and vaccine makers are divided.

AstraZeneca said Wednesday that increasing the interval before the first and second dose will improve the vaccine’s effectiveness, but Pfizer and BioNTech have warned of the delay, saying there is no data to support such a policy. Delaying the second dose has become standard policy in the UK as it aims to provide partial protection to as many people as possible.

Oxford University researchers published a study on Wednesday that found the AstraZeneca vaccine to be 76% effective from day 22 after the starting dose and up to 90 days afterwards. This resulted in a 12 week interval between doses.

Are there any side effects after the coronavirus vaccine?

Vaccine studies have carefully monitored study participants for side effects from their candidates, and none of the vaccines currently approved in the US, UK or EU have caused any serious side effects.

Anyone who has had a severe allergic reaction to any other vaccine injection in the past will be notified before they receive a coronavirus vaccine. The CDC has a lot of information about vaccines and allergies here.

Policy makers said, however, coronavirus vaccine recipients could expect “very common side effects”, often associated with immunization. According to the UK government, these can be:

• You have a painful, heavy feeling, and tenderness in the arm that you received your injection in. This is usually worst a day or two after the vaccine.
• Feeling tired.
• A headache.
• General pain or mild flu-like symptoms.

The UK guidelines state: “Although a fever for 2 to 3 days is not uncommon, a high temperature is uncommon and may indicate you have Covid-19 or another infection. An unusual side effect is swelling of the glands. ” It is said that if symptoms worsen, individuals should seek advice from a doctor or nurse.

How long does immunity last?

This is the million dollar question that vaccine manufacturers and researchers are still waiting for.

With the coronavirus vaccines currently being rolled out and the vaccination programs just starting in December, it’s too early to know how long the vaccine-induced immune response will last.

Vaccine manufacturers are now also turning to the development of so-called “second generation vaccines” that can be used to combat variants of the virus that has emerged, particularly in Great Britain and South Africa.

On Wednesday, pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and CureVac announced that they were trying to develop Covid vaccines that target multiple variants in one product.

People infected with Covid are likely to have some form of immunity for at least five months, initial results from a large study in the UK in January showed.

Healthcare workers will receive a dose of Sinovac Biotech Ltd.’s Covid-19 vaccine on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at the Istora Senayan Sports Complex in Jakarta, Indonesia.

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Leo Shane III, associate editor of the Military Times, warned CNBC that extremism in the US military “has been an issue for some time” as concerns grow after a number of former and current service members last participated in the Capitol uprising last month.

“We know that especially white nationalist groups, extremist groups, like to recruit military because of their skills,” Shane said. “These are desirable things when you have these crazy ideas about making a revolution … we’ve seen them target social media for years and provide false information.”

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered that all units “step down” within the next 60 days to allow military leaders to speak to their troops about extremism in the ranks. Shane told The News with Shepard Smith that in the next two months it will be important for senior military leaders not only to discuss extremism with one another, but also to speak to the lower echelons.

“Are they going to go to the individual units … where we hear from people … see signs of tattoos, see things on social media that indicate that in some cases people are associated with these violent groups, there are even Nazis -Symbolism, Nazi flags or Nazi paraphernalia that people display, but that’s not always seen by commanders? “Shane said.

The FBI produced a report warning of the infiltration of white nationalists into local law enforcement agencies in 2006. A Department of Homeland Security and an FBI assessment from last year showed that racist terrorist groups have shown unprecedented activity in modern times. Shane noted that the US military “has not yet done a really good poll to find out how many people have been linked to extremism”.

The Military Times has surveyed its readers on the subject of extremism for the past four years and found that “a third of all active troops and more than half of minority service members said they had personally seen examples of white nationalism or ideologically motivated racism in the ranks . “

Shane told host Shepard Smith that the military thinks the third number is high, but they don’t have the date to disprove it either way.

“They haven’t looked at the numbers yet, so these 60 days should be an opportunity for them to really gauge this and get a feel for whether we are right, who we think we are, or whether they are or not.” I’m right and it’s a very small problem, “Shane said.

Tapestry CEO Joanne Crevoiserat told CNBC on Thursday that demand for a heart-shaped Kate Spade bag, which went viral on TikTok last month, had skyrocketed.

“We were able to use that. The bag was sold out. We refilled it. We are learning how we can always better involve this community,” said Crevoiserat in an interview on “Closing Bell” after the retailer had reported better than expected Profit for the vacation quarter earlier in the day.

Crevoiserat’s comments are another example of the potential social media platforms like TikTok for Tapestry and other consumer brands. Its influence also seems to expand categories. For Tapestry, the increasingly popular app boosted sales of its shoulder bag, while toy companies also saw sales growth related to TikTok during the pandemic.

TikTok’s branding potential is best illustrated by Walmart’s decision to pursue a minority stake in the app’s U.S. operations. The deal, first announced in September, is still pending. In October, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon explained TikTok’s appeal to the retail giant in a CNBC interview.

“If you’re watching a TikTok video and someone has a piece of clothing or an item on it that you really like, what if you could just and quickly purchase that item?” McMillon then said on “Squawk Box”. “This is what we see in countries all over the world. And it fascinates us and we want to be part of it.”

Tapestry stock closed Thursday 4.6% to $ 36.18 apiece after the New York-based company beat Wall Street’s profit and loss projections. Despite quarterly revenue of $ 1.69 billion, down 7% year over year, the company saw a triple-digit increase in digital revenue worldwide. In addition to Kate Spade, Tapestry owns the brands Coach and Stuart Weitzman.

The company’s stock is up more than 160% since early August, hitting a new 52-week high on Thursday.

Crevoiserat said she was happy with how Tapestry expanded its e-commerce activities during the pandemic, as consumers stayed at home and made more purchases online. The company’s online sales of $ 1.3 billion in the past 12 months are “more than double what it was a year ago,” she said. “We had the skills and are getting better and better at engaging consumers on digital and social channels.”

At Tapestry, brick-and-mortar locations continue to play an important role despite online growth, said Crevoiserat, who became permanent CEO in October. She had served as an interim since July.

“We think business is still important and we will continue to innovate in our stores,” she said. “We have raised our expectations for productivity and profitability for our business fleet, but we think that physical touch point, this physical manifestation of the brand is important to consumers.”

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Donald Trump gives up – SAY!

He still can’t tweet, but the former president was quick to deliver a sharp resignation letter to a union representing actors, broadcasters and performing artists after the group threatened to remove him.

Trump wrote the brief message on Thursday that he was leaving SAG-AFTRA after the union took steps to potentially revoke his membership for instigating the deadly January 6 riot in the U.S. Capitol.

“Who cares!” Trump wrote to SAG-AFTRA President Gabrielle Cateris, who published the letter publicly shortly after receiving it.

“Although I’m unfamiliar with your work, I take great pride in my work on films like Home Alone 2, Zoolander, and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; and television shows like The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Saturday Night Live, and of course one of the most successful shows in television history, The Apprentice – to name a few! “Trump wrote.

Trump, who was President of the United States until Jan. 20, then boasted, “I’ve also been a huge help to the cable news television business (supposedly a dying platform that doesn’t have much time to get involved in politics) and under created thousands of jobs on networks like MSDNC and Fake News CNN. “

Trump’s letter deliberately misspelled the left-wing MSNBC to link it to the Democratic National Committee.

President Donald Trump is featured on a screen speaking to supporters during a rally to contest US Congress certification of the 2020 US presidential election results on January 6, 2021 in Washington.

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Cateris, a former Beverly Hills 90210 star, filed charges against Trump with the union’s National Board last month for finding a likely reason for violating the organization’s constitution.

Carteris accused Trump of sparking the Capitol uprising and running a misinformation campaign that discredited and threatened the safety of journalists, many of whom are SAG-AFTRA members, the group noted in a statement.

Trump faced possible penalties ranging from reprimand to deportation if found guilty by the union’s disciplinary committee.

This is a small penalty compared to the possible life-long ban Trump is facing from the federal office – including the presidency – on his upcoming second impeachment trial in the Senate.

As with the union, in the Senate case, Trump is accused of instigating the uprising that broke thousands of his supporters into the halls of Congress to overthrow President Joe Biden’s election. Five people died in the riot, including a Capitol policeman who was beaten to death by the crowd.

In his angry letter to Cateris, Trump called the union’s action against him “your obvious attempt to get the attention of the free media to distract from your grim record as a union”.

“Your organization has done little for its members and nothing for me – other than collecting fees and promoting dangerous un-American policies and ideas – which is evident in your massive unemployment rates and lawsuits from famous actors, including a video with the question of ‘why struggles the union not for me? ‘”Trump wrote.

“However, these are policy errors. Your disciplinary errors are even more egregious,” he added.

“I no longer want to be associated with your union. Therefore, this letter is intended to inform you of my immediate resignation from SAG-AFTRA. You have done nothing for me.”

After SAG-AFTRA received his letter, he replied to Trump in two words.

“Thank you,” wrote the group.

Trump’s letter is one of his longest statements in weeks.

Twitter, which Trump used to obsessively communicate with followers, used US politics and berated people and companies who had drawn his anger, and last month banned it permanently “because of the risk of further incitement to violence,” it said Companies.

Trump had been a member of the Acting Union since 1989 and had appeared in a number of films as himself. His resignation does not prevent him from appearing in future film or television projects.

Several people in show business have said that Trump would demand cameos in films that showed his features.

Director Adam McKay said in 2018 that he made a Trump cameo for his 2010 comedy “The Other Guys” because it included Trump Tower.

McKay said he cut the Trump scene because it was “too cheesy”.

Actors Matt Damon and Chris O’Donnell previously shared anecdotes about a similar consideration from Trump.

Macaulay Culkin, the star of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, tweeted “Bravo” last month when a fan of the film posted an edited version of Culkin’s scene at the Plaza Hotel in which his character Kevin Trump asks directions into the lobby.

The version published on Twitter had cut out Trump’s picture.