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The U.K. Chief Medical Officers have said that the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccines can be given up to 12 weeks following the first dose. But not everyone agrees.

Rapidly spreading variants of Covid-19 are capable of reducing the efficacy of existing vaccines.

Increased rates of infection and deaths in Manaus, Brazil, despite prior infections affecting 76% of the population, serves as a warning that a new variant may reinfect a population infected with an earlier strain. A similar situation may be occurring in Southern California.

The healthcare company did not demand identification of vaccine recipients despite state guidelines.

“As much fun as it is to get together at a big Super Bowl party, now is not the time to do that.”

The Biden administration’s move to ban non-US travelers from South Africa from traveling to the US and extending the ban on travelers from Brazil and parts of Europe is an attempt to limit the spread of new, fast-moving Covid variants. But these efforts may do little to solve the problem.

Humana reported a $458 million fourth quarter loss as the health insurer was hit by costs related to the Covid-19 pandemic and the expense of testing and treating these patients in the last two months of 2020.

The business dealings of Biden’s son, Hunter, came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign.

A second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine raises the vaccine’s efficacy to 82.4% if it is administered after a 12-week gap.

At Casana, Nicholas Conn and Austin McChord are building a high-tech throne to monitor one of the deadliest (and costliest) health issues: heart disease. Now they’re flush with deep-pocketed investors.

Health professionals speculated that the end of 2020 and 2021 may be busy for expecting parents. But unlike after World War Two, it’d seem people are putting off conceiving until the world is a little more certain.

Mandatory calorie labelling of alcoholic drinks could possibly address both alcohol consumption and obesity.

With her "Chicken of the Sea" history, Jessica Simpson offered her reaction to news of the lawsuit.

The vet tranquilliser, xylazine, is now implicated in almost a third of fatal overdoses involving heroin and/or fentanyl in Philadelphia, reveals research published online in the journal Injury Prevention.

For those looking for inflammatory rhetoric on drug prices or executive orders calling for direct price controls, such actions are unlikely to come from the Biden Administration. Rather, it’s expected that an approach will be adopted that builds on Congressional initiatives.

CVS Health will begin to offer Covid-19 vaccinations at pharmacies in 11 states effective Feb. 11 based on state eligibility rules.

Scientists treated the vaccine skeptically after it was rolled out around the world without completing clinical trials.