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Study Finds Growing Acceptance of COVID Vaccine by U.S. Health Care Workers

TUESDAY, March 23, 2021 — Health care workers were just as uneasy as everyone else when COVID-19 vaccines were about to be approved in the United States, with large numbers hesitant to take the shot in early December, a new study reveals. But that hesitancy dwindled over the next few weeks, as health system employees… Read More »

Covid vaccine skepticism will prevent U.S. from reaching normalcy, ICU doctor says

A new poll found that 49% of Republican men said they won’t get vaccinated for Covid-19 and Dr. Vin Gupta said that “will determine the trajectory of this pandemic” to the detriment of all Americans. “All forecasts right now say that we’re going to be past the worst of this with normalcy by say end… Read More »

‘I worry we’re getting numb’ to Covid numbers as states reopen, former CDC director says

Richard Besser, who served as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under former President Barack Obama, said he worries that people are discounting Covid numbers as governors decide to reopen their states.  “In Texas, where they removed the mask mandate, fewer than 10% of people have been vaccinated and the levels… Read More »

Britain’s Covid R rate is still at lowest ever level and outbreak has HALVED in size in a fortnight

JVT warns Britons not to ‘relax’ during this glorious weekend as cases RISE in a fifth of local authorities despite raft of new data showing lowest ever R-rate and dramatic drop in infections, hospitalisations and deaths Department of Health recorded another 8,523 infections and 345 deaths – down by a third week-on-week  More than 520,000… Read More »