America’s split with masks turned out to be a brief hiatus. After getting their shots in the spring and early summer, many people figured they could dump their face coverings for good—a sentiment the CDC crystallized in May, when the agency gave fully immunized people its blessing to largely dispense […]
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With limited vaccines at FL hospitals, those with underlying conditions out of options
Matthew Smith’s favorite mask in his colorful collection of COVID face coverings is the forest green Baptist Health-branded one he received in a Christmas stocking from his adult day program. Smith, 31, was preparing to wear his green mask when he went to get his vaccine at Baptist on Feb. […]
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Black market for illegal coronavirus vaccines thrives with Chinese workers in the Philippines
No coronavirus vaccine has been approved for general use in the Philippines, nor is one expected to arrive, officially, until at least February. It is illegal to import unauthorized pharmaceuticals. But soaring demand among Chinese workers, many of them employed in the Philippines’ lucrative online casinos catering to gamblers in […]
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How HIV Research Laid the Foundation For Covid Vaccines
People are receiving Covid-19 vaccines less than a year after public health authorities discovered SARS-CoV-2, the deadly new coronavirus. How did it happen so quickly? In part, the world can thank decades of frustrating and often fruitless research to find a vaccine for Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, the virus […]
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Here’s How The Coronavirus Vaccines Were Produced So Quickly
Prior to the coronavirus crisis, the fastest a vaccine had ever been developed was back in the 1960s, to prevent mumps. That took four years. The race to come up with a vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been hailed as a historical milestone for undergoing development in under […]