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The director of the NIH is now saying that the COVID-19 vaccine may not be ready until 2021. During a press conference, Dr. Francis Collins of the National Institute of Health said: “I’m cautiously optimistic that by the end of 2020, there will be at least one vaccine that has reached that stage of an […]
Due to a “Steady increase of in the number of positive COVID-19 numbers on campus,” St. John Fisher College will be transitioning to a remote learning environment for the rest of the semester. College officials released a statement that read: “In addition, our most recent wastewater surveillance results show an increase in the presence of […]
Dr. Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief company executive made an online announcement on Friday, saying that the vaccine they are working on will not be available for public use by the election. The pharmaceutical company should know if the vaccine is effective in the next couple weeks. If those trials are successful, the vaccine should be […]
According to Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza, Monroe County has the lowest rate of COVID-19 cases in the country when counting communities that have more than 500,000 people living there. “We’ve seen new cases go up recently in the past few weeks, but that’s mainly attributed to an […]
A man from Nevada, who already had the coronavirus earlier this year just tested positive for the virus again, making him the first person alive to have caught COVID-19 twice. He’s fine now, but it doctors aren’t very optimistic about how safe people are thought to be after they get the virus the first time. […]
The white house is claiming that the president no longer has the coronavirus, but hasn’t actually said that he has tested negative for the disease. This announcement came during an interview with FOX news when President Donald Trump said: “It looks like I’m immune for, I don’t know, maybe a long time and maybe a […]
Emergency room doctors are beginning to see an uptick in COVID-19 cases all across the country, sparking fear of a second wave. According to Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency medicine physician with Brown University in Rhode Island, “We are all seeing increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients who are coming into our ER’s, who are getting […]
The next presidential debate that was scheduled to be in Miami has been postponed due to the President’s current COVID-19 diagnosis. Originally, the debate was going to be switched to a virtual format, but after two days of arguing back and forth between the commission and each campaign a decision has been made. This means […]
Poll workers are receiving extra training this year to make sure everything stays sanitized at the voting stations. The new rules and regulations include sanitizing procedures to make sure COVID-19 doesn’t spread during the polling. Diane Gibson, with the Monroe County Board Of Elections released a statement, saying: “We do have a video that shows […]
Yesterday, singer Trey Songz let his fans know that he has tested positive for COVID-19, adding that he’s “down, but not out.” He made the announcement via social media in a post that read: “Here with a very important message to let you know I tested positive for COVID-19,” Songz said in a video message […]
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