WASHINGTON (AP) — With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously to learn when it’s their turn. Federal regulators begin tackling that question ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida has issued its first fine to a county it says violated a new state law banning coronavirus vaccine mandates and for firing 14 workers who failed to get the shots. The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday issued the $3.5 million fine for Leon County, home to the state capital, saying the municipality violated Florida's “vaccine passport" law, which prohibits businesses and governments from requiring people to show proof of COVID-19 vaccination. “These are people that, presumably, have been serving throughout this whole time and now all of a ...
SALT LAKE CITY — With the governor of Texas leading the charge, conservative Republicans in several states are moving to block or undercut President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates for private employers before the regulations are even issued. The growing battle over what some ...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s coronavirus death toll reached another once-unfathomable milestone — 70,000 people — on Monday as the state emerges from the latest infection surge with the lowest rate of new cases among all states. Last year at this time, cases in the state ...
ROME (AP) — Moderna has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up the company's own production is the best way to increase the global supply, the company’s chairman said Monday. In an interview with The Associated Press, Noubar Afeyan also reiterated a pledge Moderna made a year ago not to enforce patent infringement on anyone else making a coronavirus vaccine during the pandemic. “We didn’t have to do that," Afeyan said. ”We think that was the right, responsible thing to do.” He added: “We want that to be ...
STATE COLLEGE — Mount Nittany Health in State College has updated its COVID-19 numbers. As of Friday, Mount Nittany Health was caring for 30 COVID positive inpatients at Mount Nittany Medical Center, ranging in age from 14 to 86. In September, Mount cared for 136 COVID positive inpatients, compared to 15 COVID positive inpatients in September 2020 — more than 9 times the number of patients compared to last year. The average daily census of COVID positive inpatients has climbed from 27 in September to 33 in October — just two weeks into the month — with a total 25 ...
