Experts urge more Americans to get shots amid fears of another COVID spike

Public health experts say the U.S. is currently in a race between vaccinating the population against the coronavirus and a surge in cases following spring break. On Wednesday, the U.S. recorded 58,480 new infections, a 16 percent drop over the last month, and 1,173 deaths.     However, over the last week or so, seven-day rolling averages … Read more

US is on track to hit Biden’s goal of 100 million shots by Friday

President Biden is on track to hit his goal of giving 100 million COVID-19 vaccines in the first 100 days of his presidency by Friday – 59 days into his term.  Biden was panned for announcing a vaccination goal in January that sounded ambitious, but which the country was already on track to reach when … Read more

Jimmy Carr reveals Harry Styles and Jamie Redknapp did shots of Cointreau with Stephen Hawking

‘It was a really weird mix of people!’ Jimmy Carr reveals Harry Styles and Jamie Redknapp got Stephen Hawking DRUNK at one of his wild house parties By Lydia Spencer-elliott For Mailonline Published: 19:02 GMT, 12 March 2021 | Updated: 19:04 GMT, 12 March 2021 His wild house parties are a thing of showbiz legend.  … Read more

Two 16-year-olds arrested after shots fired in car chase ending in crash in Manchester’s city centre

Two 16-year-old boys are arrested after shots are fired in car chase ending in crash in Manchester’s city centre The two 16-year-old boys and a man, 19, have been arrested over the incident which happened just before 8.30pm on Saturday night, police said Witnesses reported seeing a car chase with occupants of one vehicle firing … Read more

NASA’s Perseverance’s most stunning shots of the Red Planet from its first week on Mars

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent the last week on the surface of Mars and in that short time has already sent back thousands of photos – including a cheeky selfie. The latest rover from the US space agency landed on the Red Planet just before 21:00 GMT on Thursday, February 18 after a hair raising … Read more

Pythons from Florida Everglades could help produce COVID shots, researcher says

A researcher and python hunter by the name of ‘The Wildman’ have joined forces to explore what they believe could be used to fight the coronavirus – and it is hiding in the Florida Everglades. Python hunter Dustin Crum and Daryl Thompson, a researcher, and entrepreneur with Global Research and Discovery Group out of Winter … Read more

Pharmacists say combining leftover COVID-19 vaccine could increase daily shots by 10%

Pharmacists say that combining leftover COVID-19 vaccines from different vials could save thousands of doses. The process, called ‘pooling,’ involves taking residual vaccine left behind in one bottle and amalgamating it with a little bit from a second bottle to create one full dose.  One pharmacy team at Inova Health System, a nonprofit hospital network … Read more

FDA’s central system for tracking the safety of COVID-19 shots is not functional

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does not have a functional central system for monitoring the safety of coronavirus vaccines, officials admitted to the New York Times.  More than 48 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been given in the US, Bloomberg data shows.  Yet the safety of those shots is currently tracked by a … Read more

Dua Lipa releases new single We’re Good with moonlit cover shots and Titanic-inspired music video

Since the release of her first single in 2015, she has become one of the music world’s hottest young artists. And on Friday, Dua Lipa, 25, released her new single We’re Good with a dramatic Titanic-inspired music video, along with sizzling moonlit cover shots for the new Moonlight Edition of her Future Nostalgia album. The singer posed … Read more

FEMA will help the US open three mass vaccination centers in Texas to give 10,000 shots a day

One in 10 Americans has received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine as immunization efforts continue to be ramped up, new data reveal. Currently, 32.8 million people in the U.S. – or 10 percent of the population – has received an initial dose and 9.8 million – 2.9 percent – are fully inoculated, … Read more