Coronavirus News

NRA Canceling Annual Meeting in Texas Because of COVID

The National Rifle Association announced it has canceled its annual meeting, which had been set to be held next month in Houston, due to concerns over COVID-19. The NRA’s meeting had been set for Sept. 3 through Sept. 5 and …

Louisiana Hospital System Will Require Employees to Get Vaccinated

Louisiana’s largest hospital system, Ochsner Health, said that it is requiring all of its employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Oct. 29. The announcement came a day after the Pfizer vaccine received full approval from the Food and …

Case of 76 in Massachusetts Veterans Home Who Died of COVID Lands in Court

Two former top officials at a Massachusetts veterans home where nearly 80 residents died in one of the country’s deadliest COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility appeared in court Tuesday in an effort to have their criminal charges dismissed. …

More Canadian Businesses to Introduce Vaccine Mandates for Employees: Minister

More Canadian businesses will introduce COVID-19 vaccine mandates for their employees to safely return to the office amidst a growing fourth wave, the minister in charge of procuring inoculations said in an interview. Canada’s five biggest banks last week said …

California College Data Breach Exposes Student Requests for Vaccine Exemptions

Personal information from students at a California college who requested a religious exemption from the COVID-19 vaccine has been posted online after an apparent data breach. The records from about 130 students at California State University, Chico were dumped on …

FDA’s COVID Vaccine Approval Makes Challenges to Mandates Tougher to Win

Formal U.S approval of the Pfizer Inc /BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine will make it nearly impossible to successfully challenge mandates by employers, legal experts said. The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to give full approval to the vaccine …

Illinois County Settles with Nurse Over COVID Request

A southern Illinois county agreed to pay a nurse $35,000 to settle her lawsuit alleging she was fired for refusing to tell local law enforcement which residents had tested positive for the coronavirus. The payment to nurse Diane Kuhl is …

FDA Grants Full Approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine

The U.S. drug regulator on Monday granted full approval to the Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE COVID-19 vaccine, making it the first to secure such Food and Drug Administration validation as health authorities struggle to win over vaccine skeptics during a relentless …

Canada’s Five Biggest Banks to Require Their Employees to Be Fully Vaccinated

TORONTO – Canada’s five biggest banks are mandating that employees working from their offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 this fall, taking a firmer stance than some of their U.S. counterparts and some other Canadian companies. Royal Bank of …

Early COVID-19 Vaccinations Prevented 140,000 Deaths: Study

A new study by Indiana University and RAND Corp. assessed the impact of COVID-19 vaccinations and found that 139,393 deaths were prevented during the first five months of vaccination efforts in the United States. With COVID-19 cases again on the …