Covid-19: New York City Is Down to 1,000 First Vaccine Doses
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Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Credit.Frank Franklin Ii/Associated Press
New York City has fewer than 1,000 Covid-19 first doses on hand because of shipment delays caused by snowstorms across the country, the city reported on Saturday. (An earlier version of this briefing failed to note that the number applied to first rather than overall doses.)
Genomic sequencing can detect and track virus variants, but the United States is sequencing relatively few coronavirus test samples. Lab technicians at Duke University prepared samples for sequencing earlier this month.Credit.Pete Kiehart for The New York Times
As Americans anxiously watch the spread of coronavirus variants that were first identified in Britain and South Africa, scientists are finding a number of new variants that seem to have originated in the United States and many of them may pose the same kind of extra-contagious threat.
In a study posted on Sunday, a team of researchers reported seven growing lineages of the coronavirus, spotted in states across the country. All have gained a mutation at the exact same spot in their genes.
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When healthcare workers started administering the first shots of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the US this week, they noticed something strange. There was an extra dose lingering at the bottom of the small glass vial.
“They initially thought that they had incorrectly done it because there was so much left in the vial after they pulled up the five doses,” Erin Fox, Senior Pharmacy Director at the University of Utah told
The New York Times. “They sent us a picture and were like, can we use the extra?”
Schlesinger
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A plaintiff lawyer who compared cigarette manufacturers to Nazis and his client to a torture victim in George Orwell’s novel “1984” “went way over the line” but not far enough to require a new trial, a Florida appeals court said in a decision urging judges to keep a tighter lid on inflammatory closing arguments.
Altria’s Philip Morris unit moved for a mistrial after attorney Scott Schlesinger referred to the movie “Schindler List” in closing arguments in a lawsuit by the estate of the late Sheila Kaplan, a lifelong smoker who died of lung cancer. The jury awarded $5.1 million, including $2.97 million in punitive damages. The appeals court let the verdict stand, saying that while Schlesinger’s arguments were improper they were also apparently unsuccessful, since the jury awarded less than he was seeking.