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California Crisis Deepens; U.S. Allergic Reaction: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders. The first hiccups in the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer Inc. would ship about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week. A health-care worker in Alaska who received the shot experienced the first known severe allergic event in the U.S. ....
California Crisis Deepens; U.S. Allergic Reaction: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders. The first hiccups in the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer Inc. would ship about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week. A health-care worker in Alaska who received the shot experienced the first known severe allergic event in the U.S. ....
“I will be bringing a paper to the executive on Thursday with a number of recommendations,” he told Northern Ireland assembly members on Tuesday. Chief medical officer, Dr Michael McBride, has warned that the region now faces one of the most challenging periods of the pandemic after the most recent circuit break lockdown failed to drive down infections. Hospital capacity across the region stood at 104% on Tuesday. At one point outside Antrim area hospital, 17 ambulances containing patients were lined up outside the emergency department. Doctors were treating patients in the car park. Wendy Magowan, director of operations at the Northern Trust, said one patient had waited 10 hours in an ambulance overnight. ....
CYPRIOT communists branded a ban by British occupying forces a badge of honour as they marked the “milestone” 65th anniversary of a brutal campaign to destroy the left on the Mediterranean island. In statement, the Progressive Party of Working People (Akel) explained that the 1955 campaign had sought to destroy the party, in the British occupying forces’ second attempt to wipe out the Communist Party of Cyprus, as it was known in the 1930s. On December 14 that year, the British colonialists arrested 135 communist leaders and militants, including party general secretary Ezekias Papaioannou. Colonial Governor John Harding banned the party, along with the Cyprus Farmers’ Union (EAK), the Pancyprian Organisation of Democratic Women (PODG) and the Progressive Youth Organisation (AON). ....
California Crisis Deepens; U.S. Allergic Reaction: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders. The first hiccups in the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer Inc. would ship about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week. A health-care worker in Alaska who received the shot experienced the first known severe allergic event in the U.S. ....