Manitoba reported 46 new cases of the UK COVID-19 variant Friday public health officials said, bringing the province’s total to over 100. Of the confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant of concern, 44 from Winnipeg health region and two from the Southern Health. The total number of confirmed cases of...
AT FIRST, the scene at DeGray Lake in Arkansas looked like a massacre. In 1994, 29 bald eagles were found dead nearby. It was the biggest undiagnosed die-off of bald eagles in history, and it was only getting started. By 1996, at least 70 eagles had died across several Arkansas...
Walgreens received permission to start booking its own COVID-19 vaccine appointments from the West Virginia Joint Interagency Task Force. James Hoyer, director of the task force, said the move is part of the "parallel paths" initiative, where different outlets (pharmacies, local doctors, local health care providers) will start taking a...
A team of international scientists that includes a Canadian researcher said it has mapped, for the first time, the magnetic fields surrounding a black hole. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration team produced an image that shows electromagnetic fields that look like a "crisp swirl" of light around the black hole...
Understanding the evolution of the polar sea ice is not enough to study the effects of the climate change on marine ecosystems in Antarctic seafloors. It is also necessary to determine the intensity of phytoplankton local production during the Antarctic summer, as stated in a new study by a...
When the human immunodeficiency virus infects cells, it can either exploit the cells to start making more copies of itself or remain dormant--a phenomenon called latency. Keeping these reservoirs latent is a challenge. A new paper, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found a...
Rite Aid has added four days this month when educators, school employees and childcare workers will be given priority to book coronavirus vaccine appointments. Rite Aid offered COVID-19 vaccine appointments only to teachers, school staff and child care workers for two days last week in seven states, including New Jersey,...
Ontario residents who are 75 or older can start booking their COVID-19 vaccines through the government's online system starting today. People in that age group were initially set to become eligible by the first week of April, but the province announced last week it was moving up the date, saying vaccinations are...
Winn-Dixie began administering COVID-19 vaccinations at stores all across Florida on Thursday. According to Southern Grocers, Inc. the company that owns Winn-Dixie, the grocery chain was expected to receive 8,100 doses of the Moderna vaccine through the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. According to the governor’s office, this includes stores in five...
Target Corp. is making about a third of its stores COVID-19 vaccination destinations through its partnership with CVS Pharmacy. Target said Wednesday that more than 600 of its 1,700-plus stores with CVS Pharmacy departments have begun administering coronavirus shots in 17 states. Eligible customers and employees can schedule appointments at CVS.com to...