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Fauci: US taking hard look at variant of coronavirus
AP - December 28, 2020
U.S. health officials believe the coronavirus mutation that set off alarms in parts of Britain is no more apt to cause serious illness or be resistant to vaccines than the strain afflicting people in the United States but it still must be taken “very seriously,” the government’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday. Dr. Anthony Fauci endorsed the decision of U.S. officials to require negative COVID-19 tests before letting people from Britain enter the U.S.
Surging virus, plummeting temperatures challenge shelters
AP - December 28, 2020
The pandemic has caught homeless service providers in a crosscurrent: demand is high but their ability to provide services is constricted. Shelter operators who already cut capacity to meet social distance requirements face new stresses with winter looming. Coming in from the cold can now mean spending a night in a warehouse, an old Greyhound bus station, schools or an old jail.
Food banks sound alarm on child hunger as Covid crisis drags on
NBC News - December 28, 2020
More than 50 million people living in America, including 17 million children, are likely to experience food insecurity by the end of the year, according to Feeding America, the country's largest anti-hunger organization. That amounts to 1 in 6 Americans and 1 in 4 children — an increase of nearly 50 percent over last year.
The CDC issued new guidance about the COVID-19 vaccine for people with underlying medical conditions
Business Insider - December 28, 2020
The CDC said that people with underlying medical conditions are at an increased risk of "severe illness" from the coronavirus and can get the COVID-19 vaccine as long as they "have not had a severe allergic reaction to any of the ingredients in the vaccine." … The CDC warned that information for the safety of the vaccine for those with HIV and weakened immune systems isn't available yet and while people living with HIV were included in clinical trials of the vaccine, data for that group isn't available either.