PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Public health officials sounded the alarm for months, complaining that they did not have enough support or money to get COVID-19 vaccines quickly into arms. Now the slower-than-expected start to the largest vaccination effort in U.S. history is proving them right. As they work to ramp up the shots, state and […]

JERUSALEM (JNS/Israel Hayom) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein received the second dose of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine on Saturday night. “I’m sure all the Israeli citizens about to receive the second dose of the vaccine are as emotional as I am,” said Netanyahu. “Through Israel’s vaccination campaign, we will be […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — For Agnes Keleti, the oldest living Olympic champion, the fondest memory of her remarkable 100 years is simply that she has lived through it all. The Holocaust survivor and winner of 10 Olympic medals in gymnastics — including five golds — celebrates her 100th birthday on Saturday in her native Budapest, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli police have been extremely diligent in closing and dispersing illegal gatherings including weddings with more than 20 people present. In most cases, the organizers of the gathering received a stiff fine from police. However at a large wedding for the grandson of the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak rebbe which took place in […]

CALIFORNIA (AP) — The U.S. registered more COVID-19 deaths in a single day than ever before — nearly 3,900 — on the very day the mob attack on the Capitol laid bare some of the same, deep political divisions that have hampered the battle against the pandemic. The virus is surging in virtually every state, […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A skier who was on a chairlift at the the Bristol Mountain Ski Resort in Canandaigua somehow fell off her seat and was left dangling by her coat for two minutes before falling 30 feet into a tarpaulin below. The skier had initially tried to jump into the tarp but was […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California hospitals struggling with a skyrocketing coronavirus surge are trying to prepare for the possibility that they may have to ration care for lack of staff and beds — and hoping they don’t have to make that choice. The state avoided surging cases for months, but now the virus is raging […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s governor threatened to fine hospitals if they don’t use their allotment of COVID-19 vaccine fast enough. His South Carolina counterpart warned health care workers they have until Jan. 15 to get a shot or move to the back of the line. California’s governor wants to use dentists to vaccinate […]

AUSTRIA (JTA) – The head of Austria’s Jewish community has apologized for COVID-19 vaccine doses that were administered to community members, including himself, who were not meant to receive them. In a letter to the community released Monday, Oskar Deutsch said it was a “mistake” to have included nonpriority individuals in the vaccinations administered on […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A TikTok video in which a California nurse pleads in tears for people to “stop being careless” has gone viral, racking up more than 1.9 million views. The video by Gayana Chuklansev, a surgical intensive care nurse, shows her wearing her blue nurse’s uniform with Christmas lights twinkling behind her. After […]