WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Friday unveiled a plan to get yet-to-be-approved coronavirus vaccines to nursing home residents free of charge, enlisting two national pharmacy chains to help. Such a vaccine is not yet available, and that led to skepticism from some long-term care experts. The distribution program is contingent on the Food […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Pfizer Inc. cannot request emergency authorization of its COVID-19 vaccine before the third week of November — and that’s if everything goes well, the company’s CEO announced Friday. Despite President Donald Trump’s repeated promises of a vaccine before Election Day, scientists have been cautioning that it’s unlikely data showing a leading […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pregnant women should avoid a group of common pain relievers including Advil and Aleve for the last four months of pregnancy, federal health officials said Thursday, expanding the warning from three months. The Food and Drug Administration said the fever-and-pain-reducing drugs can cause a rare but serious complication that can harm the […]

NEW YORK (JNS/Daniel Greenfield) The problem isn’t just the “China Virus.” It’s that we adopted the China Model to fight it. Public health experts adopted China’s draconian lockdowns without knowing how well they really worked and in a country that, fortunately, lacks the power to truly enforce them. China’s deceptiveness and lack of transparency meant […]

LONDON (JTA) – Former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks announced he has been diagnosed with cancer and is undergoing treatment. In a statement posted to his Twitter feed Thursday afternoon, Sacks’ office said he had been “recently diagnosed” with an unspecified cancer and hoped to return to work “as soon as possible.” “He remains positive […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened Thursday’s coronavirus Cabinet meeting by lauding what he called the “major success” of the nationwide lockdown, according to a statement released by his office. “We are seeing a decline in all data, a clear and consistent decline,” he said, at the start of the meeting convened […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel decided on Thursday to relax some of the restrictions imposed during a monthlong nationwide lockdown that was meant to drive down a raging coronavirus outbreak. The country’s coronavirus Cabinet voted to resume daycare and pre-school for children up to six years old, allow some businesses — those without walk-in […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Rockland County Executive Ed Day and County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert announce a new Commissioner’s Standing Order related to COVID-19. This order requires that all educational institutions, childcare programs and school transportation companies are responsible to require and ensure that all children and students over age two cover their […]

GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — Rabbi Uri Pollack, the father of the bride at the private wedding disrupted by police Wednesday night, is a well-known Talmid Chacham who studied previously at the Ohr Hachaim yeshiva. He is also from a terror-stricken family: In 1983 two of his sisters, Nurit and Esther were murdered in a Jerusalem […]

GIVAT ZEEV (VINnews) — The wedding in Givat Zeev north of Jerusalem which was violently broken up earlier Wednesday evening could serve as a watershed event in relations between the Chareidi public and police. If until now there were some who vindicated police roughness against Chareidim due to continuous flagrant violations by members of the […]