WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism rippling across the land. In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, federal health agencies and the Defense Department […]

NEW YORK (AP) – A drug company says that partial results from a study testing an antibody drug give hints that it may help mild to moderately ill COVID-19 patients from needing to be hospitalized, a goal no current coronavirus medicine has been able to meet. Eli Lilly announced the results Wednesday in a press […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — At least seven people have died in connection to a coronavirus outbreak that continues to sicken people in Maine following a wedding reception held over the summer that violated state virus guidelines, public health authorities said. The August wedding reception at the Big Moose Inn in Millinocket is linked to more […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – At least 13 students at a yeshiva in Queens, New York, tested positive for COVID-19 just weeks into the new school year and days before Rosh Hashanah. Yeshiva Darchei Torah will transition to distance learning temporarily while the Health Department conducts an investigation, according to Politico. The cases come on the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli interior minister Arye Deri sent a letter to Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky imploring him to allow Chasidim stranded at the Ukrainian border with Belarus to enter the country for the duration of Rosh Hashana.

NEW YORK (AP) – A drug company says that adding an anti-inflammatory medicine to a drug already widely used for hospitalized COVID-19 patients shortens their time to recovery by an additional day. Eli Lilly announced the results Monday from a 1,000-person study sponsored by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The result […]

KETURA, Israel — When researchers excavated the Masasa fortress in the 1960’s, they found in an underground cistern among other significant archaeological finds some remarkably preserved date pits. The date pits were placed in an archive for some 40 years and almost forgotten -until a fascinating experiment succeeded in rejuvenating them and producing what are […]

LONDON (AP) — British scientists are beginning a small study comparing how two experimental coronavirus vaccines might work when they are inhaled by people instead of being injected. In a statement on Monday, researchers at Imperial College London and Oxford University said a trial involving 30 people would test vaccines developed by both institutions when […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The first U.S. flight into Antarctica following months of winter darkness left from New Zealand on Monday with crews taking extra precautions to keep out the coronavirus. Antarctica is the only continent without the virus, and there is a global effort to make sure incoming scientists and workers don’t bring […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea has reported its lowest daily virus tally in about a month as it began easing its tough social distancing rules in the greater Seoul area. The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency says the 109 new cases added in the past 24 hours took the country’s total to […]