LAS VEGAS — Health officials said Tuesday that eight Las Vegas-area children under age 14 who tested positive for COVID-19 since March were also diagnosed with a rare inflammatory condition linked with the coronavirus. The Southern Nevada Health District said all the children were hospitalized and released, and the district has begun adding daily tallies […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Late-stage studies of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate are on temporary hold while the company investigates if a report of a patient with a serious side effect is linked to the shot. In a statement issued Tuesday evening, the company said its “standard review process triggered a pause to vaccination to allow […]

NEW YORK (AP) — In the early days of the pandemic, doctors noticed something about the people severely ill from COVID-19: Many were obese. The link became more apparent as coronavirus swept across the globe and data mounted, and researchers are still trying to figure out why. Excess weight increases the chances of developing a […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Top executives of nine drugmakers likely to produce the first vaccines against the new coronavirus are promising they’ll be safe and effective. The drugmakers’ chief executives say they’ll maintain the highest ethical and scientific standards in testing and manufacturing their vaccines. They also say they’ll make the well-being of those getting […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Twelve students at a religious seminary for women in Israel have tested positive for the coronavirus, in an outbreak that strikes at fears that the country’s residential learning programs could be a tinderbox for the disease. Some 125 of 200 students in the Israeli program at Midreshet Lindenbaum in Jerusalem have gone […]

KFAR HARO’EH (VINnews) — There are very few people still alive who can be said to have had a crucial role in Israel’s war of independence. There are probably very few people who can claim to have blown the shofar for 82 years running. There is certainly only one person who can claim to have […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite having successfully negotiated the early months of COVID-19 with a minimal number of infections and casualties, Israel is now in a far grimmer situation, leading the world with its infection rate. Even though the country enforced  strict guidelines over the past few months, including mandatory masks, social distancing rules and isolating […]

NOF AYALON (VINnews) — In a record-breaking heat wave which has seen the hottest temperatures on record in Jerusalem (42.8 degrees- 109 degrees fahrenheit) and Eilat (49 degrees- 120 degrees fahrenheit), a number of communities  near Modi’in went without electricity for an entire Shabbos -and the Israeli Electric Company (IEC) claims that it did not […]

LONDON (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said the U.N. health agency will not recommend any COVID-19 vaccine before it is proved safe and effective, even as Russia and China have started using their experimental vaccines before large studies have finished and other countries have proposed streamlining authorization procedures. At a press […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israel’s coronavirus infection rate spiraled out of control, with an unprecedented 3,000 new infections announced Thursday, the coronavirus cabinet (an inner cabinet of ministers dealing specifically with the issue of COVID-19) met to discuss further steps needed to combat the spread of the virus. Defense minister Benny Gantz said that we […]