The number of hospitalized Covid-19 patients in England has risen sharply in the last three weeks and now dwarfs the spring peak by 70 percent.
The public health threat of the new coronavirus variant has stilled the British prime minister’s critics and offered a chance to redeem past failures.
The public health threat of the new coronavirus variant has stilled the British prime minister’s critics and offered a chance to redeem past failures.
Facing record case and hospital numbers and a threatening variant strain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under pressure to shut schools and reimpose national restrictions, measures he once decried.
Within days, all three countries could be giving the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but they have varying strategies and challenges. The U.S. plan, working through the states, is the least centralized.
Britain left hospitals short of masks and gowns, and stumbled on testing and tracing, so can it vaccinate tens of millions of people in a matter of months? Experts think it can.
With the vaccine rollout and a potential Brexit deal looming, his government has a chance to wash away its reputation for chaos and mismanagement.
Scientists bemoaned a debate over which country has a better regulatory system, saying it could undermine the public’s faith in coronavirus vaccines.
Cuando los primeros resultados de las pruebas finales comenzaron a llegar, los científicos estaban bien preparados. Ahora, se enfrentan al reto logístico de poner la vacuna a trabajar.
When early results from the final trials began to roll in, scientists were well prepared. Now, they face the logistical challenge of putting the vaccine to work.
When early results from the final trials began to roll in, scientists were well prepared. Now, they face the logistical challenge of putting the vaccine to work.
Emergency approval of the vaccine, ahead of the United States and the European Union, clears the way for Britain to begin mass inoculations.