Coronavirus Archives

Vaccine questions answered

January 20, 2021 9:34 AM Dominique Newland, NBC News

(KYMA, KECY/NBC News) – As the Covid-19 vaccine slowly rolls out, there are still questions about them. Like, how effective is a vaccination? How…

Mask-Wearing Linked to Reduced Regional COVID-19 Transmissions

January 20, 2021 9:24 AM Dominique Newland, NBC News

(KYMA, KECY/NBC News) – A new modeling study from Boston’s Children’s Hospital that used U.S. data found that just a 10% increase in mask-wearing was…

Child COVID-19 cases continue to sky rocket

January 20, 2021 9:10 AM Dominique Newland, NBC News

(KYMA, KECY/NBC News) – A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association shows more than 2.5 million…

Biden’s first executive order will require masks on federal property

January 20, 2021 6:50 AM CNN Newsource

President-elect Joe Biden, who plans to make the coronavirus pandemic his top priority, will begin his presidency by asking Americans to wear masks…

85-year-old Yuma woman travels to Glendale for a COVID-19 vaccine

January 20, 2021 6:08 AM Sumiko Keil

Local woman who struggled to find an appointment in Yuma, travels 400 miles to get her COVID-19…

California pins vaccine hopes on Biden administration

January 20, 2021 5:20 AM The Associated Press

Doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been arriving haphazardly as they make their way from the federal government through the state and finally to…

Officials call for more vaccine doses as the US death toll passes 400,000

January 20, 2021 2:03 AM CNN Newsource

A funeral bell tolled at the Washington National Cathedral 400 times Tuesday, once for every thousand Americans who have died of Covid-19 in the…

Officials call for more vaccine doses as the US death toll exceeds 400,000

January 20, 2021 1:32 AM CNN Newsource

A funeral bell tolled at the Washington National Cathedral 400 times Tuesday, once for every thousand Americans who have died of the Covid-19…

Preemies may have greater risk of premature death as adults, study suggests

January 20, 2021 1:12 AM CNN Newsource

One in 10 babies around the world is born prematurely, and the vastly improved survival rates of preemies is one of the most striking advances of…

US surpasses 400,000 deaths from Covid-19

January 20, 2021 12:39 AM CNN Newsource, Jenny Day

The United States has reported at least 400,000 deaths from Covid-19 since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University…

Joe Biden grieves Covid victims on eve of his inauguration: ‘To heal, we must remember’

January 19, 2021 5:04 PM CNN, Jenny Day

One of the great tragedies of the past year, as some 400,000 Americans lost their lives to Covid-19, was not only that many victims died alone…

Fast-filling vaccine appointments spark frustration in Yuma County

January 19, 2021 5:39 PM April Hettinger

The appointments filled up quickly leaving some frustrated with the process, and without an appointment as covid cases remain steady in our…

Farmworkers trying to get COVID-19 vaccine face challenges

January 19, 2021 2:53 PM Gianella Ghiglino

Qualifying for the vaccine was the first challenge, now access to the vaccine is another.…

Brazilian officials were warned six days in advance of a looming oxygen crisis in Manaus

January 19, 2021 4:49 PM CNN

Local and federal officials in Brazil were warned of looming oxygen shortages nearly a week before crisis struck in the city of Manaus, the…

Trump administration leaves Biden with ‘confusing’ Covid-19 vaccine numbers and states in limbo

January 19, 2021 3:39 PM CNN Newsource

States across the country say they’re running low on coronavirus vaccine supply, with many officials insisting the vaccine delivery numbers…

It’s chaos as older people struggle to get a Covid-19 vaccine. Here is what you can do

January 19, 2021 2:43 PM CNN Newsource

Nancy Wilkinson knows her way around the internet. Retired from a career in IT support, the 66-year-old was unfazed by the hurdles her Decatur,…

The Georgia teen who went to jail in Cayman Islands for breaking quarantine admits mistake

January 19, 2021 1:13 PM CNN

After spending more than a month in a Cayman Islands jail, a Georgia teen admits she was wrong for breaking Covid-19 quarantine…

UPDATE: California pauses giving out shots from one lot of coronavirus vaccine

January 19, 2021 11:48 AM CNN Newsource

Health officials in California are telling medical providers across the state not to administer doses from one lot of Moderna’s coronavirus…

IRS warns taxpayers of COVID-19 scams on the rise

January 19, 2021 11:42 AM Sumiko Keil, Mercedes Martinez

The IRS warns taxpayers of the new wave of COVID-19 scams as the second round of Economic Impact Payments are…

More variant cases of Coronavirus found in the U.S.

January 19, 2021 11:39 AM Dominique Newland

(KYMA, KECY/CNN) – The push to get more people vaccinated is getting stronger as a vaccine variant is starting to spread in the U.S. John Lorinc…