Two new US studies identify risk factors for COVID-19 death, one pointing to the use of certain medications and the other describing development of a risk calculator that showed elevated risk in non-white populations and in people with underlying conditions and social deprivation.Hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin comboThe first study, published yesterday in JAMA Network Open, found that use of a combination of the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin was linked to increased risk of death in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, while cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, vitamin C or D, and the cardiovascular drugs angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and calcium channel blockers appeared protective.A

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Nicola Adams makes epic return to Strictly Come Dancing alongside Katya Jones after axe

Nicola Adams and Katya Jones made an epic return to Strictly Come Dancing after the pair were axed from the show due to Covid-19. The 38-year-old Olympian was forced to leave the BBC competition after her professional partner Katya tested positive for coronavirus.Returning to the dance floor, Nicola and Katya performed a sensational routine as they made an epic comeback.Host Claudia Winkleman said: "That was unbelievable, thank you so much, Nicola and Katya."Viewers adored seeing the duo back on the show, as one wrote: "Having Nicola and Katya back for one final dance is a good good good move.

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CDC advisors recommend Moderna COVID vaccination

An independent vaccine advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today, in an emergency session, recommended that Americans ages 18 and older receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine under emergency use.

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No. 3 Ohio St. runs past No. 15 Wildcats for Big Ten crown

INDIANAPOLIS – Trey Sermon ran for a school-record 331 yards and two second-half touchdowns Saturday, helping No. 3 Ohio State rally for a 22-10 victory over Northwestern for a fourth consecutive Big Ten championship.The Buckeyes (6-0) will find out Sunday if they've done enough to earn one of four spots in the College Football Playoff.

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CRA admits ‘unclear’ communication on CERB eligibility led to some mistaken applications

Canada Revenue Agency has acknowledged “unclear communication” on who was eligible for the Canadian Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic led to Canadians mistakenly applying for package despite being ineligible.The government collection service said this included confusing information both on the benefit’s web pages, and admitted unclear information was given to call centre agents.

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Study probing whether and how TransLink can rebound from COVID-19 ridership woes

want to hear from the public about what it will take to get them back on transit.Around this time last year, the transit agency was smashing ridership records.TransLink recorded more than 41 million boardings in October 2019. That’s all changed under the COVID-19 pandemic — in September, it recorded just 16.5 million boardings.

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Saskatchewan reports 8 more deaths due to COVID-19, 252 new cases

Saskatchewan govenrment reported eight more deaths on Saturday, bringing the total amount of COVID-19-related deaths to 115.The province also announced 252 news cases in its daily COVID-19 update, bringing the total cases in Saskatchewan to 13,329 — 3,762 are considered active.

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Coronavirus: Exhausted but determined – hospital staff cope with second wave

As the second COVID-19 wave sweeps through, Jeff Semple returns to Toronto’s Humber River Hospital, where advances in care are increasing the odds of survival, and frontline healthcare workers are being pushed to the breaking point.

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Russian cyber attack could cripple NHS amid fears sleeper bug planted 9 months ago

Health chiefs have ordered urgent action to thwart a suspected Russian cyber attack that could further cripple the NHS.

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Army general apologizes for "miscommunication" over COVID-19 vaccine shipments

General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department's Project Warp Speed.(Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States apologized on Saturday for "miscommunication" with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution."I failed. I’m adjusting.

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Cayman Islands jails Georgia college student in coronavirus case

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued.

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Prince William, Kate and kids went to country home before Tier 4 lockdown announced

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge left London with their three children before the Tier 4 restrictions were announced.

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Dr. Fauci Says He Has Personally Vaccinated Santa Claus At The North Pole

Dr. Fauci has saved Christmas.

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Naomi Watts bundles up in a corduroy jacket as she goes shopping with her son Kai

Naomi Watts was spotted out in Santa Monica on Saturday as she tried to wrap up her holiday shopping with a friend and her 12-year-old son.The 52-year-old Oscar nominee and her companions were weighed down with shopping bags as they headed home after a successful outing.The Mulholland Drive star dressed up her casual ensemble with a stylish tan corduroy jacket with the sleeves partially rolled up.

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Supermarket buys nearly $200,000 in restaurant gift cards, hands them out to employees

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Coronavirus: Latest developments in the Greater Toronto Area on Dec. 19

coronavirus pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area for Saturday:Toronto Mayor John Tory says he is still unsure as to what the provincial government could announce for the city on Monday.Tory said he hopes the province will take advantage of the holiday season while many people are off work and impose stronger measures in a bid to slow the spread of COVID-19.“I don’t know exactly what’s coming on Monday, but I just know that it’s something that is the right thing to do,” Tory said.“I will be supportive of Premier Ford in that respect because these are terribly difficult decisions and I just know we’re all trying to do it for the right reasons.”Premier Doug Ford said that discussions will take place over the weekend and an announcement will be

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Regina police chief attributes decline in property crime to coronavirus pandemic

Regina’s Police Chief Evan Bray led the board of police commissioners through the year-to-date crime stats on Tuesday and it seems the coronavirus pandemic could be the driving force behind declining property crime rates.He said more people out of work or working from home could explain the 20 per cent year-to-date decrease in residential break-and-enters.

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The latest coronavirus infection rates for all ten Greater Manchester boroughs as cases begin to rise again

Don't miss a thing that's happening in and around Bury by signing up to the free MyBury newsletterThe coronavirus infection rate has gone up in Greater Manchester for the first time in weeks.It currently sits at 161.4 per 100,000 people during the week ending December 15 - that's a 6.3 per cent increase on the previous week.It is the first week-on-week increase in Greater Manchester of more than 1 percent since October 31.The infection rate has remained fairly level across the region for the last week.And despite the worrying change, rates here are nowhere near as high as in London - where the infection rate has more than doubled in a week.London currently has an infection rate of 463 per 100,000 people as of December 15 and is up 105 per

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Everything said about the new Covid strain - which could be 70pc more infectious

direct to your inboxThe new strain of coronavirus sweeping across London and the South East is up to 70pc more transmissible than other variants, Boris Johnson has warned.And the Government’s chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance said it was fast becoming the dominant strain of infection.“It’s also got variants in areas of the virus that are known to be associated with how the virus binds to cells and enters cells,” Sir Patrick told the Downing Street press conference on Saturday.“So there are some changes which cause concern in terms of how the virus looks.”Sir Patrick said current evidence showed the variant “has a significant, substantial increase in transmissibility”.In the middle of November, about 28% of the cases in London

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Pink Reveals She Fractured Her Ankle, Says She's Had Enough Of 'This Poop Sandwich Of A Year'

Enough, already, 2020!

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Florida reports 11,450 new COVID-19 cases as US rolls out second vaccine

ORLANDO, Fla. – The U.S. officially has a new weapon in its arsenal to use in the fight against COVID-19: a second vaccine.The Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use Friday of the vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health.

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Mossimo Giannulli placed in COVID-19-related protective custody

college admissions scandal. Sources at People report the 57-year-old designer has been separated from other inmates as a precaution amid a coronavirus outbreak within the prison, as hundreds of cases have been confirmed at the facility.While sources claim the move was not a punishment, Giannulli’s son Gianni said on Instagram that his father “has been locked in solitary confinement for one full month” and has been “only let out every 3 days for a few moments to shower,” according to a screenshot captured by ABC News.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gets COVID-19 vaccine

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with Israel's health minister regarding preparations and new regulations for the coronavirus, at the Health Ministry in Jerusalem on March 4, 2020. (Photo by GALI TIBBON/AFP via TEL AVIV, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world’s leaders to be inoculated.Israel is set to begin vaccinating its health workers and nursing home residents beginning Sunday.

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Trump contradicts Pompeo, downplays U.S. cyberattack

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., Oct. 1, 2020.

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‘Hamilton’ Star Leslie Odom Jr. Reveals Results Of COVID-19 After ‘Ellen’ Appearance

Leslie Odom Jr. is sharing the results of his COVID-19 test after being forced to isolate apart from his family, and it’s all because of an appearance on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” the day before the show’s host revealed she’d tested positive for the coronavirus.

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Woman's body rolled up in mattress and left to rot after heroin overdose at party

drug overdose. Tragic Cecilia Seddon died after taking a "snowball" of heroin and cocaine at a bash at the flat of Blaze Fisher, 25, and Clayton Hawkes, 52, in Penzance, Cornwall.The drug dealers then hid the 32-year-old inside an "improvised" body bag before stashing her remains under a bed.When she was finally discovered Ms Seddon's body was too decomposed to determine the cause of death.

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Israeli PM joins world leaders getting COVID-19 vaccine

TEL AVIV – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world's leaders to be inoculated.Israel is set to begin vaccinating its health workers and nursing home residents beginning Sunday. Netanyahu said he wanted to be the country's first recipient to set a personal example and to encourage Israelis to get the shot.

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Victoria Beckham reportedly had toxic levels of mercury from fish diet

Victoria Beckham.According to The Sun, the former Spice Girl was warned last year that she had a dangerously high level of toxic mercury in her system and was effectively poisoning herself, a result of her heavy fish diet.A source told the UK-based outlet that Victoria, 46, went to a health spa in Germany and medics found "off the scale levels of mercury."Victoria's diet still primarily consists of fish, but she's made changes.

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Craig Revel-Horwood vows to be more positive on Strictly after Tier 4 Covid news

It seems Craig Revel-Horwood has had a change of heart.

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Coronavirus: 87 new cases and 4 deaths in the MLHU; 20 cases and 1 death in Sarnia Lambton

coronavirus case record on Saturday after the Middlesex-London Health Unit reported 87 new cases — 20 more than the previous record set just a day earlier.The MLHU also reported four new deaths, bringing the death total to 86. Twenty-one of them have occurred just this month.The MLHU confirmed two of the deaths are associated with the UH outbreak, one is associated with long-term care, and there’s no association for the fourth.The region’s total case tally stands at 2,409, of which 1,898 people have recovered, 23 more than the day before.One death Saturday is linked to the outbreak at Victoria Hospital — the first to be linked to outbreaks declared at the facility earlier this week.

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Coronavirus: Syilx woman has made more than 3K masks to keep her community safe

Your guide to COVAX, the WHO’s coronavirus global vaccine plan “I was wondering, now what do I do? They said ‘make masks.’ So I did,” said Alexis, who’s a member of the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB), near Vernon, B.C.“I gave away a good 500 across Canada, and I was doing that out of my own pocket. I said ‘whoever wants it, I’ll make them.

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Public trust hinges on government’s transparency on coronavirus vaccine, doctors say

coronavirus vaccine – and that public trust hinges on how they go about it.“You can have the best vaccine on the planet, but if nobody wants it, it’s useless. So at the end of the day, you need to get people to see the benefit,” said Dr.

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Nine more COVID-19 deaths in Manitoba, outbreak prompts hospital ER to close

COVID-19 have been reported Saturday.Those deaths are:The current five-day COVID-19 test positivity rate is 13.2 per cent provincially and 12 per cent in Winnipeg.As of 9:30 a.m. Saturday, 238 new cases of the virus have been identified, which brings the total number of lab-confirmed cases in Manitoba to 22,630.

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Nova Scotia reports 2 new COVID-19 cases, new potential exposure locations

coronavirus on Saturday, bringing the number of total active cases in the province to 46.One of the new cases is in the western zone while the other is in the eastern zone. The province says both cases are related to travel outside of Atlantic Canada and are self-isolating.The case in the eastern zone was an individual from Eskasoni First Nation.“Public health continues to work closely with Chief (Leroy) Denny to manage the case.

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Plane passenger 'sweating and shaking with Covid symptoms' dies during emergency landing

MailOnline, one passenger claimed the victim's wife said he had been showing symptoms the past week – and that she suspected it was coronavirus. Following the emergency landing, the other passengers had to stay on the same flight to LA – and say they weren't offered another option.The Centers for Disease, Control, and Prevention (CDC) is now rushing to track down all 179 passengers of the flight.Passengers said the man was presenting coronavirus symptoms and was allowed to board the flight.One said: "Can I ask how you guys let a Covid positive man on my flight last night?"He was shaking and sweating boarding the plane.

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Progress continues on almost $1 trillion COVID-19 relief package

Capitol Building, seat of United States Congress, 1827, Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States of America, 19th century. WASHINGTON - Negotiators reported continued progress on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package on Saturday, with optimism rising that the overdue talks would soon produce an agreement.

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Leah Remini doubts authenticity of Tom Cruise's rant

Tom Cruise's viral tirade on the set of "Mission: Impossible 7" isn't what it seems."Tom does not care about the families of his crew; this is all for publicity," she wrote in a piece for anti-Scientology site The Underground Bunker.There is no love lost between Leah and Tom, as she's been critical of him and the Church of Scientology ever since she defected from the religion. She adds that Scientologists don't think COVID-19 is real, and say the fact that people believe Tom's rant is authentic is "just mindblowing.""I would bet that Tom had this rant written for him and had his Scientology assistant record and release it," she wrote.On Dec.

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Mossimo Giannulli Is Apparently In 'Solitary Confinement' While Serving His Prison Sentence

Well, it sounds like things aren’t going quite as planned for Mossimo Giannulli as he continues to serve out his federal prison sentence in the aftermath of the college admissions scandal…

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Passenger Dies During Cross-Country Flight After Showing 'COVID-Related' Symptoms On Board

A United Airlines plane was forced to divert mid-flight earlier this week during a trip from Orlando to Los Angeles when a male passenger on board became seriously ill.

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General sorry for ‘miscommunication’ over vaccine shipments

states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution."I failed. I'm adjusting.

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Brace Yourself, Zac Efron Has a Mullet Now

Zac Efron is currently living his best summer life in Australia, where the coronavirus pandemic numbers are among the lowest in the world (the entire country had just 13 new cases added yesterday). Things are so normal there that the actor went and got his hair cut at Kent Town's Attaboy salon, and it almost looked like pre-pandemic times.

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Dr. Fauci Says He Vaccinated Santa Claus During a Trip to the North Pole

Dr. Anthony Fauci is making sure that kids feel safe on Christmas Day and he’s assuring them that it’s perfectly fine for Santa Claus to visit their homes.

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Covid wedding rules and tier restrictions, explained

three-tier system replaced the second national lockdown.Whilst brides and grooms were prohibited from holding weddings during lockdown, the 'Covid winter plan' allowed nuptials, civil partnerships and wedding receptions to go ahead with up to 15 guests, whether in Tier 1, 2, or 3.

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UK poised for 'Tier 4' lockdown as new coronavirus strain linked to surge in cases emerges

A woman wearing a face mask walks past John Lewis on Oxford Street in London, United Kingdom, on Dec. 18, 2020.

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Woman arrested after police find dead animals inside home

Credit: Hamden Police Department HAMDEN, Conn. - A Connecticut woman has been arrested after authorities found three dead animals in her home and seized more than two dozen cats along with dogs, squirrels and an owl, police said Wednesday.Hamden police said Donna Scirocco turned herself in Tuesday because of an arrest warrant charging her with six counts of animal cruelty. She posted a $5,000 bond and was ordered to appear in court Feb.

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Italy braces for Christmas lockdown as Europe battles virus surge

- Worst-hit nation -The United States on Friday authorised Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, paving the way for millions of doses of a second jab to be shipped across the hardest-hit country in the world.The United States is the first nation to authorise the two-dose regimen from Moderna, now the second vaccine to be deployed in a Western country after the one developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.Millions of doses will start shipping out as early as this weekend from cold-storage sites outside Memphis and Louisville.With the United States now registering more than 2,500 deaths a day from Covid-19, senior US officials including Vice President Mike Pence stepped up to receive early vaccinations on Friday.Pence's public inoculation was

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Ottawa ICUs COVID-19 free for first time since September

OTTAWA -- Ottawa Public Health says there are currently no patients in Ottawa ICUs with COVID-19 complications.

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New Brunswick reports 5 new COVID-19 cases Saturday

coronavirus Saturday, bringing the total number of active cases in the province to 49.The new cases include one individual in the Moncton region, two in the Saint John region, one in Bathurst and one in Edmundston. The province says these cases are under investigation.To date, New Brunswick has confirmed 578 positive cases of COVID-19 and 520 individuals have recovered.

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India	Cases: 34 321 025 Deaths: 459 652 Recovered: 0
Brazil	Cases: 21 835 785 Deaths: 608 235 Recovered: 0
United Kingdom	Cases: 9 215 683 Deaths: 141 607 Recovered: 0
Russia	Cases: 8 494 589 Deaths: 237 619 Recovered: 0

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