Berlin’s Vivantes Humboldt Hospital is no longer admitting patients after several infections with the new, more infectious British coronavirus variant were discovered there. Routine screenings in the ward for internal medicine and cardiology have revealed positive test results in 14 people so far, the hospital confirmed on Saturday. The new strain of the coronavirus that emerged in Britain is more transmissible and potentially also more deadly than the previously prevalent one, according to experts. The admissions ban imposed since midnight is in effect until further notice. Emergency cases are being taken to other hospitals. Hospital staff are under so-called shuttle quarantine, meaning they are only allowed to travel between their homes and the hospital. Vaccines update Severe reaction to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is “rare,” US health authorities have found, with only 10 cases of anaphylactic shock among a reported 4,041,396 first doses administered between December 21 and January 10. Based on this early monitoring, anaphylaxis after receipt of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine appears to be a rare event,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a report. The numbers represent 2.5 cases of anaphylactic shock per one million Moderna injections, compared with 11.1 cases per one million BioNTech-Pfizer injections,… Read full this story
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