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  The meeting, announced on Friday by a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on immunizations, suggests that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be close to authorizing distribution of the long-awaited medication, at least to those considered most vulnerable. US health authorities will hold an emergency meeting next week to recommend that a coronavirus vaccine awaiting approval be given first to healthcare professionals and people in long-term care facilities. The meeting, announced on Friday by a US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on immunizations, suggests that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be close to authorizing distribution of the long-awaited medication, at least to those considered most vulnerable. United Airlines has begun moving shipments of the vaccine, developed by Pfizer Inc, on charter flights to ensure it can be quickly distributed once it is approved, according to a person familiar with the matte...

  WHO says difficult storing conditions for some candidate coronavirus vaccines and the associated high costs should not discourage countries from adopting them Director for Immunisation, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organisation (WHO), Kate O’Brien on November 27 said that the troublesome storing conditions for some candidate COVID vaccines and the associated high costs should not discourage countries from adopting them as immunisation methods. While speaking at a virtual briefing, O’Brien suggested countries choose to use the “ultra-cold chain” vaccines for only certain portions of the population that need to be vaccinated. She also said that such vaccines could be used to inoculate health care workers at facilities where installing a freezer with ultra-low temperatures would not be an issue.  O’Brien said, “Every country is going to have to work very hard and is going to have to innovate around systems to actually deliver vaccines that do have an ultra-cold ...

  Coronavirus News LIVE Updates: Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Ahmedabad around 9 am as part of his three-city tour to review coronavirus vaccine development work at facilities there. From the airport, Modi proceeded to pharma major Zydus Cadila's plant near Ahmedabad to get information about its vaccine development, an official said. The plant is located in the Changodar industrial area, over 20 km from Ahmedabad. Zydus Cadila has announced that the phase-I clinical trial of its vaccine candidate ZyCoV-D was over and it has commenced phase-II clinical trials from August. From Ahmedabad, Modi will fly to Hyderabad where he is scheduled to visit vaccine maker Bharat Biotech's facility. After landing at Hakimpet Air Force station, Modi will reach Bharat Biotech's facility at Genome Valley at 1.30 pm. The facility is around 50 km from Hyderabad. Bharat Biotech's Covaxin is undergoing phase-3 trials. After his hour-long visit to the facility, the PM will proceed to...

 KNOW THE VALUE OF SLEEP The topic of this chapter is a little unusual, but it’s probably the most important. Many people are negligent about getting enough sleep because they don’t truly understand the benefits they’re getting from it.  So what is sleep? And why is it important?  Well, defining sleep is a lot like trying to define life. No one completely understands it, and if you try to explain it you’re more likely to sound like Forrest Gump than a world-renown scholar (Life is like a box of chocolates… sleep is like pretending to be dead).  Sleep is actually defined as a natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body, in which the eyes usually close and consciousness is completely or partially lost, so that there is a decrease in bodily movement and responsiveness to external stimuli.  That sounds a little weird, but the most important takeaway is that it’s a natural periodic state of rest for the mind and body. If you’re not doing it, then you’re bein...