Spoilers follow for "Breaking the Fourth Wall", the seventh episode of WandaVision.After a visually stunning trip through the last seven decades of American television, the overarching plot of Marvel Studios' superhero sitcom WandaVision is finally starting to come together, with the revelation that nosy neighbor Agnes is in fact a witch named Agatha Harkness. Of…
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain More than 200 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in at least 107 countries and territories, according to an AFP count based on official sources Saturday. In total 201,042,149 doses had been given worldwide by 1000 GMT—a figure that does not include the latest data from China and Russia, who…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A lockdown and stay at home order is being extended in Canada's largest city until at least March 8. Ontario Health Minister Christine Elliott said Friday it was a difficult but necessary decision. Dr. Eileen de Villa, Toronto's medical officer of health, asked the provincial government this week to extend the…
Coronavirus. Credit: European Centers for Disease Control Moscow announced Saturday it had registered its third vaccine against the coronavirus and promised to introduce the jab to the Russian population by March. Russia was the first country to register a vaccine against COVID-19 in August ahead of clinical trials, and the Sputnik V jab has been…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Russia said Saturday its scientists had detected the first case of transmission of the H5N8 strain of avian flu to humans and had alerted the World Health Organization. In televised remarks, the head of Russia's health watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, said scientists at the Vektor laboratory had isolated the strain's genetic…
Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. Severe winter storms in Texas and the Midwest have delayed delivery of at least 6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, White House officials said Friday in a briefing. White House senior adviser for COVID-19 response Andy Slavitt said the 3 days…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain New Zealand launched its COVID-19 vaccination programme Saturday but warned the initial rollout was only a small step in the long battle against the pandemic. The Pacific nation has been widely praised for its handling of the coronavirus and has seen just 26 deaths in a population of five million. The…
A company-initiated recall of two models of EMBLEM S-ICD (Boston Scientific) subcutaneous implantable cardioverter defibrillator pulse generators has been categorized as Class I by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency announced today. The FDA notes that the advisory, which was communicated to patients and doctors in December, applies to 2825 of the…