A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman was sentenced to 57 months, COVID-19 infections and deaths surged to all-time highs in Ukraine, and U.S. regulators signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Lia Piazza has today’s News in :90.
The pause of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine was a positive precaution for the public. Opinions Editor Maddie Peters argues that the vaccine’s pause opens a much-needed conversation about women’s health.
The U.S. is recommending a “pause” in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate reports of potentially dangerous blood clots.
Democrats approved an act late Wednesday to overhaul policing nationwide, Minnesota health officials celebrated the arrival of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and St. Thomas officials hope to turn the university into a COVID-19 vaccination site. Reporter Elijah Todd-Walden has today’s News in :90.
The U.S. is getting a third vaccine to prevent COVID-19, as the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday cleared a Johnson & Johnson shot that works with just one dose instead of two.
Thirty-six positive COVID-19 tests were reported last week by the University of St. Thomas’ Center For Well-Being Monday, Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been paused for an investigation into a study participant’s “unexplained illness” and Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett is on Capitol Hill for a second day of hearings. Ad/PR representative Isabel Crosby has today’s News in :90.
