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The new and seemingly more contagious variant of the coronavirus that has set off alarm in Britain has been reported for the first time in the U.S., in a Colorado man who hadn't been traveling, triggering a host of questions about how it got here and adding urgency to the nation's vaccination drive.

A surge in pediatric coronavirus cases over the last several weeks has seen the number of illnesses in kids surpass 2 million, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Britain became the first in the world to approve AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine, with rollout and distribution set to get underway by early next week.

Southern California hospitals, already overwhelmed by coronavirus patients, are now facing a new problem -- a shortage of oxygen, according to a report. 

As the second wave of coronavirus sweeps New York, the state's governor has threatened legal action not only against a Brooklyn-based network of medical clinics that allegedly distributed the Moderna coronavirus vaccine out of sequence with state guidelines but those who received the first shot before their eligibility.

Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, of Boston Medical Center, received his first dose of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday and said he immediately felt his heart racing.

The doctor in Massachusetts believed to be the first in the U.S. to suffer an adverse reaction to Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine said that the symptoms began within moments of the shot being administered.

Parents now have an extra reason to say no to candy, cake and ice cream for young children.

Despite the severe global toll of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization warns that the outbreak is “not necessarily the big one” — and urges the world to get “serious” about preparedness.

U.K.’s first recipient of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine received her second dose of the shot on Tuesday, becoming the first person outside of clinical study to be fully inoculated, according to reports.

A Chicago family says one haircut led to the coronavirus-related deaths of their two parents after the illness ripped through several family members within days.

A study on coronavirus antibodies in Wuhan’s population conducted back in mid-April suggests the true tally of COVID-19 infections may have been 10 times higher than the numbers were reported by health officials.

Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed.

A coronavirus variant in the United Kingdom has caused alarm because of the possibility that it might spread more easily. But even if that turns out to be true, experts say the COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out will likely still work on the variant.

2020 was quite the year — though likely not in the way many were expecting. 

Hospitals in Los Angeles County are reporting a surge in COVID-19 patients and some have been forced to temporarily cease ambulance arrivals and use gift shops as makeshift treatment rooms.

After reports surfaced of a "mysterious, pneumonia-like" illness in early 2020, the science and medical community has since undertaken efforts to develop, manufacture and overcome regulatory hurdles for vaccines and therapeutics to combat the deadly novel coronavirus, hopefully finding a way out of the global pandemic at unprecedented speed.

While researchers continue to study lasting, long-term effects following infection from the novel coronavirus, new reports reiterate the so-called “long haulers” experiencing a distorted sense of smell, catching odd, unpleasant fishy, sulphur and burning scents, per reports.

The New York Health Department (DOH) Commissioner Howard Zucker announced ParCare Community Health Network – with five locations in Brooklyn and one in Manhattan – was under criminal investigation over concerns it "may have fraudulently obtained" the coveted COVID-19 vaccine."

Though figures from a federal COVID-19 vaccine-tracking system are likely an underestimate, the U.S. will probably fall short of its original goal of 20 million individuals vaccinated against the novel coronavirus by the end of the year.