The UK is set to receive its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in the coming hours, England's deputy chief medical officer said Thursday. "We expect to receive [the Pfizer vaccine] very shortly in the UK, and I do mean hours, not days," Jonathan Van-Tam told the BBC’s Five Live radio show.

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The White Sox made it pretty clear when they swapped Rick Renteria for Tony La Russa in the manager's chair. But leave it to hitting coach Frank Menechino to slap a slogan on the team's 2021 season. "There is no going back," he said Wednesday. "It is World Series or bust, you know?"

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Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. Central America has been through a wet version of Hell these past few weeks, as first a Category 4 and then a Category 5 hurricane crashed into the same part of Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast, dumping crippling amounts…

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As an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves comes to an end, the head of the United Nations challenged world leaders to make 2021 the year that humanity ends its "war on nature" and commits to a future free of planet-warming carbon pollution.

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December 02, 2020 Where have you gone, flu season? In the Southern Hemisphere, case numbers were so low that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the season ended with “virtually no influenza circulation.” In Europe, which faces an immense COVID-19 threat this winter, only one person was diagnosed with flu from Sept. 28-Nov.…

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