BOSTON (CBS) — Dr. Mallika Marshall is answering your coronavirus vaccine-related medical questions. If you have a question, email her or message her on Facebook or Twitter . Dr. Mallika is offering her best advice, but as always, consult your personal doctor before making any decisions about your personal health. Tracy writes, “How bad are the side effects if you have COPD or have had a double bypass? I’m 53 with COPD and my mom is 70 with a double bypass.” Having underlying lung or heart disease does not mean you’re going to have more or fewer side effects from the COVID-19 vaccines. Some people have no side effects at all. Younger people tend to have more side effects than older people. But it’s hard to predict who will have side effects or which side effects you’ll develop but usually, they are mild to moderate and last no more than 24-36 hours. Please get your vaccines. George asks, “Am I correct in assuming that the air dryers in many (if not most) of public … [Read more...] about Can Shingles Affect The COVID Vaccine? Dr. Mallika Marshall Answers Your Questions
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Joe Biden delivered the Chauvin verdict speech America needed
Gene Seymour is a critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter @GeneSeymour . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN) Here's what you are not going to get in a major address from President Joseph Biden: textured rhetoric woven with references to the classics; eloquent, poetic phraseology ringing like heavenly music and leaving its listeners with echoes of Shakespeare, Lincoln and Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. CNN Digital Expansion 2015 Gene Seymour Here's what you are going to get in a major address from Biden: a torrent of phrases, some of them carefully clipped like a neighbor's hedge, most of them rolling and gushing like a river, all of them aimed not at the gut in the manner of his immediate predecessor, but directly towards the heart, whether to soothe or to rouse, keeping at … [Read more...] about Joe Biden delivered the Chauvin verdict speech America needed
Jury is out — no matter the verdict, Congress must act
Van Jones is an attorney who has spent 25 years working for police accountability and criminal justice reform. He is the co-founder of three criminal justice organizations: the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Dream Corps JUSTICE (formerly #cut50) and the REFORM Alliance. In 1998, he won the Reebok International Human Rights Award for his work against unlawful police violence. In 2018, he helped pass the First Step Act. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN. (CNN) America is bracing for a verdict . After watching footage of a police officer applying brutal force against a man who was handcuffed, crying out for his mother and begging for his life, will the jury find former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murdering George Floyd? Or will jurors doubt that Chauvin's actions were a major cause of Floyd's death and let the officer go free? And what will happen after the verdict? America desperately … [Read more...] about Jury is out — no matter the verdict, Congress must act
Holding the line against Russia in Ukraine
Davyd Arakhamia is the majority leader of Ukraine's parliament and a member of the Servant of the People party. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. (CNN) Russia's menacing troop build-up near Ukraine's border and in our Crimean region in recent days is the latest reminder to our allies of the ongoing campaign of coercion, intimidation and escalation to which Ukrainians have unfortunately become accustomed. Davyd Arakhamia Overtly and covertly, directly and through proxies, Russian aggression is a truly existential concern to our country. If Russia's latest move was a test, our allies in the US and Europe did not blink. Recent consultations between President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky and across our national security establishments, as well as a united front among Ukraine's partners in Europe, sent a clear message to the Kremlin. This may have been the first provocation … [Read more...] about Holding the line against Russia in Ukraine
The US could have 300M extra vaccines. Why won’t it share?
A version of this story appeared in the April 14 edition of CNN's Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction newsletter. Sign up here to receive the need-to-know headlines every weekday . (CNN) The United States could have around 300 million excess Covid-19 shots by the end of July, health policy experts at Duke University estimated in a report Thursday , calling on the country to share doses more widely to address the stark inequality around global vaccine distribution. The US has provided limited shipments of AstraZeneca's vaccine -- which is not yet authorized for use in the United States -- to Mexico and Canada, but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said it won't share shots more broadly until the country is "more confident" in its own supplies . The US is the biggest financial donor to the global vaccine-sharing scheme COVAX, but the country has been tight-fisted with the actual vaccines it has in huge supply, while many others have none at all. Three-quarters of the … [Read more...] about The US could have 300M extra vaccines. Why won’t it share?