The Trump administration intends to flood regulators with a new definition for shower heads, allowing the president and other citizens to return to the good old days of high-pressure showers. De Department of Energy can release a decades-old regulation limiting the amount of water that can flow through showers, according …
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Pfizer, BioNTech report promises Phase I / II data from Covid-19 vaccine
Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine candidate deliver promising results. Credit: BioNTech SE. Sign up here for GlobalData’s free bi-weekly Covid-19 report on the latest information your sector needs to know. Pfizer and BioNTech have reported positive, preliminary results from the ongoing Phase I / II clinical trial of mRNA-based Covid-19 …
Read More »First COVID-19 vaccine volunteers in the US describe their experience, side effects as San Francisco Bay Area launches its tears
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) – As we first reported on ABC7 News, a Phase 3 trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine will begin this month in the Bay Area. It is one of six companies that are part of the US Government’s Operation Warp Speed to develop a vaccine. The San Francisco …
Read More »Bay Area contributes to two major tears of coronavirus vaccines
Bay Area residents are joining the global race for a coronavirus vaccine this week, with developers of two of the most promising candidates seeking hundreds of volunteers in San Francisco, Oakland and Santa Clara County. Kaiser Permanente enrolled its first participants in Northern California in a worldwide clinical trial for …
Read More »How MIT built its own COVID-19 test trailer that can test a maximum of 1500 people per day
A team of engineers, architects, medical staff, and experts has built a 60-foot trailer that now serves as the main test site for asymptomatic members of the MIT community who need to return to campus. “It really is an example of MIT at its best – groundbreaking innovation,” said MIT …
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