Health

The death toll from confirmed coronavirus cases in Massachusetts rose from 14 to 8,582, state officials reported Friday, and the number of confirmed cases rose by 212, bringing the total to 113,729. The number of individuals tested for the coronavirus increased by 21,552, for a total of 1,402,730. An additional …

By Carl O’Donnell NEW YORK (Reuters) – US binds payments for COVID-19 faxes to timing milestones for production and approval, according to public documents and a Trump administration official puts pressure on drugmakers including Moderna Inc. to meet ambitious goals. In a deal with Moderna announced this week, federal agencies …

TORONTO – Kirk Muller, behind the bench of Montreal Canadiens as interim head coach on Friday, was too emotional to check his phone between periods, even though he had expected a text like two. He knew the man he replaced, Coach Claude Julien, was watching from his home in Montreal, …

More than half of Russia’s drug investigators say they do not trust the COVID-19 vaccine by President Vladimir Putin because the country announced it had begun its widespread production. Russia’s health ministry said on Saturday that production of the vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya Institute outside Moscow, had “started” with …

The sliding supernatural creatures that stalked her in the shadows were not what put Jurnee Smollett in the right frame to film the new HBO horror series “Lovecraft Country.” What scared the actress was the shooting of the scenes in which her character, Letitia, had to shoot racist white policemen …