The US Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense announced an agreement with Pfizer Inc. on Wednesday for “the large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of a Covid-19 vaccine in the United States after the successful manufacture of the vaccine. ” and approval, …
Read More »Man without face mask punches MTA bus driver in the face, says NYPD
MANHATTAN (WABC) – Police are looking for the man who attacked a bus driver in Manhattan after the driver refused to let him in because he was not wearing a mask. The attack occurred around 2:30 am Monday near Madison Avenue and East 29th Street. The suspect, seen on surveillance …
Read More »MIT created a cheap, reusable version of an N95 mask
The researchers have created an affordable, reusable version of an N95 mask that could help healthcare professionals, as fears reappear from the shortage of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The group of experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, created …
Read More »SPACs take over Wall Street
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman raised $ 4 billion Wednesday through an IPO for a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the largest such offering in history. Because it is important: SPACs, publicly traded shell companies designed to acquire other companies, are flooding Wall Street, creating new pathways to public markets for …
Read More »More than a million UK citizens quit smoking during the COVID-19 pandemic
A campaign in English designed to help and encourage people to quit smoking conducted a survey that found that more than a million people have quit since the COVID-19 outbreak. The campaign called Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) reported that 41% of people in the UK who stopped smoking …
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