United States District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, DC, has imposed two injunctions this morning that prohibit the Federal Bureau of Prisons from moving forward with the execution Wesley Ira Purkey. The Justice Department filed immediate appeals in both cases. A separate temporary suspension has already been established from the …
Read More »Rapidly decreasing immunity of COVID-19 poses a vaccination challenge
LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging evidence that the body’s immune defense against COVID-19 may be short-lived makes it even more difficult for vaccine developers to find vaccines fully capable of protecting people in future waves of infection, Scientists said Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Professor Gottfried Kremsner injects a coronavirus disease vaccine (COVID-19) …
Read More »Nashville saw record cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, remains in modified Phase 2
Yihyun Jeong Nashville Tennessean Published 4:54 PM EDT July 14, 2020 Nashville will remain in its modified Phase 2 reopening for the “foreseeable future,” health officials said Tuesday, after announcing the city’s highest new infection day with 771 new confirmed cases of COVID-19. The bars, ordered to close for at …
Read More »Stocks on hold pending vaccine progress – live updates
This is what you need to know: Credit…Amr Alfiky / The New York Times US stock futures rose and European stocks rose on Wednesday, fueled in part by hopes that the search for a coronavirus vaccine will move forward. Futures for the S&P 500 indicated that the US markets would …
Read More »Tokyo declares coronavirus red alert a ‘pretty severe’ situation
TOKYO (Reuters) – Tokyo raised its coronavirus alert to the highest “red” level on Wednesday, alarmed by a recent surge in new daily cases to record highs, with Governor Yuriko Koike describing the situation in the Japanese capital as “quite severe ” The resurgence of the virus in Tokyo could …
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