Text size Dreamstime Older adults who participated in Moderna‘s Phase 1 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine responded just as well as younger adults, according to data, the biotech company presented Wednesday morning to a key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advisory panel. This is important because Covid-19 is not …
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The company is also investigating allegations of possible misconduct within its human resources department, the spokesman said. The Wall Street Journal first reported on the news on Tuesday. When McDonald’s severed ties with the then CEO Steve Easterbrook last year said he had “shown poor judgment on a recent consensual …
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The first Amazon Fresh supermarket has been set up in just a few weeks just outside Los Angeles in Woodland Hills, California. The concept is meant to reach other customers then Amazon (AMZN)‘s Whole Foods chain, which it acquired for $ 13.7 billion three years ago. Whole Foods specializes in …
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Google’s own engineers were worried about the way the company secretly tracked the movements of people who did not want to be tracked until a 2018 Associated Press investigation discovered the shady surveillance, according to unsealed documents in a consumer fraud case. The peek behind the scenes stems from a …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency authorization to Abbott Laboratories for a $ 5 rapid response COVID-19 antigen test that is about the size of a credit card. The inexpensive, rapid-response test could be administered in an office of a physician as a school nurse and uses …
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