BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is not interested in buying possible COVID-19 vaccines through an initiative co-led by the World Health Organization, as it considers it to be slow and high-cost, two EU sources told Reuters, noting that the bloc was in talks with drug makers for vaccines cheaper …
Read More »United States Sets Global Benchmark for COVID-19 Vaccine Price Close to Flu Vaccine
(Reuters) – The United States government has set a benchmark for the price of the COVID-19 vaccine in a $ 2 billion deal announced Wednesday with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and the German biotechnology BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) which will likely pressure other manufacturers to set similar prices, industry analysts told Reuters. …
Read More »Florida TV reporter thanks viewer who saw her cancer
A news reader revealed that he discovered he had cancer when a concerned viewer e-mailed him pointing to a lump on his neck. Victoria Price, a news reader for WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, said “her own health was the furthest thing from my mind,” she said of the coronavirus pandemic. …
Read More »The unemployment situation is very, very bad.
In the first week of July, nearly 1.5 million Americans were receiving unemployment benefits from the little-known Emergency Compensation and Short-Term Emergency Compensation programs. The state of play: For the week ending April 11, the first week for which program data is available, the PEUC and STC programs counted just …
Read More »Alameda COVID-19 Test Center Forced to Close Suddenly – NBC Bay Area
A new coronavirus testing center in Alameda was forced to close suddenly on Wednesday due to an insurance liability issue, to the chagrin of hundreds of people waiting in line to get tested. The facility organized by a city partnership with CityHealth Urgent Care at the Marina Village Research Park …
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