While the rise in coronavirus infections is forcing U.S. states and European countries to close bars, open-air hospitals and limit social gatherings to small groups of people, such measures are becoming distant memories in most parts of Asia. For months now, life in Asia, where the virus first emerged, has …
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Melbourne, Australia Australia After more than 100 days under one of the world’s longest and toughest lockdowns, residents of Australia, Australia’s second-largest city, are struggling to make ends meet – but these conditions reflect the global division on the need for lockdowns to fight the Covid-19 epidemic. Since July, Melbourne …
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U.S. Department of Disease Control and Prevention More than 1,000 current and former officials of the elite disease-fighting program at the centers have signed an open letter expressing frustration over the country’s public health response to the Kovid-19 epidemic and calling on the federal agency to do so. To play …
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The soda giant’s first diet cola was a culture icon in the 1970s and early ’80s, then pale after the launch of Diet Coke. Although the market share of Tab Tab became almost non-existent, the beverage company continued the brand for decades to please a fairly dedicated base known as …
Read More »Pfizer will be able to apply for emergency use of the Covid-19 vaccine in late November
Pfizer Inc. P.F.E. -0.84% Said it may be ready to apply for emergency-use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine by the end of November, believing that in late-stage human trials will yield positive efficacy and safety data, the first time it or any other leading Western vaccine developer This kind of …
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