As the Covid-19 crisis intensifies in the United States, the fight for an effective vaccine is about to collide with the electoral calendar. Pfizer (ticker: PFE) says it will seek authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine starting in October. Meanwhile, the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine …
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Charmin’s toilet paper maker Procter & Gamble Co. has teamed up with other consumer product conglomerates with its own updated climate change campaign, and agrees with its rivals that the next decade is a critical time for action, but drawing new concerns from natural resource groups. CEO David Taylor and …
Read More »‘This was preventable’: US coronavirus cases hit a new record of 70,000 in a single day
The increase in coronavirus cases has reached a new record. On Thursday, the US recorded more than 70,000 new cases of COVID-19, compared to 20,000 per day in June, according to aggregated data from Johns Hopkins University, the COVID Monitoring Project, and other independent estimates from the Washington Post. and …
Read More »Can old vaccine technology end the Covid-19 pandemic?
Text size Mladen Antonov / AFP / Getty Images As the new coronavirus pandemic continues in the U.S., people yearn for a victory after Washington’s spectacular failures to secure adequate supplies of test kits and personal protective equipment. Success depends on whether any of the candidates for the fast-track Covid-19 …
Read More »Harvard researchers dispute CDC directors’ claim that the spike in the COVID-19 case in the south is due to vacationers in the north
A group of researchers from the Harvard Institute of Global Health said the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was wrong earlier this week when he suggested that an increase in COVID-19 cases in the southern states It was caused by people driving there from the northern …
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