Hospitals are scrambling for plans to determine if health care workers can receive the Covid-19 vaccine first, with the expectation of an initial supply of the amount needed to vaccinate all high-priority employees. Enough is expected to deliver the December vaccine to about 200 million people, according to federal officials. …
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Governments are moving toward approving the first vaccines to contain Covid-19, but public concerns about dosage safety are threatening to undermine those efforts. A survey by the University of Hamburg found that about 40% of respondents in seven European countries were hesitant or unwilling to prepare for the Covid-19 vaccine …
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Drug development for sickle-cell disease, largely neglected for decades, is becoming a crowded field: two papers published on Saturday in the New England Journal of Medicine give promising results from a study of experimental therapies, including Crisper gene editing for the disease. In addition, Beam Therapeutics Inc. The American Society …
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Dr .. Michelle Schultz Bayes, shifts overnight at St. Lucas Health System Hospitals near Idaho, treating several hundred critically ill Covid-19 patients filling hospital beds in her state during the most severe epidemic period so far. She, like many other health care workers, faces another challenge in light of the …
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American stocks tumbled on Wednesday, pulling back from Tuesday’s record highs, rising cases of coronavirus and a slowdown in private sector job creation weighed on investor sentiment. The S&P 500 fell 0.3% a day after the benchmark hit its 27th closing record of the year. The Nasdaq Composite also fell …
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