BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) could produce 1 billion doses of its potential COVID-19 vaccine next year if it proves successful and would consider injecting healthy volunteers with the new coronavirus if there are not enough patients for definitive studies, a company member said. FILE PHOTO: Small bottles …
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Dwarf planet Ceres shown in false color, with Occator Crater visible.Image: NASA / JPL-CalTech / UCLA / MPS / DLR / IDA Scientists add the mysterious bright spots on Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt, to a giant reservoir of salt water beneath the crust of the …
Read More »Coronavirus: Health Secretary Alex Azar expects US vaccine by December | World news
U.S. Secretary of Health Alex Azar said Tuesday morning that the United States hopes to have a coronavirus vaccine approved by December and tamped Russia’s celebrations on discovering its own vaccine after rapid development. “The point is not to be first,” Azar said. “The point is to have a vaccine …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, a move reported by Moscow as proof of his scientific prowess. PHOTO PHOTO: Russian President …
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(Reuters) – The number of new COVID-19 cases among children in the United States has increased 40% in the last two weeks of July, according to a report released just weeks before tens of millions of American students are scheduled to start the new school year. PHILO PHOTO: A child …
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