Biden announces bold plan to get America vaccinated. President-elect Joseph R. Biden has unveiled a plan to jump-start the nation’s faltering COVID-19 vaccine effort that will include establishing mass vaccination… Read more »
FDA authorizes Moderna COVID-19 vaccine; McKesson, US Army to help roll out millions of doses to augment national supply. Dispersal of Moderna Inc.’s (Cambridge MA) COVID-19 vaccine to more than… Read more »
COVID-19 vaccines raise hopes for eventual end to pandemic, but cruel months lie ahead. US leaders and scientific advisers urgently called on Americans to wear masks immediately and threatened even… Read more »
Pfizer, BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine shockingly effective in trials, but will effectiveness and safety hold up after widespread distribution? Pfizer Inc. (NYC) and partner BioNTech SE’s (Mainz DEU) highly effectual COVID-19… Read more »
Trump disputes, discredits CDC health officials; sees mass vaccinations by end of year. During a Senate hearing last Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director, Dr. Robert Redfield,… Read more »
Trump says US has deal with Moderna for 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccine. The Trump administration last week announced that it has reached a deal with the biotechnology company… Read more »
US coronavirus deaths top 100,000 as country reopens; Trump cuts ties with WHO. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered his first expression of sympathy in observance of the milestone of… Read more »
The News: Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic nominee, said last Wednesday she hoped for a return to “boring, normal times” after the 2020 election, voicing skepticism of her party’s populist… Read more »
The News: Theranos, the humiliated, disintegrating, and allegedly fraud- packed blood-testing startup, is most often related to its founder and CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. But during the rise and fall of… Read more »
The US Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday (December 7, 2016) to support sweeping legislation that will reshape the way the Food and Drug Administration approves new medicines. It will also… Read more »