Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Friday dashed prospects for a coronavirus vaccine being approved before the election with an open letter explaining the company would not apply for regulatory clearance for its vaccine candidate until the third week of November at the earliest. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Friday dashed prospects for a coronavirus vaccine
Elections have consequences. Some of those consequences affect our health and that of the biosphere, the thin, living shell covering Earth. Those impacts increased after our last presidential election. The next election will likely cause even more impacts. Early this year, President Donald Trump claimed “nobody could have predicted something like (COVID-19).” Yet
Amid this reality, Tyson Foods recently announced a plan to open medical clinics at several of its U.S. plants. Coupled with the addition of nurses and administrative positions in the company’s health services team, executives claim these plans will help “promote a culture of health” among workers. With the new initiative, Tyson joins
KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Asian governments are doing more to harass and arrest journalists reporting on the coronavirus pandemic and to keep accurate news of the crisis from reaching their populations than those in any other region, press advocates say. Tracking by the International Press Institute, a global network of journalists run out
President Trump’s shocking positive test result for COVID-19 could impact the U.S. stock market in the weeks ahead if the president’s condition worsens or if it influences the November elections. The market impact on Friday, however, was surprisingly muted: The S&P 500 index closed the day down by 1 percent, while the Dow
Business groups are throwing their support behind a pandemic insurance bill modeled after a post- law that created a federal backstop for claims related to acts of terrorism. The Pandemic Risk Insurance Act, much like the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act TRIA, would provide compensation for losses resulting from pandemics or public health emergencies.
A lot has been made of the so-called “quarantine.” Now, a new study suggests certain people are more likely to binge eat during the coronavirus pandemic than others. Most often they are young adults who faced social stigma about being overweight before COVID- swept the globe. The researchers found this group had higher
You just breath the air, and that s how it s passed … This is deadly stuff, said President Donald Trump. The date of Bob Woodward s bombshell recording, February , is important. President Trump knew then the threat of COVID- – and had no qualms about downplaying it. We don t want
The so-called Vaccine Administration Management System is the latest big health data project the administration has launched and follows this summer’s bungled rollout of a new system to track hospital coronavirus cases that displaced a system long used by states and the CDC. The vaccine system is being developed by Deloitte using technology
COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), an enveloped positive stranded RNA virus and the third member of the family Coronaviridae which has emerged as a zoonotic infection. The predecessor of this new pathogen caused the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and the Middle