Key Points Seventeen states told the Supreme Court that they support an effort by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue to effectively reverse President-elect Joe Biden’s projected win in the Electoral College. The filing came a day after Paxton asked the Supreme Court for permission to sue Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over their …
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Forty-six state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Facebook, accusing the social media giant of anti-competitive acquisitions. The lawsuit from states – led by New York’s Letitia James (D), who is joined by 45 other attorneys general – alleges Facebook sought to maintain its monopoly power by acquiring …
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(Dec. 9) Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made a surprise re-entry into talks on a 2020 pandemic-relief package with a $916 billion proposal that opened a potential new path to a year-end deal despite objections from Democrats over elements of the plan. After largely leaving the task to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell since Election Day, …
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The first signs of a post-Thanksgiving surge in coronavirus cases are beginning to show up in data released by states across the country in a troubling prelude of what may become the deadliest month of the pandemic so far. Those hints of an uptick in case counts come as the country faces an already …
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Introduction Prognostic factors are needed to aid clinicians in managing Covid‐19, a respiratory illness. Lymphocytopenia has emerged as a simply obtained laboratory value that may correlate with prognosis. Methods In this article, we perform a retrospective cohort review study on patients admitted to one academic hospital for Covid‐19 illness. We analyzed basic demographic, clinical, and …
The FDA said data from Pfizer’s Covid vaccine trials show that side effects are common, though there are “no specific safety concerns identified that would preclude issuance of an” emergency use authorization. Trial participants in the Moderna and Pfizer studies told CNBC they developed more significant symptoms following the second dose. The Pfizer–BioNTech coronavirus vaccine …
The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 turned to gains on Tuesday after positive news related to coronavirus vaccines. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said in a report that there was no reason not to approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine while AstraZeneca confirmed its earlier findings on the efficacy of its …
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Some of the senators working on a $908 billion coronavirus relief plan say their bipartisan proposal could be finalized early this week. GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy told Fox News that President Donald Trump had “indicated” he would support it, and he expressed optimism that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would too. Sen. Mark Warner, a …
CNN)Coronavirus vaccines will provide some light at the end of the tunnel, but they alone won’t mean an end to Covid-19, one leading health official said Friday. “I would like to say vaccines do not equal zero Covid,” said Dr. Michael Ryan, the executive director of the World Health Organization’s Health Emergencies Program. “Vaccines and …
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There are a number of studies that have come out about COVID 19 prognosis. We now have a powerful way to predict which patients with COVID 19 pneumonia are more likely to die, and more likely to require longer stays in the hospital. We already know that less than 15% of people who get COVID …
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