There were other dosing issues, too, that haven’t been explained even though dosing is the centerpiece of the press release. There are many different regimens in these trials—the UK study has more than two dozen arms, meaning the volunteers were divided into that many groups according to age and how much of the vaccine would …
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Weekly jobless claims ticked up for the second week in a row to 778,000 (on a seasonally adjusted basis), significantly more than the 733,000 claims experts were expecting—the data is a discouraging sign that the record-breaking surge in Covid-19 cases is beginning to impact the labor market. Claims have been falling steadily—with the exception of …
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Airlines have loudly insisted that it’s safe to fly during the coronavirus pandemic, and U.S. travel is surging before the Thanksgiving holiday despite a nationwide spike in virus cases. Yet top U.S. infectious-disease experts say the findings underpinning the carriers’ safety claims aren’t that conclusive. Concerned about the “misinterpretation” of their findings, researchers on a …
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average hit a record high of 30,000 on Tuesday, a symbolically significant benchmark in a year that has been whipsawed by the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic and a bruising election cycle. The Dow rose by over 450 points to close the day at 30,045, a record high for the …
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https://youtu.be/Je1jcG9dElE President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his decision to allow the General Services Administration (GSA) to coordinate with former Vice President Joe Biden for a transition of power. “Remember, the GSA has been terrific, and Emily Murphy has done a great job, but the GSA does not determine who the next President of the …
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In Pennsylvania, if you’re having friends over to socialize, you’re supposed to wear a mask — and so are your friends. That’s the rule, but Barb Chestnut has no intention of following it. “No one is going to tell me what I can or not do in my own home” said Chestnut, 60, of Shippensburg. …
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According to JPMorgan, there’s a potential $300 billion headwind that could weigh on global stocks into year-end: portfolio rebalancing. The fourth quarter rally in stocks would likely trigger the balanced mutual fund universe to sell stocks and buy bonds as they rebalance to their 60/40 stock and bond target allocation. $160 billion in stocks …
WASHINGTON – With nationwide coronavirus hospitalizations topping 80,000 and case counts on the cusp of 200,000 a day, officials and experts are giving their final pleas for caution in the days before Thanksgiving. Average cases reported each day in the United States have jumped nearly 15% in a week, according to data tracked by The …
Oxford-AstraZeneca announce their vaccine is up to 90% effective and can be stored in a normal fridge Trials found the jab to be 90% effective when given as a half-dose then a full dose one month later This dropped to 62% when someone was given a full dose then another full dose a month later …
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U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, facing unprecedented stonewalling from the Trump White House as he tries to prepare his team to govern, blasted the President on Thursday, calling his failure to concede and his relentless questioning of the election results “irresponsible.” “It sends a horrible message about who we are as a country.” As Trump’s legal …
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