With 30,000 people taking part in the first major COVID-19 vaccine study in the United States, hopes are high that the collaboration between drugmaker Moderna and the National Institutes of Health will yield positive results as early as November. Researchers around the world are working on more than 165 vaccine candidates, though only a handful are conducting large-scale human trials.
And now he won’t stop bringing it up out of embarrassment.
Parenting advice on family secrets, adoption, and friends who are family.
Early in his career, he tried hard to distinguish his work from superhero comics.
Lee Buchheit and Mitu Gulati return to discuss sovereign debt and emerging markets.
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
Communities say CDC gives advice — but no resources to follow through.
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
I don’t want her to see our personal information, and I don’t love that he won’t handle this task himself.
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
As millions of people in the U.S. lose work and face eviction due to the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic, the 1% have seen a massive increase to their wealth, with the Amazon founder and world’s richest person, Jeff Bezos, recently adding an estimated $13 billion to his net worth in a single day. World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky says the corporate windfall is yet more evidence that the U.S.
Trump came up with his own date just as Dr. Anthony Fauci was about to grab the limelight with his wonky opening-day pitch, according to The New York Times.
While Republicans are in rebellion against each other over saving the lives and economic health of America, Politico is on the hunt for a “Dems in Disarray” story. They think they found one in a push by delegates to the Democratic National Convention to include a “Medicare for All” plank in the national platform, which they’re trying to make into a big deal break between presumptive nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders.
It’s been months since we’ve all been attempting to practice social distancing and quarantine efforts, but this coronavirus pandemic is still alive and rampant. As the number of cases in the U.S. continues to grow, some folk have grown tired of stay-at-home efforts and are hitting the beach for summer. But such a move doesn’t come without risk.
As Donald Trump continues to downplay and fumble pandemic response, the nation continues to face the novel coronavirus with meager federal oversight or support. Meanwhile, cases continue to rise, and medical professionals continue to brace against growing patient numbers. Now, yet another medical professional that worked on the front lines to fight COVID-19 has died of the virus. Dr.
The former Wisconsin governor’s name was trending for all the wrong reasons.
If the Trump administration’s wantonly destructive approach to the pandemic has left you in tears, in a panic, in a rage, or feeling like you’ve just downed a COVID-laced cocktail of all three, you’re not alone. As you continue to process those emotions, perhaps consider what might have been had our country been led by a functioning adult.
A number of top civil and immigrant rights organizations have sued the Trump administration to stop the imminent expulsion of dozens of unaccompanied migrant children who were being illegally held at the McAllen, Texas, location of a popular hotel chain by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contractor in recent days.
“They look for anything they can find, make it as bad as possible, and blow it up, trying to make it trend,” the president laments.
On this episode of the podcast Social Distance, Katherine Wells gets the results of her coronavirus and antibody tests. She has questions about what they mean, so an expert joins to explain the immune system (with help from James Hamblin’s metaphors).Lisa Butterfield is a tumor immunologist who works in cancer immunotherapy.
