The senators explained that their version of the covid relief package provides “more targeted assistance” to Americans with the greatest need.
Month: January 2021
Maryland has reported a case of the new, highly transmissible Covid-19 variant first found in South Africa
Moderna asked the FDA to allow it to put more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in each vial to alleviate a bottleneck in manufacturing, a source tells CNBC.
After years of accelerating declines in smoking, tobacco giant Altria said it saw a reversal in the trend as consumers changed their habits during the pandemic.
Misuse of funds at the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority was so common that officials called it the “Bank of BARDA,” the watchdog said.
Britain has been hit particularly hard by the pandemic that emerged in the country almost a year ago.
The former Los Angeles Lakers great joined CNBC’s “Closing Bell” to support NBA stars spreading awareness to get vaccinated.
The Biden administration aims for 100 million vaccinations within his first 100 days as president.
President Joe Biden has painted a bleak picture of the nation’s coronavirus outbreak, warning that it will take months to turn around the pandemic’s trajectory
New York is running about 1,000 genome tests per week to look for new, more infectious Covid variants, the state’s chief physician, Howard Zucker, said Friday.
The new CDC director said Thursday that the Biden administration is trying to figure out exactly what’s holding up the national Covid-19 vaccine rollout.
Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to give remarks on Thursday as the United States’ head delegate for the WHO’s annual executive board meetings.
“We just can’t get it and we can’t get it on any reliable path. It’s very difficult,” Holy Name Medical Center CEO Michael Maron told CNBC.
The request comes after an alarmingly slow start to the national vaccine rollout, with the country millions of injections short of initial projections.
“One thing that’s clear is that the issue of getting 100 million doses in the first 100 days is absolutely a doable thing,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday.
Democratic governors criticized the Trump admin for apparently misleading public health officials about holding a stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines in reserve.
The Biden administration will also “quickly jumpstart” efforts to make the vaccines available at local pharmacies across the U.S.
Since the disclosure, Siemens Energy has “steadfastly refused” to assure GE that documents containing the trade secrets have been destroyed, the lawsuit says.
“It was very disturbing. And it was, it was very, very hard to watch,” Verma said of the attack on the Capitol, having witnessed events unfold from her office.
A more infectious coronavirus strain first identified in South Africa is “disturbing” and could pose a threat to Covid antibody drugs, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.
Moderna doesn’t expect to have clinical trial data on its coronavirus vaccine in young children until 2022, CEO Stephane Bancel said.
A record amount of young people in Israel are contracting the virus accounting for a record one quarter of the most serious Covid cases
“We’re going to continue to see mortality in the 2,500-5,000 a day range,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told the McClatchy news agency in an interview.
The White House coronavirus task force said there could be a new variant of the virus that evolved in the U.S. and is driving spread, a document obtained by NBC News said.
It’s likely that the variant is already circulating in Texas, because the man had no prior travel history, the state’s health commissioner said in a statement.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled his scheduled coronavirus update on Wednesday after a mob of protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Israel braces for a third national lockdown even with the nation seeing success in the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
If England doesn’t implement a new lockdown, the nation’s health system will become overwhelmed in 21 days, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.