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Monday marked the first announcement of preliminary results of Phase 3 trials of Covid-19 vaccines, and we expect many more to follow. These results are long awaited: Mass vaccination will …
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Using cellphone data from 1 in 3 Americans, researchers have identified the indoor public places most responsible for the spread of Covid-19 in the spring, and they argue that sharply …
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If public health officials want to get people to wear masks to curb the spread of Covid-19, they might take a lesson from what is now a widely accepted aspect …
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On Monday, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their experimental Covid-19 vaccine candidate prevented more than 90% of infections in healthy volunteers. Based on these encouraging data — potentially among the …
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The world has been waiting for good news on Covid-19 vaccines. Monday it got a bunch of it. A preliminary analysis of the race frontrunner, Pfizer-BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine, suggested it …
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Biden’s transition team unveiled the members of his Covid-19 task force on Monday, a who’s-who of former government health officials, academics, and major figures in medicine. The …
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Pfizer and partner BioNTech said Monday that their vaccine against Covid-19 was strongly effective, exceeding expectations with results that are likely to be met with cautious excitement — and relief — in …
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As the U.S. edges closer to approving a vaccine for Covid-19, a difficult decision is emerging as a central issue: Should people in hard-hit communities of color receive priority access …
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More than a dozen states have seen record-high Covid-19 infections in the past five days, as the country experiences case counts never seen before anywhere in the world and, once …
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