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Feb 17 2022
News
Moderna CEO sees potential end of coronavirus pandemic on horizon, though says it will never be eradicated
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on Wednesday said the end of the coronavirus pandemic could be on the horizon.
“I think that is a reasonable scenario,” he told CNBC when asked whether he thought the pandemic was winding down. “There’s an 80% chance that as omicron evolves or SarsCov-2 virus evolves, we are going to see less and less virulent viruses.”
Moderna along with Pfizer
New York Daily NewsFeb 21 2021
Analysis
EXPLAINER: How will we know we’ve reached herd immunity?
Health officials around the world are racing to vaccinate enough people to stop the spread of COVID-19, but what qualifies as “enough” is still an open question.
The goal is to get to “herd immunity,” which is when enough people have immunity, either from vaccination or a past infection, to stop uncontrolled spread.
Herd immunity doesn’t make any one person immune, and outbreaks
Associated PressFeb 16 2022
Opinion
When ‘Freedom’ Means the Right to Destroy
On Sunday the Canadian police finally cleared away anti-vaccine demonstrators who had been blocking the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, a key commercial route that normally carries more than $300 million a day in international trade. Other bridges are still closed, and part of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, is still occupied.
The diffidence of Canadian authorities in the
Paul KrugmanApr 29 2021
News
Sen. Tim Scott Offers Republican Response to Biden: 'The Lord Bless You and Keep You'
In the Republican response to President Biden's address to Congress on Wednesday night, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) drove hard the point that the White House is not listening to science in regards to COVID protocols like the president promised he would.
"Locking vulnerable kids out of the classroom is locking adults out of their future. Our public schools should have opened months ago,"
CBNAug 13 2021
Analysis
These 8 states make up half of US Covid-19 hospitalizations. And the surge among the unvaccinated is overwhelming health care workers
As experts race to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 by encouraging vaccinations and mask wearing, hospital systems in a handful of states are now straining to keep up with the surge.
Eight states, many of which have lagged the national average for vaccinations, have Covid-19 patients that account for at least 15% of their overall hospitalizations: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
CNN (Online News)Jan 03 2022
News
Covid-19’s turbulent new year for American schools
CRASH COURSE — American schools are ringing in another year of anxiety and uncertainty, as Covid-19’s fast-spreading Omicron variant forces campuses to redeploy their pandemic playbooks just as students return from winter break.
— Waves of higher education institutions are setting out plans for remote learning, adding back-to-campus testing or vaccine booster requirements — or outright
PoliticoDec 05 2020
Analysis
Biden bids for activist world role. Will Americans back him?
“America is back.” President-elect Joe Biden’s message to the world has been clear, to friend and foe alike. That could prove easier said than done, though, and one early challenge awaiting the next U.S. administration will serve as a signal.
Unsurprisingly, it is pandemic-related: What will Washington do to distribute promising U.S. and European vaccines in developing countries, amid
Christian Science MonitorAug 12 2021
News
COVID-19 Survivors Have Broad, Longer-Term Immunity
People who have recovered from COVID-19 retain broad and effective longer-term immunity to the disease, according to a new study.
Findings of the study, which is the most comprehensive of its kind so far, have implications for expanding understanding about human immune memory as well as future vaccine development for coronaviruses.
For the longitudinal study in Cell Reports
The Epoch TimesJul 14 2021
Fact Check
No, Biden isn't secretly policing your texts — but both parties have been reading some for years
Speculation that President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee are petitioning cellphone carriers to monitor and edit private text messages is false, DNC and White House officials tell the Washington Examiner.
Still, political operatives from both parties have made a practice of monitoring mass text blasts from the other side in recent years as SMS marketing has exploded as
Washington ExaminerAug 10 2021
Opinion
It’s Not Just About The Masks
It was never just a mask, it has always been a way of thinking. “Mask” is just shorthand.
I got dumped from my volunteer work at the Hawaiian Humane Society for choosing not to wear a mask outside while walking their dogs. Neither science, the CDC, nor the state requires a mask outdoors, and I’m fully vaccinated. Some staff bot saw my naked face and informed me of their “policy.” I
The American Conservative