Global gaps in access to Covid-19 vaccines are raising concerns that the continued spread of the coronavirus will breed more dangerous versions of the pathogen, weakening medical weapons and further crippling economies. In a race to catch up with emerging coronavirus variants, wealthy countries are already benefiting from potent vaccines. While the U.S., Britain and […]
Wait, so, what’s this we’re all hearing about Clare Crawley and Dale Moss supposedly already breaking up after only just getting together a few months ago on The Bachelorette?! Is this real life?? It couldn’t be true, could it?! Related: Dale Turned Down ‘The Bachelorette’ Multiple Times Before Saying Yes For Clare! As it turns out, the rumors you’ve been […]
At this rate, the coronavirus is literally never going to go away — and the vaccines our scientists are working so hard to develop won’t matter one bit — because everybody is just going to get sick immediately, anyways. Seriously, and it’ll be because of things like this! Related: ‘Harry Potter’ Star Reveals Her Newborn […]
Enlarge / US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on his plan to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Wilmington, Delaware on January 15, 2021. (credit: Getty | Angela Weiss) President-elect Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a five-point plan to try to rescue the country’s beleaguered COVID-19 vaccination campaign and achieve his stated goal of reaching 100 million […]
The vaccine rollout and incoming Democratic administration has Wall Street feeling pretty darn optimistic: Goldman Sachs is even going as far to project 2021 GDP growth of over 6%—which, if it occurred, would be the highest growth rate since 1984. But don’t pencil it in just yet. Look no further than the jobs report on […]
Enlarge / Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), who allegedly deceived states on the vaccine supply, receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during an event at the NIH Clinical Center on Tuesday, December 22, 2020. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) The Trump administration announced Tuesday, January 12, that it would begin shipping reserved vaccine […]
Enlarge / A picture taken on January 15, 2021, shows a pharmacist holding with gloved hands a vial of the undiluted Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. (credit: Getty | JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) With mere days left in office, President Donald Trump has proposed $27.4 billion in brutal budget cuts—including clawing back 5.1 billion from global public health […]
Norway said Covid-19 vaccines may be too risky for the very old and terminally ill, the most cautious statement yet from a European health authority as countries assess the real-world side effects of the first shots to gain approval. Norwegian officials said 23 people had died in the country a short time after receiving their […]
Good morning. David Meyer here in Berlin, filling in for Alan today. The United States has had an attention-grabbingly tumultuous start to 2021, so I’d like to also highlight the (mercifully non-violent) turmoil in European politics right now. Brexit is so last year. Here’s what’s happened in the EU just in the last three days—and […]
Happy Friday, Bull Sheeters. There’s plenty of red on the screen this morning. That’s despite a flurry of headlines which the markets of yesteryear would’ve swooned over: President-elect Joe Biden plans to ask Congress for a new $1.9 trillion stimulus spending plan and Fed Chief Jerome Powell wants you to know lower-for-longer is here to […]