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New York state s public colleges and universities will require COVID-19 vaccinations for all students taking in-person classes in the fall, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.
The vaccine mandate for the State University of New York, or SUNY, and City University of New York, or CUNY, systems is the latest development in the dire push to boost vaccination rates that have slowed in recent weeks.
The mandate would be pending the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, granting full approval for COVID-19 vaccines, Cuomo added.
Currently, three COVID-19 vaccines have been granted emergency use authorization, which allows for distribution prior to FDA finalizing a standard review. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Friday became the first to apply for the full approval, but the timeline remains unclear.
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Andrew Yang landed the endorsement of Rep. Grace Meng today, boosting his bid to be New York City’s first Asian American mayor at an auspicious time for the city’s Asian community.
“I will work my heart out to make sure that he is elected,” Meng, who represents Queens, said at an endorsement event in Flushing. Meng will be a co-chair of Yang’s mayoral campaign, joining Rep. Ritchie Torres and Martin Luther King III.
Meng is the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York and the highest-ranking Asian official in the city.
“I would be honored to follow in her footsteps as the first Asian American mayor in the history of our great city. I will be a mayor for all New Yorkers, and I think New Yorkers sense that,” Yang said. “But I will say that it will give me a special degree of pride to help make Asian Americans in our city feel like we are part of the fabric of this city,” he said, adding that the community has been treated as a
SARS-CoV-2 main protease conformations are temperature-dependent
New research led by Daniel A Keedy of City University of New York, USA, shows the structure of the main protease (M
pro) of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the causative pathogen of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – reacts to being heated and cooled. The temperature-dependent conformations could act as potential therapeutic targets to neutralize the virus.
“Together, our data reveal a network of subtle but provocative temperature-dependent conformational heterogeneity, not only at the catalytic site but also spanning several functionally relevant sites throughout M
PRO, which may help motivate an allosteric strategy for antiviral drug design to combat COVID-19 and/or future coronavirus pandemics.”
Covid-19: Global Cases Fall but the Virus Is Surging in Countries That Lack Vaccines
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The W.H.O. says a coronavirus variant first found in India is a “variant of concern.” The F.D.A. authorizes the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds.
Here’s what you need to know:
Buddhist monks were tested at a temple in Bangkok after a monk there died of Covid-19.Credit.Rungroj Yongrit/EPA, via Shutterstock
After a devastating year with wave after wave of coronavirus infections around the world, new cases and deaths are falling in many of the Western nations that were once among the hardest hit. But while the virus recedes in wealthy nations with robust vaccination campaigns, it is pummeling India and threatening to swamp Southeast Asian countries that until now had largely kept the virus at bay.
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