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The FINANCIAL — Kaiser Permanente study shows time since vaccination plays a key role in COVID-19 breakthrough infections. A recent study led by Kaiser Permanente found the Pfizer-BioNTech, BNT162b2, mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective against hospitalization for 6 months after full vaccination, even in the face of widespread transmission of the delta variant. The study was published in The Lancet. (An earlier draft of the study was previously posted on The Lancet preprint server.)...

Safety, well-being and mental health. its difficult to see coverage that misrepresenting our work and motives. at the heart of these accusations is this idea that we prioritize profit over safety and well-being. thats just not true. we are committed to doing more research and making it publicly available. while senators from both parties say they support subpoenas for research of the company that they declined to release and news tonight ore than facebook about covid vaccine boosters. johnson & ...

Drop across the country, and johnson & johnson is now asking the fda to authorize a booster for its one-shot coronavirus vaccine. cnns yjason carroll has all th latest for us. >> reporter: today, johnson & johnson asked the fda to approve an additional dose of its coronavirus vaccine. j&j researchers released data from studies which showed boosting its single-shot dose at two months or six months provided greater protection against moderate to critical covid-19 symptoms. in their request, j&j le...

The record on the j&j shot. what is your read on the effectiveness of the shot, and the booster. and so many people are asking if they can mix brands. if people have had to modernas, can they get a pfizer booster. if people have had one j&j, can they get a moderna booster. can you take that on for us? >> so the data on two doses of j&j, a second dose after the first one is looking really good. protection well into the nineties for severe disease, hospitalization, and death. and also protection a...

Audience. so facebook only cares about children to the extent theyre of monetary value. last week, facebooks global head of safety, antigone davis, told me that facebook does not allow targeting of certain harmful content to teens. miss davis stated we dont allow weight loss ads to be shown to people under the age of 18, yet a recent study found that facebook permitted targeting of teens as young as 13 that show a young womans thin waist and websites that promote anorexia. do you think facebook ...

To get your hands on rapid test kits to use at home, test in the morning before you hang out with your family. as long as youre negative, you can relax that day. then the other two pieces i would add is do as much as you can outdoors, especially if you have more vulnerable elderly people or immunocompromised people in your household and have some masks on hand, especially, again, if you have some of those more vulnerable people in the household. >> i also wanted to get you on the record on the j...

Can your internet do that? >> sandra: fox news alert. francis haugen testifying on capitol hill saying the social media giant is misleading the public on its progress against hate speech. >> facebook knows that they are leading young users to anorexia. it is pulling families apart. in places like ethiopia it is fanning ethnic vie len. facebook has focused on scale over safety and is likely they are using artificial intelligence to try to identify harmful ads without allowing the public oversight...

Researchers analyzed data from more than 3 million people and found the effectiveness against infection fell to 47% after five months. and a separate new study confirms who has been hit hardest by the coronavirus. african-americans, native americans, and latinos died in far greater numbers early on during the pandemic compared to white americans. the study found that death rates in those groups during that period were more than twice that of white or asian-americans. in new york city, protesters...

"the wall street journal" was reporting all you had to do was prove you can run up the seven flights of stairs within 90 seconds and fit into your spacesuit, essentially, to be able to go into one of these flights you can do that, sounds like he can, he should be good to go. you know, it is all these sort of longer term risks of long-term space flight, radiation, isolation, all those sorts of things wont apply to him. this is a very short flight. >> well, good for him. i hope he enjoys it. no be...

Because of new variants like delta? what this study seems to show, a big real world study is that this seems to be more related to just time, as more time passes your overall effectiveness against infections seems to go down. when we say infections, this could be anybody who gets a positive test and is surprised because they feel fine, asymptomatic to people who have more severe illness. and what you find is that that, you know, just overall infection protection does seem to wain. but the thing ...