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February 1, 2021 6:15 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff The world could be on the verge of having two more vaccines to fight the pandemic, but virus variants popping up worldwide are forcing vaccine-makers to develop boosters for a disease that’s constantly changing and could remain active for years. The vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are already in use. Meanwhile, new studies show that two others—from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax—pack potent punche...

January 26, 2021 6:02 AM By Brandon Lee President Joe Biden says he anticipates that coronavirus vaccines will be available to anyone in the nation by spring, an ambitious target that can only be met with sharp increases in the current pace of inoculations. The U.S. is currently administering about 1.2 million shots a day, data compiled by Bloomberg show, and Biden said yesterday he expects that will soon reach 1.5 million doses. He said that his administration has “commitments...

Southwest Airlines and Salesforce.com followed in second and third place, respectively. Riley Griffin Bloomberg - 6 News Result(s) World News | Riley Griffin, Bloomberg | Monday January 25, 2021 Merck & Co. is discontinuing development of its two experimental Covid-19 vaccines after early trial data showed they failed to generate immune responses comparable to a natural infection or existing vaccines. ...

Moderna to bolster its vaccine to fight SA Covid-19 strain By Robert Langreth (Bloomberg) – Moderna says it plans to begin human studies of a booster shot for its Covid-19 vaccine to help it protect against a more-transmissible South Africa virus variant, after a lab test showed the shot may be less potent against that strain. In lab tests conducted with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Moderna says its vaccine produced six-fold lower levels of neutralising antibodie...

January 7, 2021 6:12 AM By Brandon Lee Democrats, holding the slimmest-possible majority in the Senate, will set the health-care agenda in the new Congress but face an uphill battle in sending major legislation to the president’s desk. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to build on the Affordable Care Act by expanding its insurance subsidies and creating a government-run insurance plan. Those ideas face strong political headwinds. Election runoff victories by Jon Ossoff and Ra...

December 21, 2020 6:11 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff A fix for unexpected medical bills will advance as part of a year-end spending package after key lawmakers reached agreement on how to address the issue earlier this month. The text of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending measure and $900 coronavirus stimulus package hasn’t been released yet. The House and Senate plan to vote on the measure today. Both chambers passed, and President Donald Trump signed, a single-day stopgap ...

December 14, 2020 7:01 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee Members of the Electoral College meet today to officially elect Joe Biden, a moment some Republican lawmakers have targeted as the end of President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results as far as they’re concerned. The constitutionally mandated procedure across the 50 states and the District of Columbia usually passes with little notice. But this year, it may help conclude a chaotic election season pun...

Dec 12, 2020, 8:31 PM – Updated on Dec 13, 2020, 9:06 PM Word Count: 1627 (Bloomberg) — If successful, the plan could help end a pandemic that’s killed almost 300,000 Americans in the 47 weeks since the first case was recorded. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. picked up the first shipment of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccines from a Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory on Sunday morning. The first deliveries are scheduled for Monday morning and the initial lot will be in all 50 states...