US just launched first study to test a version of Moderna s vaccine against the SA variant Apr 01, 2021, 07:29 AM
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Richard Biggs, 20, an evolutionary biology major at the University of Colorado Boulder gets his first dose of the Moderna vaccine from Dr. Laird Wolfe.
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The first clinical trial testing a variant-specific Covid-19 shot launched Wednesday.
The NIH-sponsored study will test an updated version of Moderna s coronavirus vaccine.
The shot is designed to fight the B.1.351 strain first identified in South Africa.
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The first clinical trial to test an updated version of a coronavirus vaccine began Wednesday.
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US universities have been affected by a major data breach.
A massive data breach has hit US Universities including Stanford University, University of California, University of Miami, University of Colorado Boulder, Yeshiva University, Syracuse University, and University of Maryland, Baltimore. Hackers have stolen terabytes of student, prospective student, and employee personal information including transcripts, financial info, mailing addresses, phone numbers, usernames, passwords and Social Security Numbers. These breaches are part of the larger Accellion FTA leak which has affected ~50 organizations. Students who applied to these colleges (or even have an account in the case of UC) are at risk of having their personal and financial information leaked publicly online including their
COVID Vaccine Breakthrough Cases Explained As People Catch Virus After Shot
On 4/1/21 at 4:54 AM EDT
Health officials in Washington have announced they are investigating reports of COVID breakthrough cases, as similar incidents are recorded across the U.S. Breakthrough cases refer to people who catch a virus despite having received the vaccine for it more than two weeks earlier.
Scientists say the incidents are rare, but are to be expected in mass vaccination programs. Although vaccines have been shown to prevent COVID illness in clinical trials, they are not 100 percent effective.
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In a statement released on Tuesday, Washington s Department of Health said 1 million people in the state had been fully vaccinated. Of these, there was evidence that 102 had caught COVID afterwards.
Updated: Apr 1 2021, 6:35 ET
TERRIFYING accounts of a major solar storm that lit up the sky like a great fire in 1582 have been uncovered by researchers.
In a recent study, experts at Cornell University described two records of the cosmic bedlam made by Portuguese observers at the time.
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Artist impression of an ejection of matter from a starCredit: nasa
The event illuminated the sky in violent red light for three consecutive nights, according to one of the sources.
A second source recounts that part of the sky appeared burning in fire flames sparking dread and fear among eye-witnesses.
The depictions match similar accounts of strange night time lights reported in Japan, Germany and dozens of other cities across Europe and Asia.