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By Anna Edney Bloomberg News/TNS Moderna Inc.’s vaccine is safe and effective for preventing COVID-19, U.S. regulators said, clearing the way for a second shot to quickly gain emergency authorization and add to the country’s sprawling immunization effort. The Food and Drug Administration’s staff said in a report on Tuesday that the experimental vaccine is 94.1 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19, confirming earlier results released by the company. The report was posted online ahead of a meeting Thursday of agency advisers who will vote whether to recommend authorizatio...

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 punctuated by Trump’s refusal to concede and his frequent insistence, without evidence, that the v...

Word Count: 862 A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gathered Thursday to consider issues including the safety of the shot from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, which employs a technology called messenger RNA that’s never before been used in human vaccines. The government is prepared with a safety monitoring system that will go into place the first day of the immunization campaign, said Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases. “Vaccine safety and effective monitoring are a top priority ...

good morning and welcome to "washington journal." today is saturday, april 20. we are going to be talking about this suspect being captured. we want you to get involved in the conversation. here are the numbers. we especially want to hear from our viewers and listeners in the boston area. you can also reach out to us via social media. more from "the boston globe" this morning. and the lead article talking about the moments of daylight descending on friday. he has elicited their dragnet for a tough week in boston that began with the bombing of the world's most prestigious wakera. if y...

request on the floor and modify it so there's simply a vote on this second-degree amendment, amendment 2808, immediately before the vote on the mikulski amendment. the presiding officer: is there objection to the request as modified? mr. durbin: mr. president, reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the senator from illinois. mr. durbin: i'm not sure i would support or oppose the amendment offered by the senator from indiana, but this matter has been on the floor for three days. there is a pending amendment from your side of the aisle from senator mikulski on this issue...