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Covid-19 Vaccine Developed by U.S. Army Begins Human Testing © usamrdc handout/Shutterstock The U.S. Army will start testing among adult volunteers an Army-developed Covid-19 vaccine that researchers say may protect against a variety of coronavirus variants. Army doctors plan to start testing on Tuesday the protein-based shot in as many as 72 adults ages 18 to 55 at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md., the institute said. The team will test whether the vaccine safely induces the desired immune response in study subjects. Initial results of the study could become...

Germany, Italy, France and Spain joined the ranks of European countries that have temporarily halted use of the AstraZeneca shot.

Covid-19 Vaccines Yield Breakthroughs in Long-Term Fight Against Infectious Disease     The pandemic has opened a new era for vaccines developed with gene-based technologies, techniques that have long stumped scientists and pharmaceutical companies, suggesting the possibility of future protection against a range of infectious disease. Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, which was authorized Saturday for use in the U.S., is at the vanguard of a class of shots designed to mobilize a person’s immune defenses against the disease. It will be the first Covid-19 vaccine a...

By Peter Loftus A new analysis from Israel found that maximum protection from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE's Covid-19 vaccine kicked in at least two weeks after people received the second dose, and it held up even against a more transmissible variant. The Israeli analysis of real-world use of the vaccine, released Thursday, also showed that the shot was highly effective at preventing infections that don't cause symptoms, a sign that it could be helping to limit spread of the virus. And the data indicated two doses were more protective than one. The shot's performance in Israe...

Sunburn — The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics — 3.2.21 The Legislative Session is here, and Florida Influencers believe that come April 30, Gov. Ron DeSantis will be the big winner. Florida Politics asked the state’s top consultants, lobbyists and political minds who stands to have the best Legislative Session and 43% picked the Governor. His believers include more than half of Republican Influencers, with just 27% of Democrats saying he’s their early favorite. For the minority party, that honor goes to Senate President Wilton Simpson, albeit by a nar...