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Customers stand socially distanced as they queue to enter Amazon’s new Amazon Fresh store in Ealing, west London. Amazon, last week, opened the first of its Amazon Fresh grocery stores in Europe, where customers will be able to buy goods without the need to queue at a checkout. Customers will scan a QR code on their way into the store, with cameras and technology identifying the items shoppers take from the shelves.—AFP A security challenge worthy of a Bond movie Firms are using armed guards and trucks with panic buttons and kill switches to protect vaccine shipments that present a challe...

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The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 8.6 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 13.4 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 4.5 % LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today's posts include: U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 55,071 U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 46,388 U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 1,924 U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 23.5 % of the population The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improv...

$5.2 billion for research and development related to vaccines or therapeutics. Some of that money could also go to manufacturing and production, but the bill doesn't specify how much.  The bill's text focuses on COVID-19 but would also allow the agency to use the funds for other diseases. The Food and Drug Administration would receive $500 million. Part of that money would go toward facilitating COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing, inspecting manufacturers producing vaccines or therapeutics, and oversight of the supply chain.  Part of the supply chain oversight would include mitigating drug sho...