by Dylan | Nov 23, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
U.K.-based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and England’s University of Oxford announced Monday that late-stage trials show their COVID-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing the disease. The determination comes from an interim analysis of their phase...
by Dylan | Nov 19, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
Election officials in Georgia are expected to reveal today the results of their hand audit of the ballots cast in the general election, following Wednesday’s 11:59 p.m. ET deadline to complete the audit. Officials there have repeatedly said they don’t expect the...
by Dylan | Nov 19, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
Unemployment ticked up last week as 742,000 new unemployment claims were filed, according to numbers released this morning by the U.S. Labor Department. That number is a bit worse than expectations and is an increase of 31,000 from the previous week’s revised level of...
by Dylan | Nov 19, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
Oxford University says phase 2 trial results of the COVID-19 vaccine they’re developing with pharmaceutical company Astra Zeneca show that “the vaccine causes few side effects, and induces immune responses in both parts of the immune system in all age groups,” meaning...
by Dylan | Nov 19, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
On the same day the U.S. surpassed 250,000 total reported deaths from COVID-19, the nation on Wednesday also experienced the highest single-day fatality numbers in six months. A reported 1,869 people died of the virus Wednesday, according to the Covid Tacking...
by Dylan | Nov 9, 2020 | What You Might Have Missed
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced Monday morning that their COVID-19 vaccine has proven more than 90% effective in phase 3 clinical trials in protecting people against coronavirus infection, compared to a placebo injection. Pfizer says the vaccine, developed...
