Minnesota officials announced it has confirmed the first U.S. case of a highly transmissible variant that has been spreading in Brazil in recent weeks. Health experts are concerned that vaccines could be less effective against the so-called Brazil variant.
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End of carouselModerna announced that its vaccine triggered an immune response against the U.K. and South Africa variants, though the efficacy was diminished for the South Africa variant. The company is conducting new trials.
On Monday, Biden suggested the U.S. could vaccinate people at a much faster clip, saying he hopes for 1.5 million per day, up from 1 million per day. “I think with the grace of God . . . we’ll be able to get that to 1.5 million a day,” Biden told reporters.
California health officials have removed regional stay-at-home orders across the state, allowing a return to county-level restrictions.
Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator under Trump, alleged he was receiving statistics — “parallel data” clashing with what she provided him — from someone else.
The Chicago Teachers Union voted to refuse in-person instruction, two weeks after the nation’s third-largest school district called teachers and staff into classrooms and started to lock them out from remote work.
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End of carouselModerna announced that its vaccine triggered an immune response against the U.K. and South Africa variants, though the efficacy was diminished for the South Africa variant. The company is conducting new trials.
On Monday, Biden suggested the U.S. could vaccinate people at a much faster clip, saying he hopes for 1.5 million per day, up from 1 million per day. “I think with the grace of God . . . we’ll be able to get that to 1.5 million a day,” Biden told reporters.
California health officials have removed regional stay-at-home orders across the state, allowing a return to county-level restrictions.
Deborah Birx, coronavirus response coordinator under Trump, alleged he was receiving statistics — “parallel data” clashing with what she provided him — from someone else.
The Chicago Teachers Union voted to refuse in-person instruction, two weeks after the nation’s third-largest school district called teachers and staff into classrooms and started to lock them out from remote work.
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