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Novavax announced Monday that its COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373, demonstrated 90.4 percent efficacy overall in its Phase 3 trial. In a press release on Monday, Stanley C. Erck—Novavax’s president and CEO—said the newly announced trial results sets up the company as “one step closer” to addressing the global need for additional COVID-19 vaccine options. “These clinical […]
A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been accused of deleting video footage which allegedly showed her assaulting a man during an arrest two years ago, CBS Los Angeles reports. Nicole Bell, 27, is accused of assaulting the man while he sat in the back of a patrol car after responding to a call in the city of Lancaster […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is again reminding Americans of the importance of securing high vaccination numbers when it comes to the fight against variants. During a press conference on Tuesday, Fauci turned the proceedings to a topic he said has gained “a lot more attention” in recent days, i.e. variants. More specifically, Fauci pointed to the […]
Health officials in Michigan have confirmed the state’s first human case of Sin Nombre hantavirus, an illness you can catch from rodents (specifically from their urine, saliva, or poop) but not from other people. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) an adult woman had to go to the hospital for a serious pulmonary illness […]
In what authorities are describing as an “overhand” throw that “wasn’t a nice underhand handoff,” a Florida man reportedly tossed a baby at police after a car chase and is now facing felony charges. Police say the man, John Henry James III, chucked a two-month-old at authorities from six feet away and is facing charges for aggravated child abuse […]
The U.S. managing to meet President Biden’s July 4 vaccine goal is now a “very unlikely” outcome, per a new report detailing the current patterns in vaccination data nationwide. Per the results of a week-long analysis from the Washington Post, the U.S. is currently averaging less than one million shots each day, which marks a decline […]
Facebook said Friday that Donald Trump will remain suspended from the platform until at least 2023. In a lengthy statement shared by Nick Clegg, Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs, the Oversight Board’s decision in May to uphold Trump’s suspension was mentioned. At the time, the board also recommended that the site make a number of […]
Mike Pence, the former VP who’s perhaps most known for his alleged tendency to call his wife “mother,” said Thursday he doesn’t know if he and Donald Trump will “ever see eye-to-eye” when it comes to the fatal Capitol riot. Speaking at a Republican event in New Hampshire on Thursday, per the Associated Press, Pence looked […]
Paxton Smith initially planned to address media consumption in her high school valedictorian speech; but she secretly scrapped those plans to address an issue she believed was much more pressing: women’s reproductive rights. Smith, who is part of the Lake Highlands High School Class of 2021, had reportedly submitted her original remarks to school administrators ahead of […]
Joe Biden made history Tuesday by becoming the first sitting president to participate in the commemoration events for the Tulsa Race Massacre. The attack, which took place 100 years ago, is considered one of the bloodiest episodes of racist violence in American history. Between May 31 and June 1, 1921, a white mob descended on the affluent […]
