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Vaccines effective vs variants despite diminished antibodies; kids may be as contagious as adults
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The following is a roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus. Vaccines protect against variants despite diminished antibodies The one-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and the two-dose vaccine from (More…)
Heat wave drives U.S. West power prices to highest since February freeze
(Reuters) – Extreme heat expected to blanket the U.S. West next week caused power prices for Monday to soar to their highest since the February freeze when natural gas pipelines and wind turbines froze in Texas leaving millions without power. High temperatures will reach the low 90s F (about 34 C) in Los Angeles on (More…)
Biden to route U.S. border wall funds to military and construction site clean up
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration will return more than $2 billion in funds allotted under his predecessor Donald Trump to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to the military and devote other remaining money to construction site clean up, the White House budget office said on Friday. The move (More…)
U.S. FDA asks J&J to discard 60 million vaccine doses made at Baltimore plant
Posted June 11, 2021
(Reuters) -The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has asked Johnson & Johnson to discard 60 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine manufactured at a problem-plagued Baltimore factory, the New York Times reported (More...)
U.S. inflation will accelerate if recovery stays on track: Kemp
Posted June 11, 2021
By John Kemp
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices are rising at the fastest rate for several years, as the economy recovers from the coronavirus recession and manufacturing supply chains struggle to (More...)
China’s attacks on ‘foreign forces’ threaten Hong Kong’s global standing -top U.S. envoy
Posted June 11, 2021
By Greg Torode, Anne Marie Roantree and James Pomfret
HONG KONG (Reuters) -The top U.S. diplomat in Hong Kong said the imposition of a new national security law had created an “atmosphere (More...)
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