By Amanda Sealy and John Bonifield, CNN (CNN) — A new report published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Wednesday suggests that Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine can protect people against concerning new coronavirus variants, including one first seen in South Africa called B.1.351. For the study, researchers at Pfizer …
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President Joe Biden has picked a former Obama administration official to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The agency oversees government health insurance programs covering more than 1 out of 3 Americans and is a linchpin of the health care system. If confirmed by …
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A POSTAL service has reassured residents deliveries will not be impacted after more than a dozen employees were told to self-isolate after a case of Covid-19. Royal Mail’s delivery office, in Oxford Road, Clacton, has recently recorded one positive case of coronavirus and 16 people are now having to quarantine. …
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Share Tweet Share Share Share Email Klaus Hommels, founder of venture capital firm Lakestar, launched a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) on Wed. (Feb. 17), Lakestar SPAC I SE, with the goal of buying a tech company in Europe. The Luxembourg-based SPAC will list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under …
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A full-time COVID-19 vaccination site opened on the campus of Santa Ana College Wednesday, Feb. 17, to target doses at residents – for now seniors – living in some of Orange County’s neighborhoods hit hardest by the coronavirus. Orange County has been operating “Super PODs” (points of dispensing) at Disneyland …
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COVID-19 has left parts of Southend battling against long post delays with a mum revealing she now has to order medication a month in advance. Thousands of residents have battled delays with at least four Southend postcodes impacted, Melanie Starbrook, from Shoebury, orders her regular medication from Pharmacy2U, delivered by …
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Splatoon 3 could be great, but it’s not a 2021 game. Nintendo/screenshot by CNET The latest Nintendo Direct was full of raised expectations for big games, but mostly it was third-party games (aside from Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD and Mario Golf). But one big franchise is …
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Splatoon 3 is coming to Nintendo Switch. As the final game announced during Nintendo’s Nintendo Direct presentation on Wednesday, there wasn’t much shown beyond a trailer featuring an early character creation scene and some melancholic shots of ruined cityscapes — which hint at some possible single-player gameplay in addition to …
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What if our letters and packages arrived at our doors at a minimum carbon footprint? Royal Mail has announced it will deploy technology to 11,000 small vans that will enable to cut emissions and save fuel. The telemetry systems are designed to encourage more fuel-efficient and safer driving styles by monitoring …
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IBM has outlined how a blockchain-based digital health “passport” could allow society to reopen without the need to expose our private medical data. After a year of lockdowns, millions of cases worldwide, and both social and economic devastation, COVID-19 continues to make its presence known. Thanks to the efforts of …
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