New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a statement on Friday that the state will only receive 34,900 doses, an 88% drop compared to the previous week. “As has been the case since the beginning of our vaccination effort, the X-factor is supply, supply, supply, […]
ATAI Life Sciences, a Peter Thiel-backed biopharmaceutical company developing psychedelic drugs to treat mental health, has taken a majority stake in U.S. firm Psyber. Psyber is a business that wants to use brain computer interfaces to help treat people with mental health conditions. ATAI, which […]
LONDON — Germany is a step closer to nationwide lockdown Friday as Chancellor Angela Merkel moved to standardize restrictions across the different states. “The infection protection law will be amended to provide the federal state with the necessary power,” a government spokesperson said in Berlin on Friday. The […]
With new guidance following reports of rare blood clots, the global medical community is considering whether it’s possible, and safe, to administer two different vaccine candidates to the same person. This week the European Medicines Agency and the U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency […]
Wealthy countries have received the vast majority of the world’s supply of Covid-19 vaccine doses, while poor countries have obtained less than 1%, the World Health Organization said at a press briefing Friday. Of the 700 million vaccine doses that have been distributed across the […]
“Because we are seeing so many cases a day, our public health system is overwhelmed. We are not able to get information on many cases, nor are we able to identify their close contacts. We don’t know where all the cases or outbreaks are, and […]
The U.S. is seeing increasing reports of Covid-19 cases linked to youth sports, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Friday. The connection between youth sports and increased coronavirus cases comes as the highly infectious B.1.1.7 variant first identified in the […]
In August, Neuralink conducted a live demo of its technology on three pigs. An audience was shown real-time neural signals from one of the pigs, which Musk named Gertrude. Headquartered in San Francisco, Neuralink ultimately wants to increase the rate at which information can flow […]
The overall blood clot risk has been estimated at around one in 250,000, and British policymakers and health experts have rushed to defend the vaccine in recent days. Welford noted that despite the company’s “remarkable successes” in gaining regulatory approval and ramping up manufacturing of […]
One in five Americans are fully vaccinated, according to the latest data published on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website Thursday afternoon. A third of the population has received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. The U.S. is currently administering a […]
