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Drugmaker Pfizer said Monday an early look at data from its coronavirus vaccine shows it is more than 90% effective — a much better than expected efficacy if the trend continues.
The so-called interim analysis looked at the first 94 confirmed cases of Covid-19 among the more than 43,000 volunteers who got either two doses of the vaccine or a placebo.
On Monday afternoon, President Donald Trump fired his secretary of defense, Mark Esper, via tweet.
Which, well, wasn’t terribly surprising. Esper had been on Trump’s naughty list for months — ever since he opposed using the military to crack down on sometimes-violent protests that broke out in major American cities following the death of George Floyd in May.
Putin Xi and other strongmen haven’t congratulated Biden yet Their silence speaks volumes. Congratulations have been pouring in for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris from leaders around the world — but not all have been forthcoming in acknowledging the projected victors of the 2020 US presidential election.
Among the notable holdouts are the strongmen who President Donald Trump has cozied up to and heaped praise upon over the last four years.
Biden plans executive actions that would undo Trump’s policies. President-elect Joe Biden has pledged to reassert the United States’ leadership role on the global stage through a series of day-one executive actions that would mark a drastic turn from outgoing President Donald Trump’s policies.
Now that Biden has defeated Trump, his transition team is beginning to turn his campaign-trail promises into plans he can implement early in his presidency.
Tight race taking shape in critical Florida as Trump and Biden wait on results. A roller coaster battle is unfolding for the critical state of Florida between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden, as counting begins in earnest in a momentous election unfolding amid the worst pandemic in 100 years.
Trump launches frenzied campaign offensive hoping for a turnaround. The next three weeks will likely amount to the busiest of President Donald Trump’s tenure in terms of schedule and travel, pushing the 74-year-old President fresh from his coronavirus hospitalization — which included supplemental oxygen and a fever — into a frenzied final campaign offensive.
The commission organizing general election debates will allow Mike Pence to participate without plexiglass barriers around him at Wednesday’s contest after the vice president’s team objected to their planned use, a member of the debate commission tells CNN. But Kamala Harris and the debate moderator will be allowed to erect barriers separating them from the vice president.
Trump renews climate fight in visit to fire-ravaged West Coast. For weeks, President Donald Trump was largely silent on the wildfires that have charred more than 3.3 million acres in California, triggered Oregon officials to prepare for a potential “mass fatality incident,” and created apocalyptic orange skies and clouds raining ash that have drifted across cities throughout the West Coast.
Task force reports show dire reality despite Trump’s positive messaging. As President Donald Trump was painting a positive picture of the coronavirus pandemic and urging states to reopen the nation’s businesses and schools, data from the White House coronavirus task force released Monday shows he was getting increasingly dire reports about the spread of the pandemic in July and August.
One shot of coronavirus vaccine likely won’t be enough . When a coronavirus vaccine comes on the market, people will likely need two doses, not just one — and that could cause real problems.
Some of the potential problems are logistical. Difficulties procuring test kits and protective gear throughout the pandemic point to supply chain issues that could also plague distributing double doses of vaccines for an entire country.