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(Bloomberg) — Moderna Inc. climbed more than 6% in extended trading Thursday after the vaccine maker was named to the S&P 500 Index in one of the most noteworthy additions to the index since Tesla Inc. joined late last year. The company, whose messenger-RNA vaccine has helped to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, will replace Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. in the benchmark U.S. index before the opening of trading on July 21. Alexion is set to be acquired by U.K. drugmaker AstraZeneca Plc. Shares of… Source link

Google is opening up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card, which it calls a COVID Card, on their phone. The feature will initially roll out in the US, and it will rely on support from healthcare providers, local governments, or other organizations authorized to distribute COVID vaccines. The feature will also support storing COVID test results. For vaccinations, your COVID Card will show info on when you were vaccinated and which vaccine you… Source link

Where does your enterprise stand on the AI adoption curve? Take our AI survey to find out. In May during its Google I/O 2021 developer conference, Google demoed multitask unified model (MUM), a system trained on 75 languages at once that can simultaneously understand different forms of information including text, images, and videos.  Today, Google revealed that it’s using MUM to identify variations in the names of COVID-19 vaccines across multiple languages, which the company… Source link

From left: Study volunteer and virologist Joseph Hyser, Chanei Henry, senior research coordinator of molecular virology and microbiology, and Dr. Robert Atmar, the principal investigator on the study. Baylor College of Medicine Scientists in the US are starting a booster shot trial, giving fully vaccinated people another jab. Participants are given a booster shot of the Moderna vaccine – whether they previously got 2 shots of an mRNA vaccine (from Pfizer or Moderna) or 1 adenovirus (J&J)… Source link

In May, the Biden administration reversed course and decided to back the idea of waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines. The move was meant to ensure more of the world can become inoculated. “Extraordinary circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic call for extraordinary measures,” U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai said at the time. David Ricks, CEO of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly (LLY), told Yahoo Finance that “this is a counterproductive move.” “It just… Source link

Novavax (NVAX) will be able to pursue emergency use authorization following new information that shows its COVID-19 vaccine is 90% effective. The company’s authorization, which will likely be filed in the third quarter of this year, would make it the fourth to be available in the U.S. if greenlit by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The Phase 3 trial in the U.S. and Mexico tested the vaccine in 30,000 individuals.It’s most differentiating factor was the presence of all coronavirus… Source link

Yahoo Life Videos The first trans athlete to compete in the NCAA on stopping bills banning trans kids from sports By the time Schuyler Bailar got to high school, he was one of the nation’s top 20 15-year-old breast strokers. By 17, he set a national age-group record. His hard work paid off when he was accepted to join the Harvard swim team in 2013. Bailar had been accepted to the women’s swim team, but after realizing that he was transgender, he had to grapple with possibly losing the… Source link

Time How COVID-19 Is Revolutionizing Health Care Around the World In 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage on and is likely to last well into 2022 and beyond. For ten weeks in a row, from the first week of February, 2021, new daily cases globally rose, driven in part by virus variants and by many countries ending public health measures too soon. Nations like Brazil, Canada, India, Iran, and Turkey—as well as some U.S. states like Michigan and Minnesota—recently experienced… Source link

TipRanks 2 Big Dividend Stocks Yielding 7%; Analysts Say ‘Buy’ Let’s talk about defending your portfolio. It’s a common impulse for most investors, when the economy starts to turn sour. We’re in a growth phase now, with economic activity rebounding strongly from the corona-crisis shutdowns, and with reopening getting into full stride, economists are predicting up to 8% GDP expansion this year. But there are clouds on the horizon. Inflation is rising, and the April jobs report was,… Source link

Fact check: If you get the COVID vaccine, could you lose insurance coverage? More than 167 million Americans have received at least their first dose of the COVID vaccine, according to the Centers for Disease Control. But some people are still reluctant to take the shot, whether because of its hasty development and rollout or general qualms about vaccines. Another factor causing trepidation for some is the question of whether taking the vaccine will impact health and life insurance… Source link