In keeping with Moderna, the shot is 90% efficient 6 months after the second dose

A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a pop-up vaccination facility operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in New York on January 29, 2021. Facebook Facebook Logo Log in to Facebook to connect with Mike Segar Reuters Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine was more than 90% effective …

The FDA stops utilizing Johnson & Johnson Covid’s vaccine on account of uncommon blood clotting issues in six girls

Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vial and box at a vaccination site. Despite a small number of people who have experienced side effects, including blood clots, doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are being given across the state of Florida. Paul Hennessy | LightRocket | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it …

CDC chief says vaccination alone will not cease Michigan Covid surge

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer receives a dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine at Ford Field during an event to encourage Michigan residents to receive the vaccine on April 6, 2021 in Detroit, Michigan. Matthew Hatcher | Getty Images A senior health official in the Biden government said Monday Michigan should “shut things down” as it grapples …

ATAI has a majority stake within the start-up Psyber for brain-computer interfaces

ATAI Life Sciences, a Peter Thiel-supported biopharmaceutical company developing psychedelics for the treatment of mental health, has acquired a majority stake in the US company Psyber. Psyber is a company that wants to use brain-computer interfaces to treat people with mental illness. ATAI, calling itself a drug development platform, was founded to acquire, incubate, and …

Elon Musk’s Neuralink exhibits a video of monkeys enjoying pong with their minds

Jeff Miller / University of Wisconsin-Madison Neuralink, the brain-machine interface company founded by Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has released a YouTube video of a macaque monkey named Pager playing the Pong video game with his mind. The 3-minute 27-second video that Musk shared on Twitter late Thursday appears to show the monkey controlling a …

Analysts level to promising pipeline regardless of Covid vaccine jitter

A healthcare worker prepares to inject a vaccine against AstraZeneca coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Eloisa Lopez The AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine controversy has sparked some investor concerns about its stock, according to Jefferies – but it’s not all bad news for the UK pharmaceutical company. Australia, the Philippines and the African Union have either contained or abandoned …

5 issues to know earlier than the inventory market opens on Friday April ninth

Here are the top news, trends, and analysis that investors need to get their trading day started: 1. Stocks relatively flat after another S&P 500 record high People are seen on Wall Street in front of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City on March 19, 2021. Brendan McDermid | Reuters US …

Are you able to mix Covid vaccines? This is what we all know to date

With new guidelines following reports of rare blood clots, the global medical community is evaluating whether it is possible and safe to give two different vaccine candidates to the same person. This week, the European Medicines Agency and the UK Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Agency found a possible link between the AstraZeneca University Oxford …