Crystal Jones, 52, head of the Athens City Department of Health, loads syringes of the vaccine on the first day of Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine. SOPA pictures | LightRocket | Getty Images LONDON – The European Medicines Agency said Wednesday that the benefits of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine outweigh the risk of side effects…

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…

With U.S. Covid cases rising, the country is also administering vaccination shots at the fastest speed ever. Cases are on the rise in 27 states, with Michigan continuing to lead the nation in daily new infections per capita. US Covid cases After more than 70,000 coronavirus cases reported on Monday, the 7-day average of daily…

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…

A daily record of 4.6 million vaccine doses was reported in the US on Saturday, followed by another 3.6 million vaccinations on Sunday. This brings the daily average of reported doses administered over the past week to 3.1 million. At the same time, the country is reporting 70,000 new coronavirus infections per day, according to…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…