DECEMBER 8, 2020
Dr. James Phillips, the emergency room physician who publicly criticized President Trump's decision to drive with Secret Service agents to greet supporters while he was hospitalized with COVID-19 in October, has been removed from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center's schedule starting in January, according to sources familiar with the situation.
Phillips is chief of disaster medicine at...
DECEMBER 8, 2020
A nurse at the Royal Free Hospital in London simulating the administration of Pfizer’s vaccine during a training session last week. - Pool photo by Yui Mok
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech provides strong protection against Covid-19 within about 10 days of the first dose, according to documents published on Tuesday...
DECEMBER 8, 2020
CARDIFF, Wales — The U.K. became the first Western country to start distributing a Covid-19 vaccine to its population, rolling out a mass inoculation program that could provide a template for other countries, including the U.S., of the practicalities and potential pitfalls of vaccinating at speed and scale.
Less than a week after Britain granted emergency-use authorization for...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
BENGALURU: The Thierry Delaporte-led Wipro is spreading some early New Year cheer. The Bengaluru-based firm is rolling out hikes for eligible employees in the junior band (B3 and below) effective January 1. Employees up to the B3 band comprise 80% of its 1.8 lakh employees. All eligible employees at the mid-level (C1 band and above) will receive...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Britain will begin roll-out of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday to start vaccinating its general population against the novel coronavirus. Just a day before Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine roll-out in the UK, a senior official said India is accelerating its review of coronavirus vaccines developed by Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca to authorise them...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro knowingly violated the law when he criticized then-presidential candidate Joe Biden earlier this year in television appearances and on social media while in his official capacity as a government employee, according to federal investigators.
In a report released on Monday, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, a permanent office...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
Some homeowners in one Maryland neighborhood have been told to prepare to leave their homes as the retaining wall supporting some of their houses has failed, threatening collapse at any moment.
The retaining wall built to support houses in the Tantallon community in Fort Washington is shifting every time it rains.
“Every time it rains, it drops more and...
DECEMBER 7, 2020
The White House is pushing back on a New York Times report that it had the opportunity to buy far more doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine this summer but declined, meaning Pfizer might not be able to provide more than the initial deal until June.
A senior administration official told reporters Monday that the New York Times...
DECEMBER 6, 2020
A barricade in April in Wuhan, China, where the coronavirus emerged, meant to keep people out of a residential compound. Noel Celis/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The mild-mannered German scientist never anticipated becoming a Chinese propaganda star.
But Alexander Kekulé, the director of the Institute for Biosecurity Research in Halle, Germany, has been all over the state-run...
DECEMBER 6, 2020
President- elect Joe Biden holds a virtual meeting Friday with leaders of counties across the country. - Demetrius Freeman/TWP
When President-elect Joe Biden put his weight behind a coronavirus aid package recently, it energized an effort that had seemed dead and nudged political adversaries to the bargaining table, with success now looking far more likely.
President Trump, meanwhile, spent...
