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There have been more than 1,200 cases of a rare heart inflammation condition in people who received Pfizer‘s or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to a CDC presentation slide published Wednesday ahead of an advisory meeting. The CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is holding a meeting to discuss rare, but higher-than-expected, reports of myocarditis or pericarditis in 16- to-24-year-olds...

A key CDC advisory panel is holding a meeting Wednesday to discuss rare, but higher-than-expected, reports of heart inflammation in young people.

A CDC panel is holding a meeting to discuss rare reports of heart inflammation in young people after receiving their second Covid vaccine dose.

Fauci said the variant has a doubling time of about two weeks and currently accounts for 20% newly diagnosed infections in the U.S.

Delta, first identified in India, now makes up about 20% of all new cases in the United States, up from 10% about two weeks ago, Fauci said.

The 55 million vaccine doses are the remaining portion of 80 million shots President Joe Biden has committed to donating abroad.

Delta has the potential “to be more lethal because it’s more efficient in the way it transmits between humans,” the WHO’s Dr. Mike Ryan said.

“The data is clear: If you are unvaccinated, you’re at risk of getting seriously ill or dying or spreading it,” Biden said from the White House.

The German biotech’s initial public offering was priced Thursday night at $15 per share, the high end of the expected range.

New Jersey met its goal of fully vaccinating more than 4.7 million people two weeks early, Gov. Phil Murphy said Friday.

Covid-19 variant delta, first identified in India, is becoming the dominant variant of the disease worldwide, the WHO’s chief scientist said Friday.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb warned about the potential long-term effects of Covid and pointed to a new study that suggests brain tissue is being destroyed.

Federal health officials keep pushing for more Americans to get vaccinated as the delta variant accounts for a bigger share of new cases in the United States.

The U.S. is investing $3.2 billion to advance the development of antiviral pills to treat Covid-19 and other viruses that have pandemic potential.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren pressed a major pharma trade group on its lobbying efforts against a proposal to waive intellectual property rights for Covid vaccines.

New York will lift most of its Covid-19 restrictions after the state reached an adult vaccination rate of 70%, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. Once a global Covid hotspot, the state now has one of the lowest positivity rates in the U.S. More than 11.1 million of the state’s residents have been vaccinated with at least one shot and about 9.8…

The WHO is also tracking recent reports of a “delta plus” variant that has an additional mutation, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s Covid-19 technical lead.

Reports of new Covid cases have decreased in every region of the world except Africa, where weekly cases jumped 44% while fatalities rose 20%.

The late-stage clinical trial found high prevalence of virus variants.

A 70-year-old man from Rhode Island on Wednesday was the first to receive an infusion outside of a clinical trial of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm.